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"An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall--until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic,...
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Although he is the best linebacker in town, Tony must make a difficult choice between continuing to play football and helping his family when his mother loses one of her two jobs, his younger brother starts to go astray, and Tony himself is struggling to pass his math class.
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"When a teen boy who excels at being unseen finds himself hiding in his ex-girlfriend's house, he uncovers carefully concealed truths about her, her family, and himself"--
One night a lovelorn teen boy 'accidentally' slips into the home of his ex-girlfriend, Laura, and hides in her basement. He uncovers carefully concealed truths about Laura, her family-- and himself. What is his true motive for being there? -- adapted from jacket.
4) Check & mate
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2023.
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
5) Starry eyes
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When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. When a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. Alone. Together....
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"After surviving a suicide attempt, Addison returns to school where her life intersects with four other students, each of whom are also struggling with their own personal struggles"--
Addison's therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand her feelings of stress and sadness. She really needs it today: her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. Booker is anxious about seeing Addison: they...
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2023.
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"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled--the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
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Nantucket Sunset volume 1
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The Copperfield were once the most beloved family on Nantucket Island. Twenty-five years ago, their lives changed forever. And they never saw one another again. Not until now. In the Spring of 1997, Julia watched as a judge sentenced her father, the renowned novelist, Bernard Copperfield, to twenty-five years in prison for conning, swindling, and stealing millions of dollars from his dearest Nantucket friends and fellow artists. With her family in...
9) Game changer
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Field party novels volume 6
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In a small Alabama town, high school seniors Asa and Ezmita, both with troubled families and dreams of leaving home to attend college, find comfort in their blossoming friendship.
11) The Noel diary
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Noel collection volume 1
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Romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years, since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house at sixteen. A lawyer calls to inform him, days before Christmas, that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him; Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and reconcile with the past and the pain and abuse he experienced as a child. But Jacob's mother had become a hoarder, and as he excavates...
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"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they’ve long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward. Frances Mae Livingston’s firm grip of her family’s destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she’s losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and...
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Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most.
Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when...
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"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
15) Best laid plans
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J. Lorimer
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©2009
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Robyn's family has always struggled to make enough money to survive. When Robyn's grandmother leaves them an apple orchard in British Columbia, Robyn thinks things will be different, but her father still can't pay the bills. He asks Robyn for her own hard-earned money and encourages her to drop out of school to work in the orchard, but she desparately wants to go to university and is faced with the choice of leaving her family behind if she wants...
16) My quiet ship
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Albert Whitman and Company
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2018.
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English
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When his parents yell, Quinn escapes in his Quiet Ship but one day, the ship is broken and he must find a way to stop the fighting.
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Illimine LLC
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[2018]
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English
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"The 1960s have come to a close --it's 1972, and America is changing. So is Deidi's world; she's seven, and her family is moving. As she packs her room and unearths precious objects from her past, her thoughts begin to stray to the years before --to her first memories in 1968, and all that followed. From these reveries unfolds a story of terrible abuse and incredible survival. Through her vivid recollections, the stark landscape of rural America,...
18) Losing spring
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Sutherland volume 1
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"Caroline Brady is the daughter of a very conservative TSA agent and former military brat, Morgan Brady. Her mother Linsey Brady is a descendent of the Sutherland real estate family. Their organized, suburban life in Colonie, NY is rigorously regulated and leaves little room for deviation from the norm. When Linsey, Morgan, and Caroline attend the wake of their neighbor Mr. Gleeson, they meet his charming daughter Natalie "Nattie" Gleeson, who works...
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Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2023]
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Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help...