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2) Kittentits
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike-riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly's adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
To meet new people, five not-yet-friends answer an ad seeking members of a bar trivia team, the Red Hot Quizzy Peppers, and are swept up in the buzz of winning and friendship, which gives them a shot at making the London Pub Quiz League's Grand Final.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women-Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children. The only way she can see them is with the help of neighbor Izzy, acting as a go-between. Izzy...
5) Spy ring
Author
Language
English
Description
"With codewords and secret signals perfected, best friends Rachel and Joon are ready to spend their summer practicing spycraft—especially if they can uncover secrets like the one Joon’s parents have been keeping, that his family is about to move out of town. When eavesdropping leads them to a ring rumored to have belonged to Anna “Nancy” Smith Strong—according to local Long Island legend, the only female member of George Washington’s famed...
6) Sumo libre
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Friends Max and Kenji love wrestling, but Max loves lucha libre and Kenji loves sumo, so they come together to create something spectacular.
7) The switch
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two couples. One twisted game of love and sex. A dark domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister... When young couple Elena and Adam are offered the chance to housesit in their dream neighborhood for a few months, they jump at the opportunity. The leafy South London enclave is a world away from everything they know, complete with grand homes with lush gardens and quaint local coffee shops....
8) My new home
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Moving to a new home can sometimes feel scary and a little bit lonely, but this little raccoon soon discovers that wherever you go adventures soon follow. A story about moving house, making friends and finding a new home. This story is written from the perspective of a young child. It's perfect for children about to move house or start new school, but has a universal message for any child about the importance of kindness and acceptance when meeting...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In a village on Naxos lies a gorgeous guest house and taverna that never opened. Cressida's husband died suddenly three years ago - the taverna was their dream - but she's been too lost in grief to keep that dream alive. Marjory "Jory" St. James, a young traveler who always feels more at home on the move, arrives on Naxos in the middle of the night as if summoned by the island. She quite unexpectedly becomes Cressida's very first guest. Jory quickly...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A Latino picture book retelling of the . . . [Scottish] folktale 'Always Room for One More,' which follows Don Manuel, Doña Lila, and their children and assorted pets as they welcome all to their one-room casita for a fiesta before chaos ensues"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nubeocho
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Klaus the mouse is always hungry but nothing he eats seems to satisfy him. That is, until he stumbles across a bookstore and starts to nimble some pages of a book! For the first time he feels full . . . full of stories! The bookseller and the mouse make a pact: she will read him stories and he will help her in the bookstore. After hearing one particular tale, Klaus gets an idea that will fill the store with girls and boys and mice, all hungry for...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Pony has a surprise for Dog--a pet rock! Dog would have preferred a T-Rex, or a moose, or a cow for a pet, but Pony says if Dog gives the pet rock a name, Dog will like it more. Dog names his pet rock Lulu the T-Rex and says it likes to eat ponies! Uh-oh. Will Dog and Pony and Lulu learn to get along?"--Amazon.
16) Not a river
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness. It's only the two sisters--the...
17) Rakesfall
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelidand Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another...
19) A magical day
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Magical, Unique, and Divine need to find Magical's special crown before her birthday party is ruined"--
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