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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...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the...
23) Other birds
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won't let you go. Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A potent combination of political, metaphorical, and mythical storytelling" from the prizewinning author of The Freedom Artist ( The Scotsman ). "Who can be certain where the end begins?" said Dad, shortly before he was arrested for the murder of the carpenter . This novel, the conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Man Booker Prize winner The Famished Road follows the spirit-child Azaro, who travels between the worlds of the living and the...
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"Haunting and hopeful...a magic so vivid it feels more like a memory than a work of fiction."-Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches
NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK BY Good Housekeeping, Gizmodo, Den of Geek, Tor.com, and more!
Walk through the door and leave all your problems behind…but you don't know what's on the other side. And once you leave, you'll never come back. Will you go through?
Maren Walker...
26) Gold diggers
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is authentic, funny, and smart. He just doesn't share the same drive as everyone around him. His perfect older sister is headed to Duke. His parents' expectations for him are just as high. He tries to want this version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. But Anita has a secret: she and her mother Anjali...
27) Time after time
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Best wishes volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Lucy Usthorn of Fort Worth, Texas, is super excited for her class trip to the Natural History Museum. Sure, Ms. Brock, the strict school librarian who happens to be dating Lucy's dad (awkward) is chaperoning. But it'll still be the best day, right? Wrong! Lucy watches in shock and humiliation as her dad proposes to Ms. Brock. Lucy is distraught. If only she could do this day over from scratch... Enter the magic bracelet. It arrives in the mail, with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"For Georgia, this summer is shaping up to be a big disappointment. Mama is busy studying for her biology degree. Daddy is working nights, and often the man who comes home isn't Daddy. He's a man who looks like Daddy, but walks a little wobbly. Who sounds like Daddy, but sings a little too loud. Georgia calls him the Shadow Man. So now, instead of riding horses with her friends at camp, Georgia is sent off to the country to stay with her mysterious...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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How did I get here? He ripped back the zip, his heart pounding as red dust trickled in and landed on his face. He stood, brushing the dust from his eyes, a sense of vertigo launching itself up his spine. One step from the swag and his eyes snapped open. He started to lean into a void. Over a cliff. Fifteen years after college graduation, four friends reconnect to keep a long-ago promise and go on a trip of a lifetime in the Australian Outback. Eliza...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Named a Best Book of the Month by Bustle and Buzzfeed!
Named one of the best books of 2022 by Chicago Reader and All About Romance!
As praised by Book Riot, Autostraddle, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and more!
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel meets A League of Their Own in this inspiring story Buzzfeed calls "a warm hug of a novel."
Franny Steinberg knows there's powerful magic in laughter. She's witnessed it. With the men of Chicago...
31) Snapdragon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town's witch and discovers the strange magic within herself.
Snap's town had a witch. At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online--after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. They make a deal: Jacks will teach Snap how to take...
32) End of story
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End of story volume 1
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Kylie Scott's unique voice and engrossing story are perfect for fans of Sarah Hogle and Tessa Bailey"-Library Journal
New York Times bestselling sensation Kylie Scott's sexy, smart and unconventional opposites-attract love story looks at what happens when fate refuses to give up on what's meant to be…
When Susie Bowen inherits a charming fixer-upper from her aunt, she's excited to start living her best HGTV life. But when she opens the door...
33) Make me a liar
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English
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"It's an open secret at Harvey Davis High School that Tia Dante can solve all your problems (for a fee, of course). As one of the few blessed with the genetic gift of transferable consciousness, she can slip inside your mind and do your dirty work--humiliate your cheating boyfriend, bring a bully to his knees, tell your boss where to stick it--and then return your body with no one the wiser. No task is too awkward, and unlike the competition, she...
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Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist's heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams....
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Searching for the truth behind the secret she's long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn't at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half;...
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