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1) Never never
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning, they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love--every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be, the more they question...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tell me your best story: Anne McWilliams has lost everything. Her marriage fell apart so she turned to photography, only to have her world turned upside down again when a hurricane destroyed her home and all of her beloved photos. In the aftermath of the storm, Anne takes to the road to ask long-lost family, friends, and strangers a simple question: "What's your best story?" Can the funny, tragic, inspirational tales she hears on her journey help...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
4) Dawnshard
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 3.5
Language
English
Description
When a ghost ship is discovered near the stormy island Akinah, Navani Kholin sends an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"La novela cuenta la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura que es extorsionado, e Ismael Carrera, un exitoso hombre de negocios, dueño de una aseguradora en Lima, quien urde una sorpresiva venganza contra sus dos hijos holgazanes que quisieron verlo muerto. Viejos conocidos del mundo vargallosiano aparecen en estas páginas: el sargento Lituma y los inconquistables,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dead man running: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases--and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers a plot to kill a presidential candidate.
113 minutes: Molly Rourke's son has been murdered--and she knows who's responsible. Now she's taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mother's love.
The 13-minute murder: Micheal Ryan can kill anybody in just minutes--from the first approach to the clean escape. His...
7) Kill joy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Pip is not in the mood for her friend's murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920s fancy dress and pretending that their town is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder. But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn't the only case on her mind"--
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary best. "Language is a map leading to a place not on the map," announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of The Presence of Absence. As he contemplates his impending physical disappearance and the impact on...
9) Killer chef
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Chef and police officer Caleb Rooney searches for a murderer who kills by poison at top New Orleans restaurants.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Palm Beach murders: Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don't believe in love at first sight and certainly not on a first date. But from the instant they lock eyes, life becomes a sexy, romantic dream come true. That is, until they start playing a strangely intense game of make-believe, a game that's about to go too far.
Nooners: Everyone who knows Tim says he's a good guy. But the popular advertising exec has a problem: a...
Author
Language
English
Description
When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Although originally published separately, Modiano's three novellas form a single ... whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers--each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that...
Author
Publisher
ECCO
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away. A group of friends in late middle age, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about their shared past emerge. Two teenage boys sit in a drive-in,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Four novellas from bestselling author Lynette Eason take you to the town of Tanner Hollow and the men and women who keep it safe, trusting each other with their lives, and sometimes their hearts"--
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1547
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: "he continually saw the garden in his mind's eye without being able to touch its existence." This exquisitely beautiful novel by National Book Award-winner...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life's challenges and beauty from the award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman. A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas and their loves in loathing--with a special bonus chapter! Under One Roof An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell--a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone. Stuck with You A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry--and...
19) Trust no one
Author
Publisher
The Well Red Coyote
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"Witness Protection surviver Kylie Taylor has been through the wringer. After witnessing a crime committed by Russian mobster, Alexei Zhukov, and getting shot herself, she was whisked into WITSEC, losing the life she'd built and loved, along with the family and friends she held dear. Without warning, her new identify was burned again -- twice. Now, she has yet another life in a new town, and once more it seems, she's being hunted. Instead of an all-out...
20) Sleep donation
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time in paperback, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to...
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