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1) Three
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
560 pages 20 cm
Language
English
Description
1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is dragged up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past reports on the case while also reflecting on the relationship between the three friends, who were unusually close when...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Finn has always loved Autumn. She is a constant in his life, except it's in the role of friend, not girlfriend. Finn wants her to see him as more, wants to prove HE should be the man by her side. Even if that means heartache for the people they are each dating. It would be worth the pain to be with right person. Finn knows he and Autumn are fated to be together. But sometimes fate can be cruel to those in love"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level" --
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could turn back time to mend her friendship with Francie after a terrible fight, so when Lou befriends Cece she is eager to prove herself, but as she uncovers the truth about Cece's family, she grapples with what being a good friend means.
6) Plus one
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Agnes is having a tea party, but the first person who shows up is the persistent boy next door--who comes with an astonishing variety of animal friends (and an awesome mother).
Author
Series
Secrets of Oscuros volume 2
Publisher
CaribbeanReads Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"12-year-old JV is learning just how much truth lies behind those words. He has discovered that he's one of a select few entrusted with preserving the balance between the world's natural and unnatural realms and is now more driven than ever to know who his birth parents are. But there's another mystery in the usually quiet village of Alcavere that he can't ignore. He and his friends, Carol and Riaz, have received a cryptic warning from a supernatural...
Author
Series
Secrets of Oscuros volume 1
Publisher
CaribbeanReads Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Oscuros Forest is a place to be feared, inhabited by mythical characters of Caribbean lore. Everyone in Alcavere knows that. But when a disappearance shakes the village, twelve-year-old JV finds himself deep in the forest making surprising alliances in the name of a rescue mission-- uncovering in the process, a shocking secret that will force him to question everything he thought he knew." -- Provided by publisher.
9) The guest
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and again: sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. Laure has walked out on her husband--and their good friend--Pierre, over his confession of an affair and a secret child. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. As their friendship grows, Corky finds out America's hidden...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments" --NoveList Plus.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
103 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Astrid and Stella are best friends and intergalactic heroes ... After drifting into a dangerous force field powered by misunderstanding, it will take total teamwork to get back on track! Once they've recovered from that detour, a run-in with a fur-miliar villain and the rescue of an intergalactic pop star are enough to keep things interesting for Astrid, Stella, and their trusty robot sidekick, Bobo. They just need to remember what's most important--friendship...
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (676 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields' boarding house. Lou's girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Any premise would lead to slapstick, puns, lots of gimmicks from their movies.
Author
Series
Supernatural society volume 3
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Will Hunter just wants a quiet day in East Emerson. But instead: A bully won't leave him alone at school, His mom is struggling to make ends meet, Together with friends Ivy and Linus, he's had to save the town from a pet-napping vampire and a werewolf army. When someone starts raising the dead all over town, it's up to Will, Ivy, and Linus to unlock the centuries of secrets hiding underground and prevent a terrifying monster from being unleashed....
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an unbound life and together they begin to fight to take up...
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Andres try to enjoy their day at the local theme park while being pursued by ghosts.
18) James: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"--
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"School dances are tricky. Everybody wants to go, but nobody wants to dance. The music is too loud for anyone to talk. Teachers are there watching kids, but telling them to go out and have a good time. Oh, and at Kersville Elementary be careful because you'll have to watch out for ghouls on the dance floor!"--Amazon.com
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