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"A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather's wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks. In the midst of the rising waters, Boyd sets out across the ravaged back country. She is determined to rescue her missing friend, and she's not alone in...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Reverend Geoff Bofinger lost his congregation when Sergeant Jack Mansfield exposed a scandal at his church. With the hope of making a fresh start and restoring their family's good name, Geoff and his wife, Audrey, purchase a failing bakery business. One morning while driving to work, Audrey has a collision and gets out of her car to discover she has hit a scooter. Though the scooter is bloody, there is no victim to be found. The missing victim turns...
Author
Series
Harley Merlin volume 1
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Harley Merlin can sense people's emotions, among other things. It's how she snagged her first job pinpointing cheaters at a casino. But she has no clue where she got these freakish powers because she spent her childhood jumping from home to home in the foster system, and her father left her with nothing more than a cryptic note. Then she crosses paths with a terrifyingly real monster. Which is when a mysterious and annoyingly arrogant...
Author
Series
Harley Merlin volume 2
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A dark past. A hidden power. A dangerous enemy. Harley Merlin has a lot of unanswered questions in her life. What drove her father to kill her mother? How can she know the true extent of her magical abilities? Has Wade Crowley always been this annoying? After the violent gargoyle incident that left many dead, Harley fears what other evil tricks her psychotic aunt has up her sleeve. When she discovers that magical foster kids like herself are in danger,...
Author
Series
Harley Merlin volume 4
Publisher
Nightlight
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Now that Harley knows her enemy's grand plan--to become a godlike Child of Chaos and punish those deemed "unworthy"--she's got to figure out what the heck to do about it. Many of the missing magicals are still out there, and Katherine has vowed to kill everyone. Harley cares about and make her watch. So that's fun. Just when it seems like things can't get much worse, one of the most precious monsters of the Bestiary escapes, and Harley is sure that...
Author
Series
Harley Merlin volume 3
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
How does one become an all-powerful child of chaos? That's what Harley desperately needs to find out before her unhinged aunt raises the death toll. All she knows for sure is that magical kids are missing, and they somehow fit into Katherine Shipton's grand scheme. Now that Harley is an official member of the San Diego Coven, she feels more responsible than ever for its protection and that of the magical world. But she's got a whole lot more on her...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient,...
11) Mockingbird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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