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"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing...
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"Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to her hometown in England after living abroad for sixty years. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss, and she retreats from the world into a life of dull routine. Then one winter night, a chance encounter with a mouse sets Helen on a surprising journey."--
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"It's been three months since the Snow Queen and OzCorp infiltrated Maidenkeep and nearly seized the Nine Maidens. Ryker is still unconscious and the rest of the group is feeling the effects of the prolonged war. Not to mention that Abigail Fey's curse has far-reaching consequences, and many in the Royal States have been using it to stir unrest and hostilities against Avalon. When the Adarna, a firebird-like creature appears in Avalon, the gang discovers...
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it's off-season with most...
7) Sign me up
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2024.
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"Alyssa is an ice skater who prefers to skate alone. She lives in rural Alaska, where a quiet frozen lake is her happy place. But now she’s moving to sunny, loud Los Angeles. As the new girl in town, Alyssa isn’t sure if she’ll ever fit in. When the local roller derby team takes Alyssa under its wing, she’s not sure she wants to trade her ice skates and solitude for roller skates and teammates. Alyssa decides to leave her comfort zone. Will...
8) Beautyland
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"A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
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2023.
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Lotti is a shy girl who retreats into a world of books and reading, but eventually learns to make friends with other kids who share her passion, and reconnects with the real world (including her brother). Includes reading recommendations throughout.
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"Rosie is a good writer, so how come she can't come up with a single good story idea when her friend Wolfie has a million ideas? Rosie knows all the elements needed for a good story, but she wants her story for a class assignment to be GREAT--and that means giving it a surprise twist. Then Wolfie himself unwittingly inspires the perfect idea for the twist Rosie's been looking for. But will using it make her story better or ruin her friendship with...
11) Nova shimmers
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Forever fairies ; 2
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Scholastic Inc
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"Nova and her best fairy friends Lulu, Coco, and Zali are ready for their next fairy pod try-out, this time for the Shimmerbuds--who know all about fairy medicine. Nova isn’t very speedy, but she loves helping the forest animals! When the forest trolls interrupt the challenge with more shenanigans, Nova has to think fast. Can she and the other Sprout Wings work together and mend the mess?"--
12) Lulu flutters
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Forever fairies ; 1
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"The new Sprout Wing fairies, Lulu, Nova, Coco, and Zali, can’t wait to explore their home in the Forever Tree. Soon they’ll try out to see which fairy pod they each belong to, starting with the swift and sporty Flutterflies! Lulu wants to stay close to her friends, but there are four different pods, each with a special talent--plus mischievous trolls stirring up trouble"--
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"When a betrayal tears apart three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate, their friendship may be fractured forever. Years later, one of them risks exposure as a fraud unless she can mend the relationships and solicit help to create an original woven design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding"--
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Only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn't stop him from clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away. Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom. Things are looking up for Conor, but he is never too far away from chaos. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, always the calm in the eye of the storm, but even they are rocked when old secrets...
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"Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long."--
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"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de M̌xico desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive pr̀cticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dej̤ paral̕tica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos ąos despǔs en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli...
17) A for effort
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During his freshman year of high school, Jay enrolls in Theater 101 and finds himself struggling like never before as he tries to balance Shakespeare with biology and geometry, wondering if he has it in him to deliver an A+ performance.
18) The hollow dead
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Gravekeeper ; 4
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"When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered. Until now. Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men...
19) Detective Hitch
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HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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"When Sunny and Izzy go missing, it's up to Detective Hitch and his detective-in-training Zipp to solve the case! My Little Pony: Detective Hitch is a Level One I Can Read Comic, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with young readers new to graphic novel storytelling"--
20) The summer swap
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"Deciding to spend her 70th birthday alone in her Cape Cod seashore cottage, hiding from her interfering family, widow Cecilia Lapthorne instead finds an unexpected houseguest, struggling artist Lily, and, allowing her to stay, settles in for a summer of self-discovery, self-belief and second chances"--
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