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1641) Device free weekend
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Ryan Cloverhill, founder and CEO of the world's most popular social media platform, invites his six best friends from college to his home on his private island near Puget Sound. For Stephen, Emma, Perry, Will, Beau, and Lainie, day one is just what the doctor ordered: amazing food, many drinks, lots of laughter, and a sunset cruise around the island aboard their host's custom Van Dutch 55. Day two, however, takes a bewildering turn when the six hungover...
1642) Self care: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Two female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to maintain their best friendship. Have you ever scrolled through Instagram and seen countless influencers who seem like experts at caring for themselves--from their yoga crop tops to their well-lit clean meals to their serumed skin and erudite-but-color-coded reading stack? This novel delves into the real lives of...
1643) Joss : touch the sky
Author
Series
Girl of the year 2020 volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Joss Kendrick is always looking for new ways to soar. So when her cheer team needs a new flyer, she can't wait to step up (literally). Her high-flying skills on her surfboard and skateboard make her a natural for the role. But when her skateboarding act at the talent show turns into a total catastrophe--make that a dog-tastrophe--Joss loses her confidence all around, even at the cheer gym. A big cheer competition is coming up fast, though, and her...
Author
Series
Harbor Hills novel volume 3
Publisher
Publishing In The Pines
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
An enchanting women's fiction, complete with holiday cheer, Christmas romance, and a snowy mystery. From USA TODAY bestseller Elizabeth Bromke come the finale in a four-part, small-town saga. Every single one of the women on Apple Hill Lane has been withholding an icy secret. And it's not what you think. Jude Banks has held it all together. Battling the winter blues through her divorce. Her lonesomeness. Her past. Until now. Will she find her...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets--no one ever does--but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move--until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward. When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she's being haunted. The listing--a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama--is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one's...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Lauren Cress teaches writing in the international program at a small college outside of Washington, D.C. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well-liked by her students and colleagues. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated. Still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier, she exists at a remove from everyone around her, frozen in time as a grieving teenager. But one day, a new student joins...
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
Over-achievement isn't a bad word--for Berlin, it's the goal. She's securing excellent grades, planning her future, and working a part-time job at Pink Mountain...
1650) Paper wife
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and...
1651) Yours cheerfully
Author
Series
The Emmy Lake chronicles volume Book 2
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From the author of the "jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People) and international bestseller Dear Mrs. Bird, a new charming and uplifting novel set in London during World War II about a plucky aspiring journalist. London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman's Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Her relationship...
1652) Spy school goes south
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has been caught in the snares of SPYDER more than once and knows well enough to be suspicious of anything that seems too good to be true--despite needing special tutoring in advanced survival techniques. So when Murray Hill finally breaks his silence with an offer to hand over the SPYDER elite, Ben knows that there must be something going on. But his hesitation doesn't stop the assignment. The Mission: Follow Murray Hill...
Author
Series
Harbor Hills volume Book 1
Publisher
Publishing in the Pines
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Looking to reinvent herself, Quinn Whittle is ready for a fresh start in a new neighborhood. On a tight budget, she's thrilled to discover a charming fixer-upper and jumps to make an offer. But it isn't until after she's signed the paperwork that she learns there's more to the foreclosure than a few loose floorboards... Annette Best owns Best on the Block realty, but the business is struggling. Then a new face comes to town, and Annette sees an opportunity...
1654) So this is ever after
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Arek has managed to fulfill the prophecy and save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler, but the quest is not over because until they free the princess locked in one of the towers he has to asssume the crown himself; only the princess proves to be very dead, and Arek is stuck as king; then he discovers that magic requires him to find a bride before his eighteenth birthday or wither away--but none of his female companions are interested, he does not...
1655) Accidental happiness
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
After her husband Ben's tragic death at the age of thirty-six, Gina Melrose becomes a "live-aboard" on his boat. Docked at a South Carolina marina, a grieving Gina settles into a strange, temporary, borrowed existence. But this stillness is dramatically shattered late one night when Ben's ex-wife, Reese, disrupts Gina's world of quiet isolation. With Reese, once described by Ben as "a wild child," comes her daughter: an enigmatic little girl called...
1656) Luca
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, this is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where impoverished...
1660) You, again: a novel
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"When Ari and Josh meet the first time, the wrong kind of sparks fly. They hate each other. Instantly. A free-spirited, struggling comedian who likes to keep things casual, Ari sublets, takes gigs, and lives by a code that ensures her friends-with-benefits stay firmly in the friendzone. She doesn't believe in morning sex because she never sleeps over. Born-and-bred Manhattanite Josh has ambitious plans: he'll take the culinary world by storm, find...
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