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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Nora Mackenzie's entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn't end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it's come back to haunt her. Derek is her first client as an official full-time sports agent and he's holding a grudge. Derek has set his sights on a little friendly revenge. If Nora Mackenzie, the first girl to ever break his heart,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Rock chick volume 10
Publisher
1001 Dark Nights Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In high school, Malia Clark found the man of her dreams. Darius Tucker. But life hits them full in the face way before it ever should. Darius makes a drastic decision to keep his family safe and Malia leaves town with a secret. When Malia returns, she seeks Darius to share all, but Darius finds out before she can tell him. At the same time, she finds out just how much Darius has changed in the years she's been away. She just refuses to give up on...
5) 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
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Embarking on an epic cross-country road trip to scatter her mom's ashes at her chosen resting place, Coyote and her dad have an unforgettable adventure, picking up some old friends and discovering some new ones along the way.
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
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...
9) 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
Series
Guncle volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Patrick O'Hara is back. It's been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant's caretaker after their mother's passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by, and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world... professionally. Some things have had to take a back seat. Looking...
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
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
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nick and Bet raise their children, Harry and Katherine, in 1950s America. Nick, strictly raised Mennonite, is a WWII veteran, attorney for American Oil, and kind, honest, and patriotic, the definition of conscientious. Bet is a Vassar grad nursing regrets as a housewife. Carter Weston, with the newly formed CIA, involves Nick in returning the shah to power in Iran, which benefits American oil interests. Years later, Katherine, willful and selfish,...
15) 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
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
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goal--to run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the cusp of success. But in one disastrous night, Georgia loses her sous-chef position, her French boyfriend, and her sense of taste! Renowned for her refined palate and daring use of bold flavors to create remarkable dishes, Georgia is devastated to discover her culinary gift has simply...vanished. When...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal. Still, she is left a modest remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices...
19) The summer swap
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Cecilia Lapthorne always vowed she'd never go back to Dune Cottage. So no one is more surprised than Cecilia to find herself escaping her seventy-fifth birthday party to return to the remote Cape Cod cottage-a place filled with memories. Some are good-especially memories of the early days with her husband, volatile artist Cameron. But then there are the memories she has revealed to no one. After dropping out of medical school, aspiring artist Lily...
Author
Series
Moonlight Harbor volume 8
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Leaving Seattle and her cheating husband behind, single mother Karissa moves to Puget Sound where she meets her new neighbors, who are also dealing with their own crises, and together they start a book club as a distraction until it becomes a way to build a better life together.
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