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1) Homecoming
Author
Series
The 100 series volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Humanity is coming home. Weeks after landing on Earth, the hundred have managed to create a sense of order amid their wild, chaotic surroundings. But their delicate balance comes crashing down with the arrival of new dropships from space. These new arrivals are the lucky ones--back on the Colony, the oxygen is almost gone--but after making it safely to Earth, Glass's luck seems to be running out. Clarke leads a rescue party to the crash site, ready...
2) Homecoming
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the only way forward is the road that takes you home. Eleanor is back in Ireland after a lifetime in New York. Actress Megan is seeking anonymity from a tabloid scandal. Rae, manager of the local café, is hiding secrets of her own. Connie has an abundance of blessings-- and a deep-seated loneliness. As their lives intertwine, they learn that finding your way can lead to the last place you expected.
Author
Series
Thunder Point novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Seth Sileski, whose professional football career ended before it could start, returns to Thunder Point, he struggles to convince his childhood neighbor and best friend Iris McKinley to forgive him for breaking her heart.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rigid moral codes held by mid-twentieth-century preacher Samuel Lake are called into question when his twelve-year-old daughter and his neighbors hide a young boy from his abusive father, a man who lashes out at the community when he learns about the deception.
10) The homecoming
Author
Series
Havenbury volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to resolve her fears, until he finds himself falling for her,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A road map for dismantling the fear and shame that keep you from living a free and authentic life. In the aftermath of stress, disappointment, and trauma, people often fall into survival mode, even while a part of them longs for more. Juggling multiple demands and responsibilities keeps them busy, but not healed. As a survivor of sexual assault, racism, and evacuation from a civil war in Liberia, Dr. Thema Bryant knows intimately the work involved...
13) The homecoming
Author
Series
Niceville trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere in the American South, there is a town where something is very, very wrong. A place where malicious men may die, but malice ... never. When Carsten Stroud's previous novel, Niceville, was published, Elmore Leonard wrote: "I hope Mr. Stroud, having had so much fun writing Niceville, listening to his people give him terrific dialogue, is writing a sequel or another one like it." We give you The Homecoming. Kate and Nick Kavanaugh (lawyer...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friendsʼ seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take control of a nation riven with factions, dissent and religious strife. Brief though her time in Scotland was, her experience profoundly influenced who she was and what happened to her. In this book,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping case that a new age of local economic growth will reunite place and prosperity, putting to an end to the last half century of globalization-by one of the preeminent economic journalists writing today. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Thomas L. Friedman declared globalization the new economic order in The World Is Flat. But the reign of globalization as we've known it-driven by the United States, China, and big multinational companies-is...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pyper's weird, wonderful, audacious new novel begins simply enough: a man has died, and his family has gathered to hear the reading of his will. Much to the surprise of the man's widow and the couple's children, they all stand to inherit a sizable fortune, but there's one, rather odd condition. From this first small indication that The Homecoming will be no ordinary family drama, the story--walking a line between thriller and horror--descends, at...
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