Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
This was it-Sarah Jo Foster's last year of school! Even though it was home school, it was still school. Being finished-graduating-was a big deal. She knew her friends Abby Jacobs and Callie Morris were just as excited. For that matter, so were Wendy Granton and Laura Sanders who lived in faraway Addison where Sarah Jo had once lived. But now she was back in Pine Moor where life had begun for her. It would always be home no matter where she went. She...
3) All My Hexes
Author
Language
English
Description
Crystal left all her exes (and hexes) behind in Texas… or so she thought. Pastry chef and witch, Crystal, is living with her sister in Louisiana while she gets her baking business off the ground. The arrangement gives her bonding time with her niece and space to figure out where she went wrong-both in her last romantic relationship and in her relationship with her magic. When Erin and her little brother go to a pumpkin-carving playdate, the last...
Author
Language
English
Description
After her marriage unexpectedly ends, 26 year old Marisa takes her cat and moves halfway across the country for a fresh start in a nowhere town on the Maine coast. With free lodging in the form of housesitting a cozy, log cabin, Marisa makes herself overlook the town's local legend about the woman who lived there first. Some people believed Evie killed a guy, others think she cursed him, but everyone knows neither she nor her alleged victim have...
5) Alexei
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alexei grew up a Hybrid neither human or Created. He's spent his life proving to his father that he's stable enough to be on his own. His quiet moments are spent thinking of the one person he can't have-Amber. Until one night he's ambushed in an alley. The war he grew up hearing about was finally about to become a reality, and he was in the center of it.
Amber was living her life-or what she liked to pretend was life. Where she went out with different...
Author
Language
English
Description
To tame her darkness, she'll have to trust an enemy of magic. Skylar's best friend, Mia, is missing, leaving behind nothing but a cryptic note as to where she went. Worse, a deadly fugitive has escaped a high-security prison in Paris; and all clues indicate that he wants Mia. If they're going to find them both in time, Skylar and her friends have to become fugitives themselves. But with allies and enemies alike after them, this quest's gearing up...
7) Gang Style
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Isis Smith had a normal mafia life in Italy. Her father was the second in command until the day he destroyed her mentally. Maddox, the leader, did everything he could to help her, except nothing was working. So, he chose to send Isis to the states for her high school years to give her a chance to fix herself. He had to get her fixed so she could marry his grandson to take over his mafia. He had her name change and made her emancipated. He told her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cara Hughes doesn't have time to believe in monsters.
When Cara's older sister, Shelby, returns home after a year-long disappearance, unable to say what happened or where she went, Cara's family is thrown into turmoil-again. As it is, Cara's barely juggling her job, school, and volunteer work, and she's desperate to be chosen for a corporate internship-something that would guarantee a two-year degree she could never afford...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story. 2000. Benjamin's world is turned upside down the night he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that they are meant for each other, but a devastating mistake on their last night at university will take their lives in very different directions. 20 years later, Clara has a high-profile job and a handsome husband. But despite the trappings of success, she isn't happy, and she knows...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this stunning and propulsive debut, a town grieves the loss of a young girl-but some fight to keep the truth about her death a secret. For fans of Jane Harper, Ashley Flowers, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. The question For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call for help on the fateful night of the...
12) Boomi's boombox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Discover the life of Eliza Hamilton--a story about being kind to others for kids ages 6 to 9. Eliza Hamilton was one of America's Founding Mothers. Before she made history, she was a thoughtful kid who loved spending time with family and riding her horse. Her life changed when she married Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father who helped form the United States. After Alexander died, Eliza had his biography published so people would remember his contributions...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures-performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"-forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims proclaimed himself the curer of obstetric fistula, a horrific condition...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"These childhood best friends swore they'd never speak again. But that was before a surprise summer reunion gives them a chance to turn up the heat. Effie Olsen thought she'd never settle down on the tiny Maine island where she grew up, but she's returning from a whirlwind sixteen years as a professional chef in far-flung countries for one summer and one summer only. Her hometown boasts one of the best restaurants in the US, and lucky for her, Brown...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A guide for women to find financial confidence, say goodbye to guilt, and finally get ahead with money without sacrificing what they care about, from money expert, podcaster, and CEO Chloe Elise. This is not your average finance book. Like most people these days, Elise went to college not only with student loans, but also completely clueless as to how debt even worked. Instead of abiding by restrictive, guilt-filled advice, she set off on a new debt-payoff...
Author
Series
Texas Rose Ranch novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Justus Jacobi loves three things: her seven-year-old son, landscape design, and the man she sees only once a year. For the past twelve years, they've spent a surreal week together, but Justus has never considered their relationship anything but a dream--especially since they've never exchanged their real names. But when Justus comes to the Texas Rose Ranch to work, fantasy becomes reality fast... Houston "Rowdy" Rose is an award-winning vintner,...
Author
Series
Dinosaur sanctuary volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]-
Language
English
Description
"Dinosaurs are alive! In 1946, a remote island was discovered where dinosaurs never went extinct. Through breeding and genetic manipulation, dinosaur populations increased and dino-mania reached a fever pitch worldwide--until a certain terrible incident occurred. Afterward, dinosaur reserves like Enoshima Dinoland fell on hard times. Enter Suma Suzume, a kindhearted rookie dino-keeper! Can she be the one to save Dinoland from extinction?"--