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1) Hard girls
Author
Series
Jane and Lila Pool volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating mother-in-law,) and a quiet-if-unfulfilling administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents’ secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild....
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Capt. Eva Innocente and her small but talented crew traverse the galaxy in her beloved ship, La Sirena Negra, completing cargo runs for various clients. Eva may be a little rough around the edges, but who can blame her when her story begins with a shady customer ditching her with a cargo of troublemaking psychic cats (no, really) and no payment. But when Eva is contacted by a representative of the Fridge, a shadowy crime organization that has kidnapped...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling as she once thought. Thankfully, Eddie has the perfect excuse for a vacation: Her hardworking younger sister, Barrett, is opening her gift shop on Memorial Day weekend, and could use all the help she can get. But going home...
Author
Series
Flame and sparrow duology volume 1
Publisher
S.M. Gaither
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her twentieth birthday, Karys woke to the sight of a divine creature dying outside her home. Two weeks later, her sister disappeared, leaving nothing but a trail of blood in her wake. Convinced the gods were responsible for the disappearance, Karys has spent the past five years plotting her revenge with the help of a cutthroat band of like-minded elven rebels. So when Dravyn-one of her world's most powerful deities-descends upon her...
Author
Series
Curious realities volume 1
Publisher
Enclave Escape
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene--the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality. Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year's annual--and often deadly--Wonderland Trials. Now she has less than twenty-four...
Author
Series
Sweet Valley twins the graphic novel volume 4
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica think the Mercandy mansion is haunted and that new student Nora Mercandy might be a witch, but Elizabeth wants to find out if the rumors are true.
Author
Series
Thea Stilton volume 36
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Thea Sisters are going to New Zealand! Their new friend Charlotte wants to show them the sights, and introduce them to Didi, a skeleton of a bird that went extinct many years ago. But when they get to the mouseum, Didi has gone missing! Can they find the stolen skeleton before it is too late?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chelsey Calhoun's life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state--but Ellie's reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers. It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun's sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she's been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
Author
Series
Supernatural singles volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Olive Maxwell much prefers teaching about the supernatural world to taking part in it and leaves the magical shenanigans to her two sisters--the Prima-Apparent and Bounty Hunter-In-Training. But after assigning her college students a project designed to nudge them outside their comfort zones, Olive realizes that she's never once stepped a toe over her own...and it's about time that changed. Her first trip into the unknown? Moving in with her long-time...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Amelia and Kylee, two young sisters, were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teenage cousin Grace, who was babysitting them, vanished from the farmhouse in rural Missouri, leaving behind evidence of a violent struggle. Grace had been on the verge of escaping their dead-end town, the first in their family to go to college instead of getting married and going to work at the meatpacking plant. Her disappearance is a warning to any...
14) A surefire love
Author
Series
Many Oaks volume 1
Publisher
Hope Anchor
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six and guardian to her preteen sister, Blaze is determined to give her sister the stability she never had. Her church is a big part of that plan, until a run-in with an uptight youth pastor derails their progress. Blaze goes toe-to-toe with a man who looked down on her back in high school-and volunteers for his team of youth leaders. A survivor of the wreck that took his high school basketball coach, Anson sacrificed a promising athletic career...
15) Kill her twice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tensions are high in LA's Chinatown in 1932, when politicians campaign to force Chinese Americans from their homes to make way for Union Station. In the midst of these racial tensions, the Chow sisters, May and Gemma, sell flowers to keep their family fed, but things take a dark turn when they stumble upon the dead body of Chinese movie star Lulu Wong. When the police prove their incompetence and racism in dealing with this case, the sisters take...
16) Yumbo gumbo
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Annabelle and her little brother, Beau, cannot decide which kind of gumbo to cook, so Annabelle suggests taking a family vote, but when some family members are not happy with the results, Annabelle comes up with a solution that satisfies everyone. Includes a glossary of Louisiana Creole terms, a cultural note, and math activities for developing data literacy.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother--abused by the family for failing to birth a boy--finds her own small acts of rebellion in the...
Author
Series
Vintage magic mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
With years of experience working for a top New York designer, Madeira Cutler has learned to appreciate the clean line, rich texture, and elegant draping of a finely crafted garment. It's not until Maddie goes home to Mystick Falls, Connecticut, for her sister's wedding, however, that she discovers her understanding of fashion goes much deeper. Before the accessory shopping and fittings can begin, the festivities hit a snag when Maddie finds her sister's...
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