Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changed foreverwhen Caitlin Somers chose her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomed Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, a magical, wind-blown island where two friends became summer sisters. Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
When young Halli Sveinsson takes a practical joke too far, he is forced to leave the House of Svein and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may be as fearless as he is.
63) The goldfinch
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
64) Beloved
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 268
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistently haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl.
65) The bee tree
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In the rain forests of Malaysia, Nazam waits anxiously to climb the bee tree, proving that he is capable of succeeding his grandfather as leader of the traditional honey-hunting clan. Followed by a text containing facts about Malaysia.
68) Up a road slowly
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After her mother's death, Julia goes to live with her Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still...
71) Forever princess
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 10
Language
English
Description
Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J.P. is really The One.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
73) Things that grow
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Boston Globe "Love Letters" columnist and author of Chemistry Lessons follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother's ashes in favorite gardens.
Author
Series
Gospel according to Larry volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a Web site that is receiving national attention.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves,...
76) Whale Rider
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new...
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
* Early Preview Window - A Kanopy Sneak Peek! * Available for Academic Library customers for sneak peek window. * Pre-orders will include free 1-year license to six of the director’s short films + an exclusive video conversation with Alec Baldwin. Three interwoven stories of youth navigating identity, first love, petty crime, and gun violence in a Southern American town. Brimming with energy and style, BEAST BEAST captures what it means to come...
78) Strive
Publisher
Flourishing Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kalani (Joi "JoiStaRR" Campbell) is a teenager living in Harlem, New York with her older brother Jacob and her younger sister Bebe while her mother struggles to make ends meet. Her college counselor Mr. Rose (Danny Glover) sees great promise in her future.
79) The vacationers
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
80) After her
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1979, when young women start turning up dead in the mountains of Northern California, her detective father's life begins to unravel, and Rachel decides to use herself as bait to catch the killer. Thirty years later, Rachel constructs a new strategy to smoke out the Sunset Strangler and vindicate her father.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request