Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, is drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a...
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Author:Abraham, Tola RotimiSummary: - Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:
This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the...
- Author:Watson, S. J.Summary:
An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.
- Author:Backman, FredrikSummary:
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town's junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals-and they actually have a shot at winning. All the...
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Author:Bertin, KrisSummary:The characters in 'Bad Things Happen' - professors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminals - are between things. Between jobs and marriages, states of sobriety, joy and anguish; between who they are and who they want to be. Kris...
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Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:From the author of Relative Happiness and Shoot Me comes a riveting story about one terrible secret-a secret kept in shame, buried deep for self-preservation, and exposed in a moment that changes forever the lives of everyone involved....
- Author:Stéphane LarocheSummary:
Bien décidé à fuir son quotidien monotone et ce mal de vivre qui lui ronge les entrailles, Bernard Labonté s'apprête à fermer son gîte touristique et à plier bagage, à la recherche d'un peu de bonheur sur le vieux...
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Author:McEwan, IanSummary:On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood...
- Author:Keane, Mary BethSummary:
A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two...
- Author:Deveraux, JudeSummary:
Three women of different generations gather at a house in Summer Hill, Virginia to discuss their marriages and look at how they'd do things differently if they could do it all over again. Olivia is in her sixties and recently married...
- Author:Woods, SherrylSummary:
Heather Reed thought she was making the right choice when she decided to raise her daughter, Angel, on her own. But three years later, Heather realizes she needs help. Her career as an actress is faltering, and Angel's more than she can...
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Author:Senécal, PatrickSummary:Against God is the gripping, dark tale of a man searching for answers. What happens in the mind of a man when, all of a sudden, he loses all reason for living? When everything in his life collapses around him and he is left with nothing...
- Author:Ostlund, LoriSummary:
After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits...
- Author:Ferner, BrandySummary:
April is a thoughtful yet sarcastic mother of two who tries her best to be a caring, connected mom in a middle-class culture where motherhood has become relentless. April rages at modern motherhood's impossible pressures, her husband's...
- Author:Raglin, RodSummary:
At 27 years old, George Fairweather is “the voice of his generation”, a poet whose talent has garnered him accolades from the literary establishment and homage from the disenfranchised “hippie” youth of the late 1960’s. George is the...
- Author:Venkatraman, PadmaSummary:
Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance -- so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who's grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and...
- Author:Welch, SusanSummary:
Introspective Shannon Malone and her more popular sister Eliza are Irish twins and best friends. But when tragedy rocks the Malone family, secrets bloom and one sister leaves, possibly forever.
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Author:Lowry, LoisSummary:Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her older sister Molly's beauty and popularity. Things get even more complicated the day Molly is rushed to the hospital. That's the day Meg's life changes forever.
- Author:Joella, EthanSummary:
From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip...
- Author:Smith, HeatherSummary:
Lou spends every Saturday with Grandad and Pops. They walk to the library hand in hand, like a chain of paper dolls. Grandad reads books about science and design, Pops listens to rock and roll, and Lou bounces from lap to lap. But...
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