Jayme Mattler
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Language
English
Description
"Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She rents a new apartment and applies for college. But when the college informs her that her social security number has raised a red flag, Jessie discovers a shocking detail that causes her to doubt everything she's ever known. Finding herself suddenly at the center of a bizarre mystery, Jessie tumbles down a rabbit hole, which is only exacerbated by...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cassidy Holmes isn't just a celebrity. She is 'Sassy Gloss,' the fourth member of the hottest pop group America has ever seen. Hotter than Britney dancing with a snake, hotter than Christina getting dirty, Gloss was the pop act that everyone idolized. Fans couldn't get enough of them, their music, and the drama that followed them like moths to a flame--until the group's sudden implosion in 2002. And at the center of it all was Sassy Cassy, the Texan...
3) Followers
Author
Language
English
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Description
Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss--a striving, wannabe A-lister--who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady--and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Darcy Barrett has undertaken a global survey of men. She's travelled the world and can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that Darcy's twin brother Jamie saw him first and claimed him forever as his best friend. Despite Darcy's best efforts, Tom's off limits and loyal to her brother, 99%. That's the problem with finding her dream man at age eight and peaking in her photography career at age twenty--ever since,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hazel Camille Bradford knows she's a lot to take--and frankly, most men aren't up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don't send them running, her lack of filter means she'll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate moment. Their loss. She's a good soul in search of honest fun. Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatible with his mellow restraint. From the first night...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Unable to convince anyone that she was pushed before she was rescued from the bottom of a hotel pool, a rising author struggling with depression and memory loss begins to question her sanity as elements from her debut novel mix up with events in her real life.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 269 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A powerful, environmentally-conscious guide to decluttering, saving money and growing a community inspired by the ancient practice of gift economies where neighbors pooled resources includes seven steps to learning how to buy less and give more. In 2013, Clark and Rockefeller discovered that the beaches of their community in Puget Sound were spoiled by a daily influx of plastic items and trash washing on shore. They launched the first Buy Nothing...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lily Bushwold thought shed found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a teaching job in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it. When the gig falls through and Lily stays in Bolivia, she finds bonding with other broke, rudderless girls at the local hostel isnt the life she wants either. Tired of hustling and already world-weary, crazy love finds her in the form she least expected: Omar,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
493, 22 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Duty. Honor. Country. That's West Point's motto, and every cadet who passes through its stone gates vows to live it. But on the eve of 9/11, as Dani, Hannah and Avery face four grueling years ahead, they realize they'll only survive if they do it together. Everyone knows Dani is going places. With athletic talent and a brilliant mind, she navigates West Point's predominantly male environment with wit and confidence, breaking stereotypes and embracing...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. Lynn McBride has learned to survive in the snow-drifted Canadian Yukon, how to hunt and trap and slaughter. But shadows of the-world-before have found her tiny community--most prominently in Jax, who brings with him dark secrets of the past...and sets in motion a chain of events that will call Lynn to a role she never imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the autumn of 1960, Angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown. At twenty-one, she's married to charming, handsome Paul, and has just given birth to a baby boy. But one phone call changes her life forever. When Paul's niece, Ruby, reports that her father, Henry, has committed suicide, and that her mother, Silja, is missing, Angie and Paul drop everything and fly to the small upstate town of Stonekill, New York to be by Ruby's...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...
14) Temper
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After years of struggling in the Chicago theater scene, ambitious actress Kira Rascher finally lands the role of a lifetime. The catch? Starring in Temper means working with Malcolm Mercer, a mercurial director who's known for pushing his performers past their limits--onstage and off. Kira's convinced she can handle Malcolm, but the theater's cofounder Joanna Cuyler is another story. Joanna sees Kira as a threat--to her own thwarted artistic aspirations,...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Five teens who were partly responsible for a death a year earlier are lured by the promise of a $50,000 prize to an isolated mansion by someone bent on revenge.
One year ago, there was a party. At the party, someone died. Five teens each played a part and up until now, no one has told the truth. But tonight, the five survivors arrive at an isolated mansion in the hills, expecting to compete in a contest with a $50,000 grand prize. Of course&some...
16) The Roxy letters
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet Roxy. She's a sometimes vegan, always broke artist with a heart the size of Texas and an ex living in her spare bedroom. Her life is messy, but with the help of a few good friends and by the grace of the goddess Venus she'll discover that good sex, true love, and her life's purpose are all closer than she realizes.Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless, rent-avoidant ex-boyfriend--and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Left with no memory of who she is, Wendy Doe arrives at the Meadowlark Institute of Memory Research, where she falls under the control of a doctor and his ambitious student, while the daughter she left behind tries to make sense of it all.
Who is Wendy Doe? The woman, found on a Peter Pan Bus to Philadelphia, has no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what she might have done. Shes assigned a name and diagnosis by the...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr., 17 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A country music star returns to his hometown for his country wedding to a Hollywood actress, but when he sees his childhood best friend, new feelings emerge.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.