"Lynette Noni is a masterful storyteller. A must-read for any fantasy lover!"--Sarah J. Maas, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author. She'd failed them. All of them. And now she was paying the price. Kiva thought she knew...
Families
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Author:Noni, LynetteSummary: - Author:Hammonds Reed, ChristinaSummary:
A New York Times bestseller "Should be required reading in every classroom." —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin "A true love letter to Los Angeles." —Brandy Colbert, award-winning...
- Author:Mikhail, DunyaSummary:
Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the...
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Author:Stegner, WallaceSummary:Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from place to place, seeking a living. The conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bo's pursuit of the American dream gives the book great resonance and...
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Author:Harrington, LisaSummary:Just as fourteen-year-old Lucy is starting to figure out life after her mom's death, her dad ships her off to Cape John, her mom's hometown, for the summer. Worse, she has to live with her nutty great-aunt Josie, who doesn...
- Author:Maclear, KyoSummary:
You'll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive... / At the bath house / The big bath house. In this celebration of Japanese culture and family...
- Author:Peck, RichardSummary:
Newbery Medalist Richard Peck tells a story of small-town life, gay marriage, and everyday heroes in this novel for fans of Gary Schmidt and Jack GantosArcher Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in...
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Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary:To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut. While he awaits his trial in jail, his family is...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
The newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned home from the Middle East, only...
- Author:Peters, AmandaSummary:
A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the...
- Author:CANFIELD, DorothySummary:
Unlike other young women of her generation, who were "bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers," Sylvia Marshall - the "twig" of this novel - was reared to think for...
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Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:With The Barclay Family Theatre, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous world of human warmth and comic energy....
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Author:Andersen, Marguerite, Winkler, DonaldSummary:The Trillium Award-winning autobiographical novel "La mauvaise mere" by Marguerite Andersen is now in English. Prolific author Marguerite Andersen traces the important moments of her life in this honest and harrowing examination of...
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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...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
Exclusive bundle of books 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the wildly popular Ava Lee series. This bundle includes: The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, Uncle and Ava are summoned by Wong Changxing, “The Emperor of Hubei” and one of the most powerful men in China...
- Author:Mukhopadhyay, SirshenduSummary:
Somlata has just married into the dynastic but declining Mitra family. At eighteen, she expects to settle into her role as a devout wife in this traditional, multi-generational family. But then Somlata, wandering the halls of the grand...
- Author:Kernot, SharonSummary:
Lottie collects dead creatures and lovingly cares for them, hoping to preserve them, to save them from disintegration. Her father understands--Lottie has a scientific mind, he thinks. Her aunt wants it to stop, and she goes to cruel...
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Author:Klune, T. J.Summary:Tyson Thompson graduated high school at sixteen and left the town of Seafare, Oregon, bound for what he assumed would be bigger and better things. He soon found out the real world has teeth, and he returns to the coast with four years...
- Author:Hala AlyanSummary:
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home. The Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the...
- Author:Nelson, MaggieSummary:
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking...
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