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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
2) The teacher
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"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
4) Chubby bunny
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Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Barbara "Bunny" Binks comes from a long line of Barbaras, that started with her mother and grandmother. She loves putting her hair up in "bunny buns," playing with her rabbit Ralph, and eating marshmallows.
5) Promise kept
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Promises volume 2
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Asher has maneuvered himself into a position of great importance, but his ambition may cost him his best friend's life. Promise and Asher have each come into their own, but will they ever be able to come together?
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Levine Querido
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[2023]
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English
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Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
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American Girl
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[2024].
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English
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Lila has decided to try out for Gold level gymnastic teams. But her best friend and teammate, Katie is feeling stressed by all the competitions. A day of horse back riding should fix it. Or will it? Is Lila losing her best friend?
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2023.
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"New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol. Warhol is composing an unconventional novel by recording the conversations...
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2023.
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"Sassy, streetwise Sammy is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her to act out, seeking attention from unseemly adults when what she wants most is protection. Meanwhile, in a small Eastern European village, sweet Nico is about to turn 13. As her family falls upon desperate times, her father receives an offer of money to marry her off. But when she's shuttled across the border...
10) Roses & violets
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Rosenholm trilogy volume 1
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Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Four girls receive invitations to apply for a school they've never heard of and make it through the unusual testing process to find themselves placed in a magical boarding school for students with powers. Once the school year begins, a young woman's spirit urges the new girls to solve her murder which has been cold since the 1980s -- but unbeknownst to them, doing so will put them in mortal danger.
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Titan Books
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2023.
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"Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm which crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow. If Olivia’s going to escape Chapel Hill and someday reconcile with her parents, she’ll need to dodge residents enslaved by the...
12) Penance: a novel
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2023.
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"On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls. Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot...
13) Holiday country
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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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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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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Author Jacob Sager Weinstein and New York Times bestselling illustrator Eliza Wheeler deliver a stunning picture book about a young Jewish girl fleeing Nazi occupation with her parents. Drawing on the childhood experiences of the author's mother, this story of family, immigration, and identity shows the boundless power of love. Vienna, Austria, is the only home Rosa knows. While her parents work at their store, she plays with her grandmother, reads...
15) Hybrid
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The hybrid volume 2
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Enclave Escape
Pub. Date
[2024].
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English
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After narrowly surviving several attempts on her life, Lee Urban retreats into hiding, seeking refuge with her family for the Lunar New Year. But the relaxing holiday turns into a heist when someone crashes the party with intel on the hybrid’s identity. Driven by desperation, Urban accepts a position within the elite Dragons AI team, a high-stakes gamble that will propel her into the heart of the turbulent West. As she follows the elusive...
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Geek girl (Holly Smale) volume 4
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HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Harriet Manners knows many facts. She knows that toilet roll was invented by the Chinese in 600 AD. She knows that a comet's tail always points away from the sun. And she knows that the average healthy heart beats 70 times per minute. Even when it's broken. But she knows nothing about making new friends at Sixth Form. Or why even her old friends seem to be avoiding her. And she knows even less about being a glittering supermodel success. Which she...
17) Swanna in love
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"t's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late―stoned and radiant―in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont―to an artist colony where kids...
19) Actually super
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Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Isabel is having an existential crisis. She's three years into high school, and everything she's learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet--a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. No, not in the comic book sense--these are real people,...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite...tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life. Narrated after the veterinarian...
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