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2) Gold diggers
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
Author
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"David Ponder is at a crossroads. Having lost his job and the will to live, he has been supernaturally selected to travel through time, gathering wisdom for future generations. Visits to historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, King Solomon, and Anne Frank yield the Seven Fundamentals for Success that will impact the entire world."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends makes a pact to finally achieve their high school superlatives one way or another in this lively new novel from the acclaimed author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel. In 1997, grunge is king, Titanic is a blockbuster (and Blockbuster still exists), and Thursday nights are for Friends. In Bellport, Connecticut, four best friends and high school seniors are ready to light the world on fire....
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
When Charlotte Kingsley's first book is published, she is convinced she is living her own Cinderella story. But when her popularity and fame requires a total social media makeover of her life, she starts to wonder if she likes the person she is becoming. Can she find her own identity again before losing her relationship with her best friend, Anders, who might just be her perfect Prince Charming?
Author
Publisher
NAL, New American Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Reagan Bishop is a pusher. A licensed psychologist who stars on the Wendy Winsberg cable breakout show, I Need a Push, Reagan helps participants become their best selves by urging them to overcome obstacles and change behaviors. An overachiever, Reagan is used to delivering results. Despite her overwhelming professional success, Reagan never seems to earn her family's respect. Her younger sister, Geri, is and always will be the Bishop family favorite....
9) Badawi
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the course of the life of a Syrian orphan boy named Maïouf whose struggles to attain an education lead him to France and Abu Dhabi, where even his great success can't keep him from being drawn back to the life he thought forgotten.
In the Syrian desert, a young boy watches as his mother dies. She was a repudiated woman, abandoned by the boys powerful father, leaving Maèiouf to his scornful grandmother. Though the Bedouin tribes have stopped...
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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Description
"Melissa Henderson leads a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, her life was derailed by tragedy and she stopped writing. The house has given her new purpose. When her beloved home appears on the news, Melissa receives a call from her estranged sister, Hattie. They were close once, but that was before Melissa withdrew from the world....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story about three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love--"Dana Spiotta is a major unnervingly intelligent writer" (Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead). They've always been friends, and they...
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