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Park Row Books
Language
English
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"Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to give up on her niece's dreams and tells her so at their secret yearly lunches. But all of Poppy's beliefs about herself are challenged when her beloved aunt dies and leaves her niece a grand surprise-a...
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Series
Loose ends volume 2
Language
English
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She just wanted to claim her inheritance. What she got was a husband... Xeni Everly-Wilkins has ten days to clean out her recently departed aunt's massive colonial in Upstate New York. With the feud between her mom and her sisters still raging even in death, she knows this will be no easy task, but when the will is read Xeni quickly discovers the decades old drama between the former R&B singers is just the tip of the iceberg. The Secrets, lies, and...
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English
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"Formally trained pastry chef Chloe Barnes is opening a cannabis bakery. That's not at all what the twenty-eight-year-old envisioned while living the dream in Paris with a hot fianc�e and a Michelin star restaurant gig around the corner. But the rising "it girl" of choux puffs rethinks everything after a scathing food review and humiliating breakup make her long for home in sunny California. When her beloved grandmother falls ill, Chloe returns...
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Series
Mango Delight volume 2
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Where Mango goes, drama is sure to follow! It's summer break, and Mango is content to spend her time babysitting her brother, hanging with her friend Izzy, and binge-watching movies late into the night. Then she runs into her drama teacher, who has some big news: their middle school play Yo, Romeo! is headed to the stage in New York City . . . and he wants Mango for the lead role! After overcoming her mom's initial reluctance-and with some firm rules...
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Language
English
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"Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydia's standing with her school's theater tech club and Penny's perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys. Lydia and Penny decide to stay with their Aunt Grace and her boyfriend Oscar in Los Angeles while their parents are off on...
Author
Series
Melanie Travis mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
At the Howard Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she teaches drama, sleuth Melanie Travis and her poodle, Faith, investigate the murder of the caretaker. Melanie catches the killer with the help of her aunt.
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Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Priscilla Cilla Lee-Jenkins has just finished her (future) bestselling memoir, and now she's ready to write a Classic. This one promises to have everything: romance, adventure, and plenty of drama like Cilla's struggles to be more Chinese, to be the perfect flower girl at Aunt Eva's wedding, and to learn how to share her best friend.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A few white lies told during a simple game of truth or dare spin out of control and make life very complicated for a girl who returns home at the end of the summer to discover that her friends have become estranged and drama-prone. When Lia returns after a summer with her aunt, it feels like everything has changed within her group of friends. Everyone just seems more dramatic. When a few white lies are told during a game of Truth or Dare, they make...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs-in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt's struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan's stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding in the Hamptons....
10) Girls of July
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Told from separate perspectives, four girls, Britta, Meredith, Kate, and Spider, only two of whom had met before, spending an unforgettable July with Spider's aunt in the Adirondacks.
Britta is the bubbly drama queen. Meredith is the overachiever. Kate is the reluctant socialite. Spider is the quiet intellectual. When these four very different young women stay together for a month in the mountains, they discover that sometimes getting away from it...
11) Out of control
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Series
Gamer girls volume 3
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy is the newest member of the Gamer Girls. She loves her new school, her family, and her friends, but she misses her old life in California, too. After unsuccessfully trying to convince her parents to let her visit California, they decide to bring her aunt and cousin Jordan to HER! Unfortunately, Jordan's presence causes a stir with the Gamer Girls . . . suddenly, like Lucy's race car in her newest video game obsession Fast Pursuit Horizon, she...
Series
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, An Imprint of Hal Leonard Corporation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This volume selects from classical sources as well as contemporary ones to provide a challenging and enriching experience for both the dedicated professional and the inquisitive amateur.
13) We are gathered
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The bride, Elizabeth Gottlieb, proud graduate of the University of Virginia and of Emory University School of Law, member of Atlanta's wealthy Jewish elite. The groom, Hank Jackson, not a member. Not a Jew. The couple of the hour, however, is beside the point, because We Are Gathered belongs to the guests. Among them, Carla, Elizabeth's quick-witted, ugly...
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Riley Dunne loves being a member of the Red Club. It's more than a group of girls supporting each other through Aunt Flo's ups and downs; it's a Hawking Middle School tradition. The club's secret locker has an emergency stash of supplies, and the girls are always willing to lend an ear, a shoulder, or an old pair of sweatpants. But when the school administration shuts the Red Club down because of complaints, the girls are stunned. Who would do that...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and...
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Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to the popular edition from the 1990s, this edition includes the work of eighty playwrights, spotlighting the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since 2000. The book is edited by three theater experts who have carefully selected the strongest pieces for auditions, acting classes, and study. Ultimately, these editors reveal the pulse of the millennial theatrical scene. A special foreword by Broadway casting...
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Series
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"How to handle the increasing academic demands of middle school, organizational skills and time management, how to be self-determined, have grit, and a sense of agency"--
""Smart and essential!" -Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid"They used to tell kids to chant "sticks and stones" or "just ignore it." It didn't work. This book helps kids find the opposite approach: don't ignore it; understand it."--Tom Angleberger, Origami Yoda Whether you are just...
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