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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child younger sister, Sadie, has trotted the globe as a photographer, living off of art and adrenaline. When Sadie returns from a tough assignment abroad and looks a little worse for wear, Marin reluctantly agrees to a sisters' spa weekend on the tropical island of Saba. But her lifelong fear of travel is affirmed...
22) Any second
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Five years ago Elian was kidnapped. Physically and emotionally abused, brainwashed, now his captor sends him into the mall -- with a bomb strapped to his chest. Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way. When Maya stops Eli from detonating the bomb, nothing is the same. They are drawn together by their dark pasts -- and only time will tell if meeting each other will change them for better or worse. --...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleanor "Lenny" Rosenthal-Hermann is struggling to cope with her father's cancer, her best friend moving across the country, and her sister moving off to college. In this sea of uncertainty, dreams of romance with Dr. Ganesh may become her anchor. Okay, he's almost twenty years older than her, but he's about the only person who hasn't given up hope for finding a cure for her dad. When she sends Dr. Ganesh some very private selfies, the end of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody....
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found. A beautiful Irish girl, who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband. A young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations,...
26) Vigil Harbor
Author
Language
English
Description
Covid-19 is in the rearview, but things are far from the old normal. Serial terrorist bombings target New York City's Union Square, Cambridge's Harvard Yard, and other places throughout the U.S. as a catastrophic tsunami threatens the Northeast. Austin Kepner, a renowned architect of houses for clients seeking "postmarital solitude," welcomes his stepson, Brecht, back to their small "almost island" Massachusetts fishing town after he drops out of...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hayley Mills does not welcome the changes that senior year brings. She wants everyone to forget about her very public breakdown and remember her as the overachiever she once was. When she is forced into TV Production class with all the slackers like Lewis Holbrook, the two are partnered up. After a summer spent binging 80s movies, Lewis is ready to upgrade from the role of self-described fat, funny sidekick to leading man of his own life-- including...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace....
29) Twice shy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maybell Parrish lives with her head in the clouds, which is the sensible choice because her fantasy life is wonderful. She runs a cosy coffee shop, surrounded by friends and the man of her dreams. Her real life, meanwhile, is full of painful disappointments. So, when Maybell inherits a stately old manor from her Great Aunt Violet, it's her chance to change everything. Yet when she arrives, the house is falling apart around her, and Violet has left...
30) Decimate
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claire Huntley and her brother, Poe, were on a midnight hike in Montana when the woods went wild. A blinding, devouring light and a rumbling pulse that blasted them off their feet left both kids with little memory of what happened. Their father insisted it was a violent extraterrestrial abduction; his wild obsession would tear their family apart in the wake of the trauma. Fourteen years later, Claire, who's battled anxiety attacks since that fateful...
Author
Series
Kalix MacRinnalch novels volume 3
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
533 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now eighteen, Scottish teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is settling in London, though she still struggles with anxiety, depression, and self-abuse. Her new friends support her -- and all is fine until the Guild of Werewolf Hunters start picking off her clan, one by one. Most of the Scottish Werewolf Clan have a very low opinion of Kalix Macrinnalch, youngest daughter of the Thane. There is little sympathy for her illiteracy, her substance abuse,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Gemma's favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing--if she manages to say anything at all. She can't even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes--to her horror--that the popular kids from school have shown up to throw a party....
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