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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Don't let the white man take the house." These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom, their ancestral home and 200 acres of land, from a development company, who has their sights set on turning the valuable waterfront property into a luxury resort. While fighting to save the Kingdom, the siblings must also save themselves from the secrets they've...
2) Cannery Row
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years. When...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Summer won't last forever. Sage Byrd has lived in the coastal town of Spunes, Oregon (not to be confused with Forks, Washington) her entire life. She's learned to love her small world, with the misfit animals on her hobby farm, and her friendships with the town's inhabitants. But when her 5-year relationship ends and her ex, town-golden-boy Ian, suddenly gets engaged, Sage needs a win - something that will convince everyone to stop pitying her all...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother's legacy. On the night of Maren's annual New Year's Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It's a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power-and a trigger...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Now that both of Emily Hung's younger sisters have gotten hitched, her mother has turned the full focus of her matchmaking onto Emily--and the 33-year-old writer-slash-barista doesn't know how much more she can take. At her sister's wedding, Emily's mother pushes her at sweater vest-wearing family friend Mark Chan, forcing the two to make awkward small talk. Though Emily acknowledges that Mark, a successful engineer, is handsome, she insists that...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and--though she's strangely guarded--Nayan can't help but be drawn to her. He hasn't risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years earlier. In the wake of the tragedy, Nayan's labor union, long a cornerstone of his community, became the center of his life: a way for him to channel...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1953, and for Nick Taylor, WWII veteran turned company lawyer, oil is the key to the future. He takes the train into the city for work and returns to the peaceful streets of the suburbs and to his wife, Bet, former codebreaker now housewife, and their two children, Katherine and Harry. Nick comes from humble origins but thanks to his work for American Oil, he can provide every comfort for his family, including Last House, a secluded country escape....
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When their beloved grandma Nan dies, sisters Kit and Claire O'Neill must empty out her house in suburban New York. In the attic (where else?), Kit discovers artifacts revealing their grandmother's hidden life as a young movie star in Hollywood. Kit, now a cable news producer, and Claire were raised by Nan after their parents died. Stunned by what she's uncovered, Kit vows to learn how Nebraska-bred Edith Stoppelmoor became Tinseltown's Mercy Welles...and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jolene Smith doesn't fit in at work. She doesn't socialize with her co-workers or even engage in small talk--in fact, she's pretty sure they're all making fun of her behind her back. Jolene takes out her frustration by writing her real thoughts ("Deep in my core, I find you insufferable") at the end of her emails in white text, so they're invisible to the recipients--but when she forgets to change the text color in a diatribe against a co-worker who...
12) The limits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her teenage daughter to live with her ex-husband in New York. By the time fifteen-year-old Pia arrives at her father Stephen's luxury apartment in Manhattan and meets his new, younger wife, Kate, she has been shuttled between her parents' disparate lives--her father's consuming work as a surgeon at an overwhelmed...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 17
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Approached in the park by a shadowy figure, Angus Lordie is mistaken for a journalist and becomes privy to some controversial plans of the Scottish Parliament--but just what is he meant to do about it? At school, a new member of Bertie's class, Galactica MacFee, quickly comes between Bertie and Olive, leaving him no choice but to skip town. And the indomitable Irene finds herself yet again in Edinburgh . . . but this time there might be romance in...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in the springtime of 2011, how can she imagine it might bring her estranged dad, Ethan, crashing back into her life? Ethan is an ex-con and recovering addict who even in his more honest moments has difficulty seeing outside himself. But now he's starting to fear that Jolie's in the kind of trouble her mom, Sarah, could never understand. Convinced that he is the only one who can save...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It’s the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike everywhere they go. But that’s not the only reason Diamond stands out: she’s teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop’s been gone, she is the only Black person in all of Swift River. This summer, Ma is determined to declare Pop legally dead so that they can collect his...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ever since she was a child, Anuri's life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother. Now an adult, she's finally broken free. But when her stepmother starts preying on her young half sister, Anuri decides she must stop the cycle of abuse.
17) 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...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Georgia rents her country home for the month of August, it’s off to the relaxing Connecticut shore for her; her husband, Tom; and their young daughter. It’s just what they need to ease family tensions and reconnect. All that’s left to do is leave behind their house keys—to a stranger. For Anna, Georgia and Tom’s house in the cool woodlands is a dream break from the oppressive heat of a New York City summer—and from an increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In The Bottoms, tiny Cotswold villages on the English countryside, filthy rich Tata Hawkins is in a tizzy when her husband runs off with a bikini designer; her glamorous new neighbor, an American divorcaee, refuses her overtures at friendship; and her twobest friends are distracted by their own problems.
Author
Series
Summer Beach volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Jones was gobsmacked to learn who her real father was, and she's spending the summer on Highland Beach, outside of Annapolis, to get to know him better. Olivia wants to lay low--CJ, her father, is the mayor, and, besides, she doesn't want strangers in her personal life--but that's impossible in the tight-knit beach enclave. An anonymous Facebook post outs Olivia, so she hightails it to Sag Harbor and the comfort of her boyfriend, Garrett, and...
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