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How do you escape a life of conflict and abuse? Being a young girl in 1940's Ireland isn't easy for Molly, especially since she isn't like others. Her family and community are wary of the beautiful child. As Molly becomes a teenager, life gets harder and she loses faith in everything. Molly is, surrounded in danger. She must make choices. But will she chose the right path or is she doomed to a life of misery? Will she survive in a world of violence...
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Testing, Testing, One, Two Teens Meet Lizzie, the exasperated mother of Cassie, Connor and Stepdaughter Maisy. She gets by with good friends, cheap wine and talking to herself. Teenager Cassie, the Facebook-tweeting, selfie-taking, music and mobile phone-obsessed daughter, hates everything about her life. She longs for a different existence and wishes her parents had never divorced. However, the discovery of a terrible betrayal, and a brutal attack,...
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She stands on the doorstep and I catch my breath. Everything about her reminds me of my beloved mom, whose funeral was just a week ago. And when she says her name is Audrey the name of my baby sister my world falls apart.
Because Audrey died in a car crash when I was a toddler. At least, thats what my mother told me. Afterwards, my father couldn't cope with the grief, and he left us. She brought me up on her own and was always fiercely protective....
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"When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents' divorce. Charlie's cynicism didn't mix well with Bailey's carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip. Now, Bailey and...
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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...
6) Wayfinders
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Wayfinders volume 1
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Between school and family drama, Chloe Summers has more than enough on her plate. But when a giant literally crashes into her house--not to mention the mermaid in the bathtub and the unicorn in the barn--Chloe and her dad find themselves on a wild adventure to save a group of fairy tale creatures and help return them to their home. To do so, they must find a way to reopen a secret portal to a magical world while preventing others from taking the...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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"A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center--a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife--a knife Eunju hasn't seen in more than thirty years,...