When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.
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Auteur:Napolitano, AnnSommaire:A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame?as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash?in a heart-wrenching and life-affirming novel for readers of Small Great Things, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Immortalists...
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Auteur:Fisseha, RebeccaSommaire:Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself...
- Auteur:Phillips, Susan ElizabethSommaire:
Run, run, as fast as you can! When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun...
- Auteur:Zauner, MichelleSommaire:
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her...
- Auteur:Anderson Penno, EllenSommaire:
When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her partner in a climbing accident while they were ascending Mount Baker in Washington's Cascade Range. The avalanche hid his body in a crevasse just weeks before Penno was...
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Auteur:Still, JenniferSommaire:It was a long silence that brought me to the erasure poem. Not mine, but my brother's, during his many months in a coma. I came across a notebook of his—a pocketsized, handwritten field guide of prairie grasses. I read it for...
- Auteur:Malfi, Ronald DamienSommaire:
A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee. Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence-and her ghost-...
- Auteur:Li, ChristinaSommaire:
This #ownvoices debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to big questions will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Rebecca Stead. The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves...
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Auteur:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSommaire:Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her...
- Auteur:Simone, NaimaSommaire:
"Simone balances crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters." - Entertainment Weekly. The holidays have never been her thing. But Christmas in Rose Bend has more than one surprise in store... Grieving ER nurse...
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Auteur:Reed, Rick R.Sommaire:It’s 1991, and Dan Calzolaio has just moved to Florida with his lover, Mark, having fled Chicago and Mark’s addictions to begin a new life on the Gulf Coast. Volunteering for the Tampa AIDS Alliance is just one part of that new...
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Auteur:Saffire, BlueSommaire:Alicia Rhodes has had a tough year. Now she is ready to move on from her troubled past and find happiness in the present. But when handsome Quinn Blackhart walks into her driving school-and her heart-her troubles might just be starting...
- Auteur:Lockyer, BrookeSommaire:
A '90s-era Southern Ontario Gothic about holding on to the dead, voiced with plaintive urgency and macabre sensuality. In the small town of Burr, Ontario, thirteen-year-old Jane yearns to reunite with her recently deceased father and...
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Auteur:Watt, MélanieSommaire:A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room ... where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little...
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Auteur:Levine, EliseSommaire:When her friend Jane dies while exploring an underwater cave with her husband Rand, Marilyn takes up diving again, to honour - and outdo - her late friend. Marilyn drags Rand with her as she increasingly pushes herself far past her...
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Auteur:Springer, NancySommaire:After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime--but he doesn't dare tell anyone.
- Auteur:Lacey, CatherineSommaire:
When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified....
- Auteur:Brenna, BeverleySommaire:
A new middle grade novel from the author of the Michael L Printz Honor Book, The White Bicycle.
Ten-year-old Harris is still dealing with the death of his parents three years after the accident. To make matters worse, Grampa...
- Auteur:Harby, RyanSommaire:
Awkward Pause is an anthology collection from Ryan Harby's popular online comic series Honey Dill. A love letter to odd humour, Awkward Pause is a mix of joy and sorrow, both soft and sharp. The book includes over 50 comic strips, which...
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