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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Presents the stories of four individuals whose lives are irrevocably shaped by the pull and spirits of the water, from Owen, who believes his younger sister was stolen by merfolk in childhood; to abused orphan Naomi, who escapes into the ocean while harboring a powerful secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The story begins in the 1950s with 16-year-old Helen Jean, who becomes pregnant after the death of her beloved mother. It's not the first time; Helen Jean's cousin Ernestine, knowledgeable in abortifacient home remedies, has aided her before. But now, despite hints that she may have been impregnated by a family member and not the lover she eventually marries, Helen Jean hears an inner voice, "a mouth inside her trying to crawl its way out," beseeching...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Angela Constantine is a girl born broken. When Angela was young, before she came to realize she had a rare ability, she was a rather ordinary girl. At least, that was what everyone said. But Angela is anything but ordinary. The daughter of a meth addict, she is convinced she was born a freak. Haunted by an abusive childhood, she was forced to become a woman far too soon. And in the process, she became more. Angela Constantine has a secret life. Angela...
9) The boys
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Having fled conflict in the former-Soviet Republic of Georgia as children, Saba and his brother have fought to make peace with the past. In particular, they struggle with the sacrifices of a mother who remained in a war zone so that their father could get them out. Now, years later, the brothers are young adults, their mother is dead, and their father has been lured back to their beautiful, decaying homeland - only to disappear. Then Saba's older...
Author
Series
Indian Lake volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
You won't find a more hardcore eighties slasher fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And you won't find a place less supportive of girls who wear torn T-shirts and too much eyeliner than Proofrock, nestled eight thousand feet up the mountain in Idaho, situated in Pleasant Valley right alongside Indian Lake, home to both Camp Blood -- site of a massacre fifty years ago --and, as of this summer, Terra Nova, a second-home celebrity Camelot being...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rowan McNamara doesn't open the door to her new life--she's thrown through it. Following an explosive argument with her abusive fiancée, Rowan runs. With no family except for her estranged sister, Celia, Rowan takes refuge in an idyllic New England town. There, she meets Gabriel, the eleven-year-old son of her neighbor, Lee. Lee is welcoming, friendly, and a little too helpful. But Gabriel is a mystery: withdrawn, often bruised, and only willing...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls "razor sharp," a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when she draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a bad father,...
14) The wall
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Random House published the first English translation of H.G. Adler's The Journey in 2008, literary critics and historians alike came to recognize Adler as a neglected modern master, comparing him to Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, and Gertrude Stein. Told in apowerful stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our finest modernist writers, The Wall is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the past...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
16) Final target
Author
Series
Wind dancer volume 4
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Melissa Delgado is off on an incredible adventure from Washington to Amsterdam to Paris in an attempt to recover the Wind Dancer, a priceless gold statue that has been stolen.
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