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English
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body...
23) My sunshine away
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Language
English
Description
A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.
24) The accomplice
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Theo has been worried about his good friend Woody Lambert. Woody is struggling at school and making bad choices. But when Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to armed robbery--Theo knows he is innocent. Racing the clock while Woody sits in jail, Theo will do everything in his power to help his friend and save Woody from an unforgiving system where justice is not equal for all.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family. Includes recipe for red velvet cake.
26) Who asked you?
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Language
English
Description
Who Asked You? opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. BJ already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams--all while holding down a job as a hotel maid. Her son Dexter is about to be paroled from prison; Quentin, the family success, can't be bothered to lend a hand; and taking care of two lively grandsons...
27) Dig
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Language
English
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Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
28) High and dry
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"In this illustrated early chapter book, a young boy and his grandfather work together to save a beached orca."--
30) Royce rolls
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"A famous-for-being-famous LA family stars on their own reality show, but the sixteen-year-old daughter wants out"--
31) Expelled
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Expelled over The Photo that was posted to his Twitter account, Will Foster, seventeen, is determined to find out who took the picture and why he and three other students were targeted.
32) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
34) The hoarders
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Two boys in a dysfunctional family lean on each other to survive, including hoarding food and supplies so they will have food when their mother doesn't feed them.
36) Rewind
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An accident at a concert turns Liam into a ghost and takes him back in time to when his abusive father and dominated mother were teenagers.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories, real and imagined, that they tell themselves to fill the empty spaces"--Provided by publisher.
40) The moonlit vine
Author
Language
English
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Description
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
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