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Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Most people want something in their life to change, whether it's their job, their personal relationships, or their ability to live authentically. And sometimes, unwanted change comes all too swiftly. In The Only Constant, celebrated poet and educator Najwa Zebian guides her reader through the changes we must make (or those we need to endure) on the journey to our most authentic lives. She quiets the noise, teaches us to accept ourselves as we are...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"There are issues, and there are issues-love, loss, success, failure, hope, regret, life, death. How can we even begin to think clearly about dilemmas so universally confounding? Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face, and this profound book puts the conclusions he's reached at your fingertips. Stutz has been writing these remarkably insightful short essays since the late 1990s, and they are collected here for...
3) Upside down
Author
Language
English
Description
"Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance from Ardith's Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them....
4) Two for joy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When their beloved and very independent great aunt comes to live with them after an accident, 8-year-old Jenna and her mother struggle to keep the peace and adjust to changing family dynamics.
Author
Series
Beach Plum Cove novel volume 3
Publisher
Piping Plover Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Born on Christmas, Angela Stark has always hated the holiday. Bad things always seem to happen and this year is no exception when she is fired and evicted on the first day of December. She was living and working as a maid in San Francisco. Who will hire her at this time of year, especially if they learn why she was fired? Her only family is Sam, an elderly and quite vocal orange cat. Her only option is to stay temporarily with her best friend Jane,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No one is more surprised than Wren when she discovers that geocaching - the outdoor activity of using GPS to look for hidden objects - is the only thing getting...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Old Crimes delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close, even as the past continues to reverberate across generations. And despite the characters? yearnings for connection, they can?t seem to tell the whole truth: A woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her husband?s commentary. A telephone lineman strains to communicate with his family even as he feels pushed aside in a digital world. A...
Author
Series
Beach Plum Cove novel volume 5
Publisher
Piping Plover Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Maxwell used to have her dream job. She is a sought after wedding planner on Nantucket, with no shortage of business. But she is struggling a bit to get back to loving her job. It has been bittersweet to plan other people's weddings - ever since her own fiance died two weeks before their wedding. That was a year ago and she was just starting to feel better, when she came back from a vacation to find her house burned down. So she will be staying...
Author
Series
Beach Plum Cove novel volume 4
Publisher
Piping Plover Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone thought they had the perfect marriage. But things are sometimes not what they seem. Lisa Hodges has always thought her best friend Sue had a dream marriage. She'd married Curt, her high school sweetheart and current business partner. After thirty-five years of marriage. She never doubted him once until Brandi Morgan joined their thriving insurance company. Brandi is fifteen years younger, blonde and beautiful and is also excellent at her...
10) The day tripper
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames. He wakes the next day to find he's in a messy, derelict room he's never seen before, in grimy clothes he doesn't recognize, with no idea of how he got there. A glimpse...
11) Begin again
Author
Publisher
Avon, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A surprise inheritance. A cache of family secrets. A choice that will change her life forever. Lillian Doyle has lived her entire high-society life with her widowed mother, believing her father died long ago. But when news arrives that her estranged father only recently passed away--in jail--Lillian is startled to find that the man has left a business and all of his possessions to her, making her a rather unusual heiress. When she goes to take...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams--with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . . When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time...
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the opportunity to grow old. But when...
15) The gulf
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Oli found a pamphlet for a remote island commune as a kid, it's all she can think about. Now that she's nearing the end of high school, feeling frustrated with the mounting pressure to choose a career and follow a path she has no interest in, the desire to escape it all has been steadily increasing. Everything comes to a head when Oli's relationship with her best friend goes south and she claps back at a school bully with more than just...
16) Honey and me
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Milla's best friend Honey joins her school for sixth grade, Milla finds herself in her friend's shadow. But as the year progresses through the Jewish holidays, Milla tries to cope with the tensions and the dramas of school - including the death of a beloved teacher.
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn't expecting much. It's the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful. Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can't resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now. Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the Missouri...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"She didn't paint women like the men painted women. Her close friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she'd been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story,...
19) Love in tandem
Author
Language
English
Description
After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough...
20) The fetishist
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people--Kyoko, a Japanese...