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Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to parties and galas to which she is not welcome, and is quite comfortable with that. One day, though, Peter wonders, 'Why not print an extra invite and I'll be your plus one?' What starts out as an innocuous lark becomes much more -- a very funny and...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Izzy Morales and her six friends celebrate the end of high school with a 1920s themed getaway, but when one teen ends up murdered everyone becomes a suspect.
"Seven friends throw a 1920s–themed party, where it's all pretend—until one of them is murdered. One of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out in this glamorous locked-room mystery. "A can't miss for mystery fans." —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author...
3) Plus one
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''When Agnes decides to host a tea party, she finds it hard to shake a most unlikely guest . . . and his even more unlikely friends. Agnes is new to town and wants to make friends, so she invites some girls in her class to a fancy tea party. When there is a knock at the door, she expects to see them—not Dave from next door. This isn't what she had in mind at all. . . "The invitation says plus one. This means you need to bring a friend. And since...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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''And Then There Were None meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in #1 international bestseller Darby Kane’s latest gripping and twisty thriller set on a private island in Maine where secrets piled upon secrets and lies upon lies are all revealed in one fateful weekend. Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn’t...
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Language
English
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"A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed. On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children - especially...
6) Beholder
Author
Publisher
Push, an imprint of Scholastic, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From Ryan La Sala, author of the tantalizingly twisted The Honeys and riotously imaginative Reverie, comes a chilling new contemporary fable about art, aesthetic obsession, and the gaze that peers back at us from behind our reflections. No one survived the party at the penthouse. Except Athan. Athanasios "Athan" Bakirtzis has made it far in life relying on his charm and good looks, even securing an invitation to a mysterious penthouse soiree for...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution shows how to fix them. Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only 20 percent of Americans think it’s doing a good job—yet 90 percent of incumbents are reelected. This shocking discrepancy is a natural outcome of our system of party primaries and their...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition. Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet his defeat in 2020 may have been even more surprising: he received 12 million more votes in 2020 than 2016 and his unexpectedly diverse coalition included millions of nonwhite voters, a rarity for the modern...
9) Party Rex
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rex invites all of his friends over to celebrate his tenth birthday"--
"It's Rex's tenth birthday, and it's time to party! Molly Idle, Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator, returns with a new story to celebrate everyone's favorite dinosaur. Rex cordially invites you and all of his friends to celebrate a milestone birthday, so remember to greet the guest of honor at the door with an enthusiastic "happy birthday," share party favors with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Manatee Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A child uses his senses to uncover a surprise.
"There's a surprise. What could it be? Use all five senses to find clues with me!" The final installment of Sarah Jones's ROYGBaby series, Ears, Nose, Eyes... Surprise! will have young readers eager to learn what their own senses can help them discover."--
11) If the boot fits
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Samantha Dearing's rancher father hosts a ball to find her a husband, she balks at the prospect of marrying a man not of her own choosing. After a mystery guest saves her brother's life and then disappears, leaving only his boot behind, her search for its owner leads to an ending more enchanting than she imagined"--
Convinced that his stepmother and half brothers have been wrongfully evicted by cattle king Eli Dearing, Asher Ellis uses the...
12) Party animals
Author
Series
Tig and Lily volume 2
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Desperate not to be a party pooper, tiger Lily agrees to throw a shindig with house cat Tig, but when their zoo neighbors run away scared from Lily before she has time to invite them, Tig is there to help his friend.
It is time to meet the rest of the zoo with the best party ever! This graphic chapter book series purr-fectly balances fun (feline!) friendship with social emotional learning! Tig wants to throw a party! The zoo has so many amazing...
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