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101) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Description
One choice can transform you -- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves -- and herself -- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing for a holiday more joyous than any they've experienced in years. And Bart's safe return isn't the family's only good news: Kevin is enjoying married life with Isabelle; Patrick is getting back on his feet after paying his debt to society; Ava...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 300 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"It's summer on Nantucket and Alison is finally engaged to the love of her life. Things would be perfect--if only she could make peace between her daughters. Felicity, wild at heart yet a loving mother to her own children, and Jane, the extremely organized and high-earning businesswoman, arrive on the island hoping to get through these next few weeks without ruining their mother's big day. But when Felicity's husband reveals a long-term affair and...
104) Meant to be
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas. Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger sister until Kelly is firmly established. Kelly is studying to become a veterinarian. She plans to marry her childhood sweetheart and eventually take over his father's veterinary...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
106) The red book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
370, 20 pages ; 25 cm
Description
For Detective Billy Harney is the newest member of Chicago PD's elite Special Operations Section (SOS). When a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones. Asking questions about who's to blame, Harney finds the easy answers prove to be the wrong...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Stan and Joy Delaney are killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. The four Delaney children-- Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-- were tennis stars in their own right. None of them had what it took to go all the way, but they're all successful grown-ups. Then a stranger named...
108) Trinity: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, "Lord Jesus, if that ain't the blackest little baby born this side of heaven." Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors' promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather, who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi's red clay tobacco fields, and Benjamin Junior,...
109) Claro de luna
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
Contada con capítulos históricos intersticiales, Taína (Ty), de catorce años, debe aprovechar la fuerza de sus antepasados taínos para traer esperanza y sanación a su familia y comunidad después de un incidente devastador.
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
429 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
En el mundo de Yadriel, los nahualos liberan espiritus y las nahualas tienen la capacidad de sanar. Cuando su familia latina se muestra reticente a aceptar su identidad, Yadriel decide demostrarles que es un autentico nahualo. Con la ayuda de su prima Maritza, realiza su ceremonia de quicen anos e invoca a su primer espirirtu. Pero el espiritu resulta ser Julian Diaz, el chico malo del instituto, y Julian no piensa cruzar tranquilamente al mas alla:...
112) Slammed: a novel
Author
Series
Slammed volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope. One young man brings change to all of this. After moving across the country, Layken meets her attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor who has an intriguing passion for slams. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to death by a load of hay. A family, each member in mortal...
114) Chestnut Street
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie) is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Everything Flora Mancini thought she knew about herself, her twenty years of marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband's wedding ring -- the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian's small theater company, Good...
116) Barkskins: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 717 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete's son, Theo, isn't actually his son; he is the Lamberts', switched at birth by an understaffed hospital, while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife Lucy. For Pete and his family, life will never be the same again. The two families, reeling from the shock, take comfort...
118) Clock dance
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So, when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has...
119) A heart made new
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
549 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who is struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin's lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her. When a homeless young woman and her two-year-old daughter show up in Bliss Creek, Annie tries to help them establish a new life. But all the good deeds in the world can't change the ache in Annie's heart . . . or help her...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
The Montoyas know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers, even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. When Orqu̕dea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead Orqu̕dea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers. Seven...
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