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101) Heavy crown
Author
Series
Brutal birthright romances volume 6
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"She was a temptation he couldn't resist...Sebastian Gallo couldn't believe it when her saw her being stuffed into a trunk: Yelena Yenina, the only daughter of the most vicious Bratva boss in Chicago. The Bratva hate Sebastian's family - in fact, they burned his uncle alive. He should have just left Yelena to her fate. But she fought like a Valkyrie - gorgeous, ferocious, and unbreakable. Sebastian had to save her, and after feeling the electricity...
102) Mommy's new friend
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
Even though it was not easy at first, Lily learns how to embrace Mommy's new friend Carl as a member of her family.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The four women of the Gardin family live side-by-side in Edin, Georgia, but residing in tight proximity doesn’t mean everything is picture-perfect. Ruth runs the family’s multimillion-dollar peanut business, a legacy of the Gardins’ formerly enslaved ancestors. But tensions have intensified since the death of her husband, Beau, and she feels like an outsider in the very place she wishes to belong. Sisters Mary and Martha fuel the family tension....
104) Pocketful of poseys
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When their mother Cinny dies, forty-something twins Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are sent on a trip around the world to scatter her ashes. Joined by their own immediate families, Grace and Brian set off on a funereal odyssey that uncovers more about their parents' relationship, and themselves, than the twins find it easy to admit.
106) Not simple
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A story within a story, a book within a book, a tale about the search for family, for an emotional home.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Cruzita is going to be a pop star. All she has to do is win a singing contest at her favorite theme park and get famous. But she can’t go to the theme park this summer. Instead, she has to help out at her family’s bakery, which has been struggling ever since Tío Chuy died. Cruzita’s great-uncle poured his heart into the bakery―the family legacy―and now that he’s gone, nothing is the same. When Cruzita’s not rolling uneven tortillas...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel tells his class about the family and friends he loves. He draws pictures to show while he talks about each one and their special memories together, from playing cars with Miss Elaina to Dad Tiger putting Daniel up on his shoulders"--
109) To & fro
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ani, journeying across a great distance accompanied by a stolen kitten, meets many people along her way, but her encounters only convince her that she is meant to keep searching. Annamae, journeying from childhood to young adulthood alongside her mother, older brother, and the denizens of her Manhattan neighborhood, never outgrows her yearning for a friend she cannot describe. From their different worlds, Annamae and Ani reach across the divide,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
111) Murder in masquerade
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Countess Amelia Amesbury's secret hobby, writing an advice column for a London penny paper, has gotten her into hot water before; after all, Amelia will do whatever it takes to help a reader in need. But now, handsome Marquis Simon Bainbridge desperately needs her assistance. His beloved younger sister Marielle has written Lady Agony seeking advice on her plans to elope with a man her family does not approve of. Determined to save his sister...
112) Where is Poppy?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It’s Passover time and everything seems the same, but there’s one major problem. Poppy is gone. And it’s just not Passover without Poppy. Mama says he’s still here, and Aunty says to keep looking, but where? This young child searches and searches but can’t find Poppy anywhere. All of Poppy’s favorite people are here though, and so are the special traditions he taught them. Suddenly she starts to realize that maybe, just maybe, Poppy is...
113) Love like chocolate
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[ 2023]
Language
English
Description
"An older sibling teaches a new younger sibling about their family's traditions, all of which revolve around chocolate"--
114) Not dead enough
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything changed. Charlotte wants desperately to get back to "normal," --whatever that means now-- and start reconnecting with friends she hasn't spoken to in months. And she's trying to work through her PTSD with the help of her therapist, only she can't tell the truth about Jerry or what really happened the night he died. Just when Charlotte thinks she might be...
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On mean Harp Bittlemore's blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don't grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away. But Willa Bittlemore, just...
116) Boy's life
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson--a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake--and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround...
117) Listen to this
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lily, Maddie, and Sasha have always been the perfect friendship trio. But this year, everything is changing. Maddie and Sasha made the elite soccer team, and Lily feels that they’re always leaving her behind. And everyone seems to have secrets now: Maddie, and Sasha, and Lily’s sister, and even Lily herself. Lily’s classmate Will wishes he had some secrets. After all, his life is already out there for the whole world to hear about, thanks to...
118) Painting the game
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy's father is a minor league baseball player, a professional pitcher hoping to get called up to the majors, and Lucy inherited his passion for the game. But she's never played pitcher. She worries her skills would be compared to her dad's and she'd never measure up. And his pitching may mean big things for his career and their family, but it's also what keeps him away from home so much of the year. Sometimes, Lucy isn't sure what would be worse:...
119) Sing it like Celia
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Salva Sanchez has always been a fan of Celia Cruz, also known as “the queen of salsa.” Her love of Celia stems from her mother, who leaves Salva without explanation one awful day. Now Salva is stuck with her investigative journalist father in an RV campground. In the middle of nowhere. As Salva acclimates to her new environment and desperately tries to figure out why her mother left, she befriends a posse of campground kids who...
120) Finding normal
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a horrible storm floods her neighborhood, twelve-year-old Temple and her family are forced to move to a new town. They are some of the lucky ones, able to secure temporary housing relatively quickly. But Temple doesn’t feel so lucky starting over at a brand-new school halfway through the year and feeling a weird spotlight on her family’s situation from her new classmates. At home, things aren’t any better as her family struggles to adjust...
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