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41) The Shadow-Line
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A new captain must lead his crew to safety and face his own internal struggles as he works to overcome disrespect, insanity, and coming-of-age all while sailing on an unforgiving sea.
There is an invisible line that divides life into a before and after-adolescence and adulthood. The unnamed narrator of The Shadow Line is painfully aware of this, but is unsure where the line lies in his life. He recalls a number of rash decisions he has made, some...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Dublin, 1962. Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of the city's Magdalen Laundries. Once places of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. Some inmates are "fallen" women—unwed mothers, prostitutes, or petty criminals. Most are ordinary girls whose only sin lies in being too pretty, too independent, or tempting the wrong man. Among them is sixteen-year-old Teagan Tiernan,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
45) The quiet girl
Publisher
Allied Vaughn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Gaeilge
Description
A young girl discovers a new way of life when she is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Heather O'Neill's critically acclaimed debut novel, with a new introduction from the author to celebrate its ten-year anniversary
Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself and is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that "chocolate milk" is Jules' slang...
Author
Series
Chip Harrison mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ever-randy hero of Lawrence Block's No Score flees New York City for South Carolina, where a job in a whorehouse gives him an opportunity for lots of loving and lots of trouble Flat broke and sick of freezing to death in New York City, the permanently aroused Chip Harrison hops on a bus to warmer climes, landing in the quiet hamlet of Bordentown, South Carolina. With his usual clumsy charm, the aspiring lecher backs his way into a job
...Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age and modern family drama, set in the queer underground of late 90s Portland, that explores the complications of belonging--to a city, a culture, and a family--and what happens when those forms can't quite contain who you really are"--
50) Bones of Faerie
Author
Series
Bones of Faerie trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Liza travels through war-ravaged territory in a struggle to bridge the faerie and human worlds and to bring back her mother while learning of her own powers and that magic can be controlled.
51) Martin Eden
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American writer Jack London. The book follows the tradition of the Künstlerroman, a narrative that traces the life and development of an artist, to tell the story of a young man not unlike London himself. Part fiction, part autobiography, Martin Eden examines the consequences of dreams and achievements, successes and failures, for a young artist struggling with fame. The novel is heavily influenced by London's socialist...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter
Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can't understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter
Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can't understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously...
Author
Series
Rube Goldberg (Brandon T. Snider) volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Just as Rube and his two best friends, Boob and Pearl, are busy agonizing over the Switcheroo Dance and planning Pearl's campaign for class president, they discover that Beechwood was once a sundown town and Rube realizes that racism and bigotry still exist there.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit circle that will stick together through all four years. There's Gemma, an insecure theater major from London; John, a tall, handsome, and wealthy New Englander; Max, John's cousin and a shy pre-med major; Khaled, a wise-cracking prince from Abu Dhabi; and Ruby, a beautiful art history major. But Malin isn't quite like the rest of her friends. She's an expert at hiding her...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
The perfect read for fans of The White Lotus or Succession
"As a novelist, Tarkington is the real deal. I can't wait to see this story reach a wide audience."
-Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
When Charlie Boykin was young, he thought his life with his single mother on the working-class side of Nashville was perfectly fine. But when his mother arranges for him to be admitted as a scholarship student to an elite private school, he is...
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When she finds her great-great grandmother's diary hidden in a wall in the family's house in Maine, Georgia begins to contemplate her own troubles as she reads about previous generations of her family and their secrets.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo.
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