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Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong--if at times codependent--friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the women co-own a weathered beachfront home, comother a rescued shelter pup and have inadvertently centered their lives around each other. Jess is clever and driven with a lucrative career running her own real estate brokerage. Magnetic but aimless, Ren has been making margaritas at the same local dive and teaching dance...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a...
4) Wonderland
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his life spared but his world torn apart. Orphaned after watching his father murder his entire family, Jesse embarks on a personal odyssey that...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
For Piglet -- an unshakable childhood nickname -- getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss -- effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding ... But if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is. Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the facade Piglet has created. It has the power to strip her of the life she has so carefully built,...
Author
Publisher
Black Odyssey Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Unable to remember his life after a tragic accident, Dante Williams, in the care of his beautiful, successful and loyal wife, Sade, secretly starts digging up the past in hopes of recovering his memory, but instead finds something more sinister at play when Sade plans to honor her vows until death.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, arrives. documenting his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie, three mothers, amidst backstabbing, jealousy, disappointment and triumph, reveal the sacrifices they've made for their children, for friendship and for art.
9) Thorn tree
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Now in his late-sixties, Daniel lives in quiet anonymity in a converted guest cottage in the Hollywood Hills. A legendary artist, he's known for one seminal work-Thorn Tree-a hulking, welded, scrap metal sculpture that he built in the Mojave desert in the 1970s. The work emerged from tragedy, but building it kept Daniel alive and catapulted him to brief, reluctant fame in the art world. Daniel is neighbors with Celia, a charismatic but fragile actress....
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her husband Adam's death, Sarah, with a daughter and a baby on the way-and left with no money-moves in with Adam's mother, whom he always said was dead, but soon discovers why Adam lied as she becomes trapped in a house with a madwoman.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca, the daughter of a German high school teacher who was forced to work as a gravedigger after immigrating to upstate New York, begins a life-changing pilgrimage throughout America in the wake of a prejudice-motivated tragedy."--
12) The great fire
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2003].
Language
English
Description
The story of Aldred Leith, a decorated British war veteran, who is travelling through postwar Asia while writing a book.
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informático en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnológica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that's missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own. But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a six-month sentence for a violent crime, which she did commit but does not regret. Expected to visit with a racist psychologist and perform her apologies, Salomé refuses to atone. But even if Salomé could get home, it would be no refuge: her father has recently been diagnosed...
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The desire for relevance -- and to save his marriage -- is ultimately what pushed Peter Cook to leave his beloved Alaska for the prestigious Parker College. Lured by the chance to work with his childhood political idol turned college president, Peter moves his family to Portland, Oregon to help promote his hero's fundraising initiative that would eliminate financial status from the college's admissions process. Peter arrives on campus as the Great...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her elderly mother falls under the spell of a handyman who's a little too kind, a little too involved, Connie, when he moves in, finds her desperate attempts to unmask him leaving her wondering if she's lost her grip on reality-and if that's been his plan all along.
19) Watch it burn
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Three women investigate the death of a high-profile local woman in a small Southern town, and when they find a connection to a cultish personal development group, their discoveries have scorching consequences for the whole community.
20) Jaded
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened-and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name. Jade has become everything she ever wanted to be. Successful lawyer. Dutiful daughter....
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