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1) The walk
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alan Christoffersen is living the American Dream. Only 28-year-old, Alan is heading up his own successful advertising firm. However, when his loving wife McKale suffers from a fall while horseback riding and becomes paralyzed, Alan leaves his business in his partner's hands so that he may be by her side. But when his partner betrays him and his wife dies, an inconsolable Alan leaves most of his worldly possessions behind and sets off on a soul searching...
2) Happy hour
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 2013, and while New York swelters, Isa and Gala scrape and hustle to get by. Among a rotating cast of artists, academics, and bad-mannered grifters, they discover that desires aren't for denying. But as money gets sparse and circumstances grow precarious, the pair struggle to convert social capital into something more tangible"--
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set in interwar Paris and taking the form of a diary, the novel relates the complex and fraught relationship between an unnamed narrator and his love interest and muse, the beguiling Lyolya Heard. Subtle and profound in its exploration of love, deceit and betrayal, Felsen's novel is a daring and highly original work of psychological fiction"--
"Once considered the 'Russian Proust', Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love affair set in interwar...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Iceland's financial crisis, a young author, recently separated and feeling out the uncertain terrain of a new relationship, finds herself questioning the foundations of our love and family lives, our bonds to country and the earth. Stirred by a dream about an old Viking woman on a pilgrimage, she sets out on a quest to the the ruins of the homes of her ancestors, where they tried to live in harmony with nature and each other. Her guiding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Sherman Alexie, in his first book for young adults, tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, beautifully written, semi-autobiographical, and coupled with poignant drawings that reflect...
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie Kelly shares with her diary her excitement about the fact that students from Wodehouse Middle School will be going to Mackerel Middle School temporarily.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A singular debut from an exciting new voice, The Applicant explores with scorching wit and startling brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writer. It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twentysomething living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her fate. Increasingly distant from...
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.
11) Be that way
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Christine keeps a journal of an eventful year of her life in mid-90s Asheville, North Carolina, which she records through prose and illustration.
"Seventeen-year-old Christine keeps a journal of an eventful year in her life in mid-90s, while juggling troubled friendships and looking for love. It’s January 1, 1996, and high school junior Christine wants more than anything to be that cool girl everyone notices, like her gorgeous...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Darcy's intimate diary reveals his entanglements with women, his dangerous friendship with Lord Byron, his daily life in Georgian London, his mercurial mood swings calmed only by fisticuffs at Jackson's--and, most importantly, his vain struggle to conquer his longing for Elizabeth Bennet.
Author
Series
Top secret diary of Celie Valentine volume 3
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Celie is facing major changes in her life, including adjusting to a new school, making new friends, helping her sister, and getting used to having Granny's nurse in her house, and turns to her diary to record her troubles.
Author
Series
Rumblewick's diary volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rumblewick, a Highly Qualified Witch's Cat, records in his diary all the problems he has when his reluctant young witch Haggy Aggy decides she would rather go to ballet school on the Other Side than engage in proper witch behavior.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
To get her best friend back, anxious and inventive eleven-year-old Maple performs a scientific experiment to uncover the secret to becoming fun.
"Perfect for fans of Dork Diaries and Emmie & Friends, this first book in a diary-style illustrated middle grade series follows an anxious, science-minded sixth grader determined to become fun and win back her friend. Sixth grade has been pretty disaster-free for aspiring astronaut Maple McNutt—which...
17) Flying free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.
Author
Series
Bridget Jones volume 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As Bridget careers towards baby-deadline, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy--but just not quite as intended. It's a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Drunken Singletons and Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance, joy and despair--but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question: who's the father?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 5
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
"Querida Señorita Sabelotodo, Mi peor enemiga está propagando chismes sobre mí. ¡Socorro! ¡Oh, cielos! ¿El nombre de tu peor enemiga empieza por "Mac" y termina en "Kenzie"? ¡Entonces eres TÚ la que ME tiene que aconsejar! Tu amiga, SEÑORITA SABELOTODO."--Back cover.
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