Karissa Vacker
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when a rash decision throws Ellis's life--and her relationship with Easton-- into chaos she's forced to move halfway across the country, far from everything she's ever known. Now Ellis hasn't spoken to Easton in a year, and maybe it's better that way; maybe eventually the Easton-shaped hole in her heart will heal. But when Easton's mother invites her home for a celebration, Ellis finds herself...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Victoria is unhappily married to an ambitious and controlling lawyer consumed with his career. Burdened with overbearing in-laws, a boring dead-end job she can't seem to leave, and a best friend who doesn't seem to understand her, Victoria finds solace from the daily grind in her beloved books and the stories she makes up in her head. One day, in a favorite café, she notices an attractive man reading the same talked-about bestselling novel that...
43) Chasing secrets
Author
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people... but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city -- a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder--it's always the husband, isn't it?--but the police could never build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom--he drank too much to numb the pain, was abandoned by all his friends save one, nearly lost his business, and became a pariah in the place he once called home. Now, six years...
Author
Series
Never tilting world volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After an ancient prophecy is betrayed, a world ruled by a long line of goddesses is split in two--one half in perpetual day, and the other in an endless night--and two young twin goddesses set out on separate and equally dangerous journeys to the Breach that divides them, hoping to save their broken world."--
Generations of twin goddesses ruled Aeon-- until one sister's betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split their world in two. The planet...
46) Can't look away
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in East Williamsburg, she locks eyes with the lead singer, Jake Danner, and can't look away. Molly and Jake fall quickly and deeply in love, especially after he writes a hit song about her that puts his band on the map. Nearly a decade later, Molly has given up writing and is living in Flynn Cove, Connecticut with her young daughter and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately--victory. The Philippines, 1941. Tess Abbott, an American Army nurse, has fled the hardships of the Great Depression at home for the glamour and adventure of Manila, one of the...
48) Meg & Jo
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The March sisters--reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy and shy Beth--have grown up to pursue their separate dreams. When Jo followed her ambitions to New York City, she never thought her career in journalism would come crashing down, leaving her struggling to stay afloat in a gig economy as a prep cook-slash-secret food blogger. Meg appears to have the life she always planned--the handsome husband, the adorable toddlers, the house in a charming...
Author
Series
Next best junior chef volume episode 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows Tate, Rae, Caroline, and Oliver, ages nine to eleven, both on and off-camera as they compete in a televised cooking competition. Includes cooking tips.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she's living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world class psychic on the East Coast and Claire doesn't want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn't really have "the gift" and hasn't for a long time. She's a fraud. Meanwhile, on the other side of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer--all answer the call of duty, but...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going to save her marriage. But when a group of reckless teenagers trash the newly built home just weeks before she moves in, her plans are shattered. Those teenagers are the "good kids"--the ones on track to...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else, Millie Quint decides to apply for scholarships to boarding schools...the farther from Houston the better. She's accepted into an exclusive schools located in the rolling highlands of Scotland. The only problem: her new roommate Flora is a total princess. Like, an actual princess. Of Scotland. At first, the girls can barely stand each other, but soon Millie is another sort-of-best-friend/sort-of-girlfriend....
54) The leaving
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on--or tried to. Until today. Today, five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are...fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall...
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the peaceful seaside town of Cape Bonita, wicked secrets and lies are hidden just beneath the surface. But all it takes is one tragedy for them to be exposed. The most popular girls in school are turning up dead, and Penelope Malone is terrified she's next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope--and to a boy from her physics class. The one she's never really noticed before, with the rumored dark past and a brooding stare that cuts...
56) Shoulder season
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she leaves the only home she's ever known for the chance to be part of a glamorous slice of history. In the winter of 1981, in a costume...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dahlia is a successful Harvard student who wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what's worse--her memory of the attack has been ripped away, leaving a cold rage in its wake. Years later, now a paralegal suffering from PTSD, she sees a video of her attack online for the first time. Now, enraged, she is about to make everyone pay.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 440L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grand̈mre. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grand̈mre's heartrending...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Savanna Shepherd is a former art authenticator--someone who can tell a forgery from the real thing. She's got a talent for spotting secrets hiding in plain sight. In the wake of a painful breakup, she moves back to her idyllic hometown on the banks of Lake Michigan. At least she's close to her sisters again, and she's enjoying her new job as a grade school art teacher. Savanna even rediscovers her creative soul when an old family friend hires her...
60) Better together
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie's an aspiring stand-up comic in Los Angeles with a growing case of stage anxiety. Siri's a stunning ballering from New Jersey dealing with a career-changing injury. When the two girls meet at the Rediscover Yourself retreat in Colorado, they discover they are sisters separated as young children by their bitterly divorced parents.
Jamies an aspiring standup comic in Los Angeles with a growing case of stage anxiety. Siris a stunning ballerina...