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When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie, ever-present in their minds, loving but not sentimental, caring but nobody’s fool, a voice in their heads that is funny and sharp and remarkably clear. The power she has given to those who loved her is the power...
Author
Series
Saralee Siegel book volume 4
Publisher
Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Saralee Siegal accidentally summons Haman with her hamantaschen recipe, which creates trouble at Siegel House Restaurant.
5) Ferris
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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Coyote sunrise volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
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English
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Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan--and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend she'd known only a few months, Jess has been aware that he's the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast, The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore. Now thirty-one, Jess didn't bargain on Tegan eventually piecing together the connection for herself....
10) Gut reaction
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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At bedtime, when lights go out, sometimes thoughts stay on. Scary things and worries flutter and flap around. It's so hard to sleep! But a little imagination (and a lot of love) can create a cozy nest for happy thoughts--and sweet dreams for little ones.
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Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Dad's hair was sick of being brushed and combed. It was tired of hanging around on his head. It wanted a life of its own. It wanted to see the world. One day, it coiled itself, and sprang. It cut along the hall to the living room, over the kitchen table, and out through the open window to freedom. But my father doesn't give up easily. He set off to get it back.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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All Ruby wanted was a fresh start. But after an early retirement and a relocation to a tight-knit community with her husband, Tom, and her daughter, Lily, her new beginning takes a turn. First her troubled daughter and then her husband disappear without a trace. Unsure how to cope, grief-ridden Ruby turns to her neighborhood friends to find a way forward with new hobbies, including a murder club where they try to solve cold cases. But just as unexpectedly...
15) Greta & Valdin
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladislavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian...
16) Holiday country
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and "bad apples": the...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Inspired by the author's family history, this...story transports us to the aftermath of World War II where her father, Josef Helfer, after returning from the war an amputee, managed a convalescent home for the war-wounded and became obsessed with the home's unlikely and remarkable library.
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