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61) The perfect star
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Told from different viewpoints, five eighth-graders who have challenges at home and at school also experience a sad loss as a group and welcome a new addition to their extended family"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families, to confront the lost daughter of her past.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs."--Dust jacket flap.
"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented"...
66) Lech
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of one summer in upstate New York, this novel mixes the lives of strangers, family, friends, and neighbors to explore--with humor--the predatory side of human nature through conflicts of faith, trauma, desire, and longing.
67) Coral
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The worlds of Coral, Brooke, and Merrick, teens wounded by mental illness and family problems, collide and they must choose what to leave behind in order to survive and start fresh.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.
Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend (and person of...
70) Alice Bliss
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A profoundly moving, uplifting contemporary novel about those who are left at home during wartime and a teenage girl bravely facing the future.
71) Holes in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
Author
Series
Haunted city series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2011
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miranda Tennant arrives in York, England, with her parents and brother, trying to recover from the terrible accident that killed her best friend, and while in the haunted city she falls in love for the first time as two boys, one also suffering from a great loss and the other a ghost, fight for her attentions.
Author
Language
English
Description
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Australian author Nella Pine learns, in middle age, that she was kidnapped as an infant from a hospital in the United States, taken to Australia, and raised by the woman who kidnapped her, her world falls apart. Told from four perspectives, the story examines the lasting impact of a terrible crime.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Katherine Givens, a corporate attorney and divorced mother of one, finds her uneventful life turned upside down when she receives an unexpected bequest from her late friend, Annie G. Freeman, taking her and four other women on a wild and life-transforming road trip from the deserts of New Mexico to the shores of Lake Superior, as they celebrate the bonds of female friendship. Reader's Guide available. Original. 100,000 first printing.
79) Thanks to Nicki
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After a busy summer training Sprocket, the service dog she has been raising, Nicki's school year gets off to a rough start as she works on reconciling her two best friends, accepting that Sprocket will soon leave for placement with someone who needs him, and awaiting the birth of the twins her mother is expecting. Includes essay on service dogs.
80) The walk
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life.
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