Mourning the loss of his mother, David finds comfort in the books she left behind. But soon the make-believe world of the books melds with David's reality, and the figments of his imagination become startlingly real. Suddenly, he finds...
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Author:Ozeki, RuthSummary:A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and learning to take charge of one's life, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. Benny Oh is a fourteen year-old boy living in the Pacific Northwest...
- Author:Conwell, KentSummary:
Nathan Cooper is an expert scout and tracker. Arriving home one afternoon, he is shocked to find his wife, niece and her betrothed violently murdered. Swearing revenge, Cooper sets off on a quest to track down the killers--and heaven...
- Author:Brady, AliSummary:
Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O'Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything...
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Author:Ellis, SarahSummary:Jessica knew that the family meeting Dad had called for that evening probably wouldn't be good news. Family meetings usually meant Mum talking a lot and then the whole family getting involved in some project that left everything in a...
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Author:Gendreau, Vickie, Wall, AimeeSummary:On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same...
- Author:Nix, GarthSummary:
Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel's parents, Tericel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together-and threatened to tear them apart. A long-...
- Author:Simon, ScottSummary:
Wonder meets Three Times Lucky in a story of empowerment as a young woman decides to help solve the mystery of multiple suspicious deaths in her group home. Sally Miyake can't read, but she learns lots of things, like bricks are...
- Author:Thayne, RaeAnneSummary:
"[Thayne] engages the reader's heart and emotions, inspiring hope and the belief that miracles are possible."--Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom the beloved bestselling author of Season of Wonder...
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Author:Brooke, JohnSummary:Pearl Serein is the most desired woman in town. Her lovers are the city's leading men. She breaks up marriages, and after she dumps her lovers, their careers go down the tubes. Celebrity gossip scribe Tommi Bonneau chronicles Pearl...
- Author:Raymond, Emily, Patterson, JamesSummary:
Sophia's kingdom is plunged into a nightmare when beasts and a great army march on her castle. The people will all perish unless Sophia can unlock an ancient secret.
- Author:MacLeod, Ian R.Summary:
"A man lies half-drowned on a Cornish beach at dawn in the furthest days of this century. The old woman discovers him, once a famous concert violinist, is close to death herself - or a new kind of life she can barely contemplate. Does...
- Author:Banville, JohnSummary:
The year is 1957, and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford is summoned to County Wexford to investigate the murder of a parish priest, found dead at the home of local artistocrats...
- Author:Hall, Sarah, Hobbs, PeterSummary:
“What else is there?” — Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death. The drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two...
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Author:Coerr, EleanorSummary:Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Author:Guay-Poliquin, ChristianSummary:When the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,...
- Author:Bowler, TimSummary:
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
- Author:Johnson, LeahSummary:
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is grieving the loss of her roadie father and needing to figure out where her life will go from here--and she's desperate to get back to loving music. Olivia is a...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
Lawrence "Fast Larry" Shaw was the quickest gun alive until his beloved Rosa died. Turning to the bottle for solace, he takes a job helping a widow tend her ranch. But when the Barrows Brothers Gang tears a bloody trail across his path...
- Author:Walsch, Neale Donald, Saint-Germain, MichelSummary:
Inspirant, ce chef-d’œuvre de réconfort et de compassion explore les ultimes questions de l’existence et de la transcendance. L’expérience appelée « la mort » fascine l’humanité au plus haut point, suscitant à la fois de la frayeur et...
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