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Marina, a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

"After discovering that everything she's ever known including her own identity has been a lie, Quinlan McKee is determined to find out the truth about her past. But in her search for answers, she discovers a cover-up more chilling than she can imagine. An epidemic is coming, and there's no way to stop it"--

"From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in the face of loss When Bozoma Saint John's husband, Peter Saint John, died of cancer, she made one big decision: to live life with urgency. Saint John was nostranger to adversity, having lost her college boyfriend to suicide, navigated an interracial marriage, grieved a child born prematurely--a process that led to her and Peter's separation--and coparented...

Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.

Thirty-one-year-old Charity Baxter inherits her grandparents' island estate on Florida's Gulf coast, a place that provided her only sense of a loving home after being raised by a narcissistic single mother. However, her beloved grandmother's death has pierced those fond memories and as a result, she has stopped believing in the magical healing power of the weeping willow that still casts a shadow on the property. Now others who are burdened by heartache,...

Presents a deeply personal work of meditation, hope, and remembrance recounting the death of the author's beloved father in the summer of 2020.

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale...

As the youngest of eight siblings, Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar, getting whatever hand-me-downs life gives, and settling for less. Like with his best friend, Izzy, who he's been into since freshman yearshe uses him, and he never says anything. Or with his grades in schoolhe's failing and not really bothered by it. His future, too, is undecided, and he's fine with that. The only person who ever made Pup think he could be more was...

"At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from their hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life in India feels uncertain. Nisha, his twin sister, suggests...