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Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Averil is on a mission to find the creator of the phone app her helicopter parents use to keep track of her.
"A fun, fast-paced story about a girl determined to cut the cord with her helicopter parents. Twelve-year-old coder Averil can't do anything without her parents knowing. That’s because her mom uses the Ruby Slippers surveillance app to check where she is, who she texts, and even what she eats for lunch. Averil wonders how...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Meet this pint-sized unicorn in this funny, modern fairy tale about perception and self-confidence from a Caldecott-Honor winning creator. Once upon a time, in a land where horses were mythical beasts, there lived a unicorn—a Teeny-Weeny Unicorn. He lived with his family in a palace—one that was extra-large for him, full of extra-large rugs and extra-large food. And when his brother and sister played chess, they used him in place of a pawn. When...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Oliver Jeffers, this stunningly illustrated, whimsical picture book is about finding your own voice and learning how to connect with others through storytelling. A quiet child in a boisterous family, Emma Wen dreams of a world that is peaceful and silent. When she reads about the blue whale – with a heart so big her father could stand in it – she has an idea. She fashions a boat out of household objects and sails from her bedroom...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 79
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With a garbage thief on the loose in New Mouse City who is stealing organic waste, Hercule and Geronimo enlist the head of the Recycling Center to help, then discover that the thief has good intentions.
''When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! GARBAGE DUMP DISASTERMoldy Mozzerella, what was that smell? It was my friend Hercule, and he needed my help. Someone was stealing and#x2026; garbage! A rascally rodent had been...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Éclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits - the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens...
6) Abigail
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."
''Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szab©đ's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright...
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, nineteen-year-old Audrey, the daughter of English nobility and facially scarred by her abusive, mentally ill sister, seeks God's protection when she runs away from an arranged marriage proposal, to find true love, safety, and a purpose to her life.
''In this Ugly Duckling retelling, New York Times bestselling author Melanie Dickerson brilliantly crafts a high-stakes, encouraging tale about a brave young woman, the true meaning...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Author, speaker, and pastor's wife Donna Jones gives women a practical, biblical blueprint for making regret-free choices in the middle of real-life conflict so they can exchange relational turmoil for personal and relational peace"--
"Author, speaker, and pastor's wife Donna Jones gives women a practical, biblical blueprint for making regret-free choices in the middle of real-life conflict so they can exchange relational turmoil for personal and...
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
"Feeding Ghosts reminds us how much the personal is political . . . an audacious, awe-inspiring feat. For me, it was an essential read." —Ling Ma, author of Bliss Montage An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her evocative,...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
"A young woman searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned. "Lizzie Pook is a master of suspense. The story...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The utterly charming Emily Leverton has a dark past and is determined to leave it behind in her respectable new role as a governess. But when she is recruited by a secret network of governesses who spy on the ton, it may just be a way to redeem the darksecrets of her past. Straddling the worlds of the ton and the working class, as an ex-solider turned railroad magnate, Zach hunts killers for the Metropolitan Police by day and dutifully attends balls...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's funeral that she and her sister, Yanne, have lived their entire...
13) Missing
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When the mother of a young woman goes missing with her boyfriend while vacationing in Columbia, she fears the worse. Although she is thousands of miles away, she uses everything in her power to get answers. After getting stonewalled and running into miles of international red tape, the young woman relies on her wit and savvy to find the answers. As time runs out, can she get the proof she needs to find her mother?
When the mother of a young woman...
14) Rebel skies
Author
Series
Rebel Skies volume 1
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ann Sei Lin's enchanting and action-packed debut, first in a series, will sweep readers away to an aerial world of magic, danger and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim, Kalynn Bayron and the films of Studio Ghibli. Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret — she can...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
''In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast. We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that there...
16) The partner plot
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor. To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she's thriving, but her personal life is in shambles. After surviving a very public breakup with her ex-fiancé six months ago, Violet is now determined to focus...
Author
Series
Table Titans Club volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"New-girl Valeria Winters finds new friends in the Table Titans tabletop gaming club, but when the club is threatened, Val must join the wrestling team and make peace with her bully to save her new group of friends"--
"Valeria Winters has an easier time finding trouble than making friends. A fantasy-obsessed nerd with the legendary confidence—and temper—of a Valkyrie, Val promises her mom that things will be different at her new school. "No more...
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Put on your springtime best and grab a basket, because Easter egg hunting is to dye for in this delightful new collection of Easter-themed capers set in coastal Maine and featuring fan-favorite sleuths from the long-running, bestselling cozy mystery series by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross! EASTER BASKET MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Tinker’s Cove businesses are clashing over a new Easter Basket–themed promotion to boost in-store sales,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny. Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, he's all but squandered his reputation as...
20) Kilt trip
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ready or Scot... Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world—anywhere but Scotland. But when she’s sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands—and save her own job—Addie packs away her emotional baggage and turns on the professional charm. Rugged as the land he loves, Logan Sutherland’s greatest joy is sharing the beauty of Scotland’s...
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