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Author
Series
Shadow children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.
42) Eyes
Author
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered car salesman. A womanizing bartender. A beloved minister with a devoted family. Except for the fact that each of the murder victims is male, Minnesota police can't find a connection between the crimes. But that's because what links them can't be seen with the naked eye. Losing everything can make a person do crazy things. No one knows that better than Connie Wilson. The shock of suddenly losing her fiance, Alan, in a car accident,...
Author
Publisher
Warner Business Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide on how to transform workplace conflicts into productive professional relationships covers such areas as managing difficult bosses, protecting oneself from credit-stealing rivals, and enforcing boundaries.
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever been in a conversation that, after volleying back and forth, ended with the words, "I'm just saying..."? Usually, this signals frustration, that the discussion has reached a dead end, that you haven't made your point, and may even leave you feeling that your relationship with the other person has changed for the worse. Digital interactions, devoid of nuance and understanding, further complicate discussion. We may believe that we are...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this? As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other--but can feelings...
48) Yerba Buena
Author
Language
English
Description
"The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other. When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that...
50) The Hunger Games
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
51) Almost home
Author
Language
English
Description
With America's entrance into the Second World War, the town of Blackberry Springs, Alabama, has exploded virtually overnight. Workers from all over are coming south for jobs in Uncle Sam's munitions plants--and they're bringing their pasts with them, right into Dolly Chandler's grand but fading family home turned boardinghouse.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An innocent night of fun takes a shocking turn in Not That I Could Tell , the next page-turner from Jessica Strawser. When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far. It's a rare kid-free night, and they're giddy with it. They drink too much, and the conversation turns personal. By Monday...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages :b illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Convinced that society is on the brink of collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings create a self-sustaining socialist commune, before their utopian vision is marred by desire, suspicion, and betrayal.
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life, their parents barely support their dreams and worry for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Do I have enough friends?' 'Why did my friendship end?' and 'What makes a good friendship work?' ... [Sharing] stories from a ... diverse cast of women, many of whom speak about feelings they haven't shared before, ... [Barth provides] advice on how to manage betrayal and rejection, how to deal with a narcissistic or bossy friend, what to do when your best friend and your family don't get along, how to let go of a friendship that has stopped working,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling author of A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth serves up an entirely different kind of novel: Le Divorce meets The Love Letter. Married for 12 years, Laura and Charlie Rider have come to share almost everything: their nursery business, their love for their animals, and, most especially, their zeal for storytelling. And though they no longer share a bed, they are happy enough continuing along in their pleasant, platonic routine....
59) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A rerelease of a classic tale by the New Yorker journalist and author of The Postman Always Rings. Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a...
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