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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, a group of terminally ill patients embraces the joys within their reach: friendship, freedom, rebellion. Each in their own way is broken; each in their own way is stronger for it. In the midst of pain and loss, they find community, even miracles, and together they are determined to reclaim from life what illness has taken from them. But a singular heartbreak has led one to swear off love forever. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to make ends meet and her older brother serves with the CCC at Yosemite, she manages the household and comforts her younger sister with stories about an idyllic imaginary world. Desperate for a taste of freedom, she takes matters into her own hands-with tragic consequences. Distraught, she flees to Yosemite, where she falls in love with its majestic beauty....
1943) Hidden
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.
1944) Crows & cards: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Houghton Mifflin stereotype edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1849, Zeb's parents ship him off to St. Louis to become an apprentice tanner, but the naive twelve-year-old rebels, casts his lot with a cheating riverboat gambler, while a slave and an Indian medicine man try to get Zeb back on the right path.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Voices: Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
Powers: When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from...
1946) Lesser Islands
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio—a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that-little-and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about-old family lore about a great, great, great uncle who was split in two while connecting railroad cars-and the misery none of them will face. There are days at the lake, placid except for...
1951) Apple in the middle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four year-old Welshman Llew Jones is in jail. All he wanted was to see America and write about it. Then he met the extraordinary Butterfly Joe and his freakish family and got caught up in an adventure that got way, way out of control. Now his friends gone and Llew has to give his side of the story...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigeriangirl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's an inconvenient time for Sinter Blackwell to realize he's bisexual. He's a 25-year-old American actor working in London, living far away from his disapproving parents in the Pacific Northwest, and enjoying a flirtation with his director, Fiona. But he can't deny that his favorite parts of each day are the messages from his gay best friend, Andy, in Seattle - whom Sinter once kissed when they were fifteen. Finally he decides to return to America...
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
1958) Zheng chang ren
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 295
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Chu ban.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"At school Connell and Marianne pretend to not know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. They usually...
1959) Loner
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lona kills her days by sneaking into the dark room at her old art school to develop photographs. She kills her nights DJ-ing the roller disco at Planet Skate. She is in inexplicably, debilitatingly love with a bespectacled Doctor Who-obsessed former classmate, and in comfortable, platonic love with her best friend Tab. Lona works hard to portray a permanent attitude of cynicism and ennui but will her carefully constructed persona be enough to protect...
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