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41) Sam: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"What happens to a girl’s sense of joy and belonging—to her belief in herself—as she becomes a woman? This unforgettable portrait of coming-of-age offers subtle yet powerful reflections on class, parenthood, addiction, lust, and the irrepressible power of dreams. “There is a girl, and her name is Sam.” So begins Allegra Goodman’s moving and wise new novel. Sam is seven years old and living in Beverley, Massachusetts. She adores her...
42) Heart of palm
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
When a business opportunity comes to the small town of Utina, Florida, it causes strife within the Bravo family.
43) Upstate
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A British property developer faces philosophical questions about family and suffering when one of his estranged daughters falls into a severe depression.
45) Franny and Zooey
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1955-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fianc�e Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate t�ete-�a-t�ete with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous...
48) Dirt: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Galen, a twenty-two year-old man controlled by his mother, adopts a New Age lifestyle in order to free himself from her, but is ultimately undone by his lust for his seductive seventeen year-old cousin, Jennifer.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove . . . meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink―who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled―the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally...
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Language
English
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Description
"Chloe Cates is missing. The 13-year-old star of the hit YouTube series, 'CC and Me,' has disappeared, and nobody knows where she’s gone — least of all ruthless momager Jennifer Scarborough, who has spent much of her daughter’s young life crafting a child celebrity persona that is finally beginning to pay off. And in Chloe’s absence, the faux-fairytale world that supported that persona begins to fracture, revealing secrets capable of reducing...
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Language
English
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"In Bledsoe, Georgia during a sticky summer in the mid-2000s, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles on a stilt house in the midst of a neighboring swamp, and upon Andy, a boy about her age. Andy and his father Nile Webber have recently moved back to Georgia from California, and rumors about Nile's wife's death have chased them there and back. Andy-tall, unschooled, and living in poverty with Nile-fascinates and enamors Kay. Kay is willful and loud-mouthed...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt's "eerie and compelling" (Paula Hawkins) debut novel, is a wholly unique reimagining of the infamous true story of Lizzie Borden, who gained celebrity status after being tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to the maid: Someone's killed father. The brutal axe-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their house in Fall River, Massachusetts...
55) Shrink thyself
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Traces how a man's attempt to pursue an unexamined life is hampered by his inappropriate therapist and the over-the-top death of his mother.
57) Those girls
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father's temper. One night, a fight gets out of hand and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. As events spiral out of control they find themselves in a horrifying situation...
59) Machine: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning"--
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