Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the...
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Author:Greengrass, JessieSummary: -
Author:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSummary:Annette Gordon-Reed tells the legendary story of the Hemingses of Monticello, an American slave family with direct blood ties to the American President Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed vividly describes the relationships between Jefferson...
- Author:Hoang, HelenSummary:
When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an...
- Author:Ripplinger, Henry K.Summary:
The Heart of an Angel, is the seventh and final book in the award winning, best selling, Angelic Letters Series. After five decades, the family of characters which readers have lived with, cried with, prayed with, laughed with, attended...
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Author:Makansi, K.Summary:Remy Alexander wants revolution. After watching Vale fall back into the hands of the Sector, she will stop at nothing to reveal the corruption in Okaria. When she joins a secret Outsider network in the underbelly of the capital city,...
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Author:Dalton, TomSummary:Three-and-a-half-year-old Michael Murphy is a pain in the ass. He sure shouldn’t be invited to any more weddings; last one he kicked the man his mother married in the shins. All he does is piss and moan, and he won't eat anything his...
- Author:McCrumb, SharynSummary:
Laura Bryce has lived in the small east Tennessee community such a short time that she still feels like an outsider. But when there is violence on the Underhill farm, the sheriff calls on her to represent the church. He will handle the...
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Author:Cates, Skylar M.Summary:A Work in The Guy Series Anthony Carrino loves his big, gregarious Italian-American family, even if his sisters are interfering, and his dad, the local sheriff, knows everything going on in town. He’s happy as a middle school guidance...
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Author:Enright, AnneSummary:Spanning thirty years, this novel tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, and her four children, who grow up and leave Ireland for lives they could have never imagined. When they are all called back to the house a last...
- Author:Kephart, BethSummary:
If eleven-year-old Sara and her brother Hawk can complete a task involving the reclusive author renting out the silo on their farm for the summer, they will receive reward money that will pay for Sara's life-saving surgery.
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Author:Cassidy, Sara, Chua, CharleneSummary:Filip, the ten-year-old son of Croatian immigrants, lives in a boring suburb of the big city, where he passes his time either at school or in his cozy kitchen, googling everything from dinosaurs to the Hubble Space Telescope. When his...
- Author:Makkai, RebeccaSummary:
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for...
- Author:Hannah, KristinSummary:
In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human...
- Author:Hannah, KristinSummary:
A desperate family headed by a former POW seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.
- Author:Hahn, DeeSummary:
Spade is a grave thief. As Spade embarks on a treacherous quest to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery, he meets Ember, the queen's niece, and together they race to solve the mystery of the legendary Deepstones.
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Author:Heneghan, JamesSummary:Abandoned in a department store as a baby, thirteen-year-old Tom Mullen has been shuffled from one rotten foster home to another his entire life. When he hears rumors that a mass grave has been unearthed on his school grounds, he finds...
- Author:Bolan, ChelseaSummary:
Just shy of her fifteenth birthday, Gabriela is cast out of the house for tarnishing the family honour. Furious at her father and desperate to find Gabriela, her older sister Lucy leaves their small Mexican town, coming face to face...
- Author:Thompson, LisaSummary:
Lisa Thompson's debut novel is a page-turning mystery with an emotionally-driven, complex character study at its core -- like Rear Window meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Matthew Corbin suffers from severe...
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Author:Roy, ArundhatiSummary:The international publishing sensation of 1997 -- translated into 18 languages -- a magical, sophisticated tour de force.
The God of Small Things heralds a voice so powerful and original that it burns itself into the...
- Author:Major, ClarenceSummary:
Mark Smith, is a sensitive thirty-seven-year-old environmental scientist of mixed race. He tries to come to terms with his mother's painful death as he goes through the stages of grief. Mark is also reassessing his relationship...
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