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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life-her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline-grow deeper. When Hollis hears about something...
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Most of us would do anything to love and be loved; we can't deny it. But what if this desire was so strong it single-handedly led us into a destructive trap that seemed impossible to break free from? When twenty-four-year-old college graduate, Peri Jones, finds herself falling in love and into a trap, she has to learn, through many of life's trials and victories, how to untangle the mess she is left with. Is it possible to deceive our way into love?...
Author
Series
Magic puppy volume 8
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Julie, the new girl in town, overcomes her loneliness when she befriends and agrees to hide Storm, a magic wolf disguised as an Old English Sheepdog puppy, until he is ready to challenge his pack rival.
Author
Series
Highland grooms volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and she is utterly and unwillingly bewitched. Cailean...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A broken heart can feel like the end of the world, but bestselling author and illustrator Amalia Andrade knows this simply isnt true. Change is not a defeat or a surrender, but rather a promise. Because if the "love of your life" doesnt work out, there is always a chance for something new-a new love, or a new life. When Amalia was faced with her own heartbreak, she knew she couldnt let herself get lost in despair. With her sunshiny outlook, electrifying...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This is the classic tale of boy meets girl: Girl...goes home with someone else. Meet Eve. Shes a dreamer, a feeler, a careening well of sensitivities who cant quite keep her feet on the ground, or steer clear of trouble. Shes a laugher, a crier, a quirky and quick-witted bleeding-heart-worrier. Meet Ben. Hes an engineer, an expert at leveling floors who likes order, structure, and straight lines. He doesnt opine, he doesnt ruminate, he doesnt simmer...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four young women's lives intersect in the apartment they've shared in Hell's Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different as they are from one another, the women had become a family by choice. But while their lives had proceeded smoothly in the years they'd lived together, new relationships, job opportunities, and surprising circumstances...
9) Making faces
Author
Publisher
Spencer Hill Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Five young men went off to war, and only one came back. Ambrose Young had been beautiful-- but as a wounded warrior, he faced a loss of identity. To Fern Taylor, he had been so beautiful that he was someone she could never have. Can friendship overcome heartache? There is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.
10) Koula
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
At its heart, Koula is the story of an improbable love affair. It is the story of Koula, a middle-aged married woman who falls in love with a young man that she meets routinely on the subway ride home to her husband and kids. Attracted to older women (in fact, he occasionally accepts money to sleep with them), the young man in question introduces Koula to a different life than she's used to, a life filled with cigarettes, seedy bars, and illicit meetings...
12) Season of love
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A witty, glittering rom-com about finding the courage to face your past and learning what it truly means to return home, perfect for fans of Jenny Bayliss and Alexandra Bellefleur. Artist Miriam Blum has her decoupaged glitter ducks perfectly lined up. Only for one phone call to bring her whole life all crashing down. Her beloved and eccentric great-aunt has just died-leaving her part-owner of the only Jewish-owned Christmas tree farm in the country....
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 11
Publisher
Bregdan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Carrie, Moses and Rose, Jeremy and Marietta, Thomas and Abby, and Janie continue to struggle to rebuild their lives as the nation struggles with post-Civil War realities.
14) Party poopers
Author
Series
Rotten School volume 9
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Ecch is determined to go out with Bernie Bridges, but when they're both invited to the All-Night party Bernie comes up with a plan that will finally make her stop pursuing him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Britt-Marie can't stand mess. When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband, she finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, and layabouts. Most alarming of all, she's given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory. In this small town of big-hearted misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?"--
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When one of their tightly-knitted group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who knows their secrets.
18) Ghost Knight
Author
Publisher
Playaway/Listening Library/Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft and new friend Ella summon the ghost of Sir William Longspee, who may be able to protect Jon from a group of ghosts that threaten him with harm soon after he arrives at Salisbury Cathedral's boarding school.
Author
Publisher
Switch Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Freshman year, Eddie Ashford had it all. Friends, parties, Taco Bell. He enjoyed it, reveled in it even. And he flunked out. Now he wants to redeem himself. Has to. He takes a job in tiny Kusko, Alaska, and promises to stay a year. His intentions are pure, but soon he's lonely, low on cash, and desperate to escape the tundra. In this rough, raw, harrowing, and hilarious story, Eddie's life becomes a dogsled ride along a line between youth and experience,...
Author
Series
Deep freeze volume 1
Publisher
EPIC Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The earth has frozen. Governments have fallen apart. Infrastructure has crumbled. What is left of San Diego struggles to survive. The kids of Samuel S. Fornland Boardinghouse have nothing holding them back now, except that they have nowhere to run, and no way to get there. In a last-ditch effort to escape the city, fifteen-year-old James Rives and sixteen-year-old Abe Williams find an abandoned cruise ship in the harbor. They believe they have what...