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1) The waters
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Language
English
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea... and it just might work. Emma hadn't planned that...
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Language
English
Description
"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan mistakenly...
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
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center--a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife--a knife Eunju hasn't seen in more than thirty years,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary is desperate for a friend. So when she meets the charming and enigmatic Willa at a Brooklyn playground, their connection feels fated. But during a margarita-fueled moms' night out, Mary shares her darkest secret about her ex, George, and the next morning Willa simply disappears. No calls, no texts, nothing. Two months later, Mary's divorce is almost finalized, and she's trying to build a new life for...
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins,...
11) My mom's piano
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
12) Mouseboat
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young girl feels lost after the death of her mother, but when she and her father visit their lake house, she takes out the small boat she and her mom built together and somehow, in the wind and rain, reconnects with her mother's love.
Author
Publisher
Sam Vickery
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the hand that rocks the cradle is broken? Megan Taylor was never good at anything, until she became a mother. Raising her first son, Toby, had been the happiest time of her life and she was sure that her second baby would bring her just as much joy. But it isn't long after Milo's birth when she realises that something is different. The bond she found so easy with her firstborn, is conspicuously absent. The harder she tries to force...
Author
Series
Elements volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A broken shell of a man who angrily lashes out at anyone who comes to close, Tristan, when he meets a woman whose heart is just as shattered as his own, he is no longer lost alone in the dark.
15) Rescued love
Author
Series
Love on the western trail volume 2
Publisher
Linda Ford
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Colleen Pringle has been falsely accused and kicked out of her wagon train. She is desperate to get to California, start her own business and be independent. And to keep her secret. Alone on the prairie except for her wee daughter, Sheela, she is rescued by Eli. She'll accept his help on one condition: they part ways once they reach California. Eli Oatman agrees to Colleen's plan. After losing his home and the woman he thought loved him, he can't...
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Series
The Sutherland volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When her newly sober sister goes missing, Nicole Homes turns to former lover PI Dean Beaumont. Though she left him when he needed her most, she knows he'll help and protect her from forces determined to keep her quiet. As she joins Dean's search, clues lead them straight to life-threatening attacks. But even if they find the missing single mom, can they also find their way back to one another?
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
20) Ride beside me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A mother and son hop on their bike for a ride through the neighborhood, joining friends and neighbors along the way.