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Language
English
Description
"From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ainy is looking forward to working at her mother's clothing store for the summer--and someday soon wearing a hijab--but when certain boys harass her, and the boy she has a crush on does not step in, she turns to her older sister for help.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U. S. and Canadian editions.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime."
Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home)....
Author
Pub. Date
06-11-2024
Language
English
Description
"When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists...
5) Middletide
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Erin Landry's lifeless body is found hanging from a tree on Elijah Leith's property, it initially appears to be an obvious suicide. But on closer inspection, there are clues that maybe foul play was involved in the beautiful town doctor's death. Sheriff Jim Godbout's investigation is going to disturb the peace of the quiet Puget Sound town of Point Orchard and especially that of prodigal son Elijah. Out of money and motivation, thirty-three-year-old...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
320 p. ;
Language
English
Description
The gripping follow up to the “smart, stylish, and savage” (People) New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick The Club—a twisty mystery involving a cursed wealthy family and a Surrealist painting which holds the key to three suspicious deaths over the course of a century.
Some women won't be painted out of history . . .
Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire...
7) The audacity
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 72 hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens' multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband Guy Sarvananthan to face the fallout-and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Why not: He takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
295 pages : color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
Author
Publisher
Pgw
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
34 pages
Language
English
Description
The fifth of author Jacqueline Briggs Martin's award winning "Food Heroes" series. A picture book biography about the pioneering woman farmer who founded Eva's Garden in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts more than 50 years ago and continues to introduce culinary herbs, greens, flowers, and wild foraged goods to Boston area chefs and eaters. She experiments with wild edibles and parts of plants that are not well known, and is exploring the microbes that...
11) Not nothing
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life.
Author
Publisher
Lake 7 Creative
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
152 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The cabin resort your parents own is a perfect place to spend the summer. There's swimming, fishing, birding--and your favorite visitor, Loretta. A regular guest, Loretta is a stand-in grandmother to you. So when you find her cabin empty one morning, you know that something's wrong. You're the detective in this mystery. Identify suspects. Gather clues. Make choices that affect what happens next. Navigate puzzles, from riddles to word scrambles. Then...
Author
Physical Desc
280 pages 23cm
Language
English
Description
An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that the condition is untreatable and those diagnosed with it are “difficult,” told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD
Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and folks with BPD are portrayed as especially hopeless by doctors and popular culture alike. When, as a graduate student, Alexander Kriss first...
Author
Publisher
Harbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Oolichan Moon is a beautifully illustrated children's book about passing down traditional knowledge from Nisga'a Elders and the sacredness of traditional foods, particularly the oolichan fish. Together, author Samantha Beynon and illustrator Lucy Trimble have created a children's book rich with cultural knowledge and tradition that relates to their Nisga'a ancestry surrounding the oolichan fish. With a playful text and vibrant illustrations, young...
Author
Publisher
Fairsquare Comics LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is this a dream or reality? He can feel her presence. He knows she's there, but she isn't. She takes him on a trip around New York. In all the places he wouldn't go before. Before the accident. From Coney Island to the Lower East Side, he's turning the pages of his life with the one he loved. The one he lost" --
Author
Physical Desc
251 pages 22cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Bannerman, veterinarian and amateur detective, deserves a summer vacation. Peter and his family head to a remote fishing lodge in northern Manitoba for a canoeing trip with his champion sniffer dog, Pippin. But a series of incidents color their plans. The lodge’s sled team of huskies has been poisoned and, at the same time, a floatplane crashes into the lake, killing the pilot and both passengers. While Peter works to save the huskies, it...
Author
Publisher
Blue River Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"On July 16, 1969, a rocket manned by three men blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida. Its destination: the moon. In the midst of the Cold War, civil rights movement, summer of love, and the Vietnam war, NASA accomplished what was thought to be impossible. From race war to space race, All About the Moon Landing covers the successful Apollo 11 mission to put a man on the moon and all of the events that led up to it....
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mela ends up in trouble when her little boat is swept into the dense jungle. She offers each animal she meets a prize for helping her find her way home, but the animals take their rewards without helping--then an elephant shows Mela that kindness is its own reward"--
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