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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Meet the women of Buckhead--a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competive frienships.
Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she's been unceremoniously dumped by Bryce, her politician husband. When Bryce replaces her with a much younger woman, Shannon sets out to take revenge... Crystal has stepped into Shannon's old shoes. A young, innocent Texan girl, she simply has no idea what she's up against... Olivia has waited years to take...
2) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life, and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe, a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing...
3) The takedown
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Language
English
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Description
"Dee Kwan's secrets for a happy life: Always remain positive, no matter the cost; Realize that every setback is a hidden opportunity; Accept compliments graciously, especially when given by mega-hot rivals; Never, ever question whether any of these mantras actually work. For Dee Kwan, every day is the perfect day. No, really. She has a house she loves, a job she adores, and a ridiculously attractive "nemesis" who never seems to mind when she wins...
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Language
English
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Fourteen contestants, including Mack, a homeless shelter resident who lost everything, embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide-and-seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated.
Author
Series
Emily Wilde volume 1
Language
English
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2024 DMPL Reading Challenge December Bonus Category: Cozy Books
2024 Locus Award Nominees - Best Fantasy Novel
2024 Locus Award Nominees - Best Fantasy Novel
Description
"In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small...
6) No tan lines
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"There's a place where the ocean meets the shores, where kicking off your shoes and baring some skin is as natural as sneaking under the boardwalk for an ice cream cone and stolen kisses. But life isn't all a beach for Shaye Cates, even if her idea of an office is a shady umbrella at the water's edge equipped with cell phone and laptop. Steely-eyed Trace Saunders is the incredibly irksome fly in her coconut tanning oil. And running a kids' softball...
Author
Series
Rabbits novels volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller, detailing an underground alternate reality game, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast. Rabbits is a secret, dangerous, and occasionally fatal underground alternate reality game, where the prizes are unclear but may involve vast sums of money, NSA or CIA recruitment, or perhaps even the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe itself. Since the game first...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious and heartfelt debut novel, an aspiring screenwriter learns sometimes love has its own script. Harry wants nothing more than to write Hollywood screenplays. He knows the first step toward achieving that goal is winning a screenwriting competition that will seal his admission into the college of his dreams, so he's determined to spend his summer free of distractions--also known as boys--and finish his script. After last year, Harry...
10) The quiet room
Author
Series
Rabbits novels volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After nearly winning the eleventh iteration of Rabbits, the mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas, Emily Connors suddenly finds herself trapped in a dimensional stream where the game does not exist. At all. Except . . . why do sinister figures show up to stop her every time she goes looking? Does Rabbits truly not exist, or is it being hidden? And if it's being hidden, why--and by whom? Meanwhile, architect...
12) The Affinities
Author
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After becoming a part of the Tau, one of twenty-two large global network Affinities in the near future, young Adam Fisk thinks his life has improved for the better until the different Affinities begin to go to war with one another -- in a conflict that will change Adam's world forever.
Author
Series
Spikes and spurs volume 6
Language
English
Description
After he takes in an abandoned baby, cowboy Trace Coleman begins to catch the eye of his rodeo rival Gemma O'Donnell.
14) Sigue mi ritmo
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Crystal Chen, influencer de fitness y chica curvy, ha basado su carrera en romper estereotipos, combatir la gordofobia e ignorar a los trolls. Pero tras su última ruptura, ya no tiene ganas de aguantar a los hombres, así que busca consuelo en el gimnasio, su lugar seguro. Aquí entra en escena Scott Ritchie, bombero y ladrón del material deportivo favorito de Crystal. Las chispas saltan entre estos enemigos ultra competitivos mientras luchan por...
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Language
English
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Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship... until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past...
Author
Series
Neog volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The crew of Zuma's Ghost has won the Boarding Games for the second straight year. The crew feels unstoppable, until their leaders decide to retire and they get a new commander.
17) Exes and foes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Long-time rivals Emma and Caleb find themselves both chasing Juliet and decide to compete for her affection, but Juliet is more interested in hanging out with both of them, which leads to complicated feelings and the reopening of old wounds from their tumultuous past.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Alicia is a tech giant, wealthy beyond compare. Kelly is a stay-at-home mother and Stanford legacy. Maren makes three: single, broke, and out of place among the rich and elite. All their daughters are natural choices for Stanford: except the school can only recommend one student. As the competition heats up, an attempt is made on one of the girl's lives and the community spirals into panic. Now the mothers have to decide if one of them is capable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Shiloh Bellamy can hardly believe it-for the first time in her family farm's seventy-year history, she has managed to score a highly coveted booth at the Cherry Farm Market in Traverse City, Michigan. It's a huge win in her master plan to bring the run-down farm back to life...and the fact that her coup has sent her next-door neighbor and organic farming competitor into fits of jealousy doesn't hurt either. But the festive atmosphere at the farm...
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