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1) Sign me up
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Alyssa is an ice skater who prefers to skate alone. She lives in rural Alaska, where a quiet frozen lake is her happy place. But now she’s moving to sunny, loud Los Angeles. As the new girl in town, Alyssa isn’t sure if she’ll ever fit in. When the local roller derby team takes Alyssa under its wing, she’s not sure she wants to trade her ice skates and solitude for roller skates and teammates. Alyssa decides to leave her comfort zone. Will...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Lotti is a shy girl who retreats into a world of books and reading, but eventually learns to make friends with other kids who share her passion, and reconnects with the real world (including her brother). Includes reading recommendations throughout.
3) A for effort
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During his freshman year of high school, Jay enrolls in Theater 101 and finds himself struggling like never before as he tries to balance Shakespeare with biology and geometry, wondering if he has it in him to deliver an A+ performance.
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"Deciding to spend her 70th birthday alone in her Cape Cod seashore cottage, hiding from her interfering family, widow Cecilia Lapthorne instead finds an unexpected houseguest, struggling artist Lily, and, allowing her to stay, settles in for a summer of self-discovery, self-belief and second chances"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to her hometown in England after living abroad for sixty years. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss, and she retreats from the world into a life of dull routine. Then one winter night, a chance encounter with a mouse sets Helen on a surprising journey."--
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Twenty years after making a pact to say “yes” to whatever life throws at them, which led to wonderful, life-changing results, four best friends, having reached their bandwidth of responsibilities, decide to reconnect to the passionate, fun and fulfilled people they were before, and so begins the “Year of No.”
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Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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To keep the devil at bay, her beauty-obsessed kingdom sacrifices unattractive children to hell’s entrance every season, prompting plain, poor, plus-sized, autistic Alesta to travel to the very depths of hell to avenge her best friend’s death and stop the sacrifices forever.
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Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it's off-season with most...
11) Spy ring
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"With codewords and secret signals perfected, best friends Rachel and Joon are ready to spend their summer practicing spycraft—especially if they can uncover secrets like the one Joon’s parents have been keeping, that his family is about to move out of town. When eavesdropping leads them to a ring rumored to have belonged to Anna “Nancy” Smith Strong—according to local Long Island legend, the only female member of George Washington’s famed...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"One woman was recognized as the premiere singer of her era with perfect pitch and tireless ambition. One woman was the most glamorous star in Hollywood, a sex symbol who took the world by storm. And their friendship was fast and firm... 1952: Ella Fitzgerald is a renowned jazz singer whose only roadblock to longevity is society's attitude toward women and race. Marilyn Monroe's star is rising despite ongoing battles with movie studio bigwigs and...
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"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
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"After killing her husband-a truly terrible man, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group of women who have come together to heal the damage their husbands have done-and to work out a plan to get rid of the bodies and get away with it."--
16) I wish you would
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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At the Senior Sunrise overnight, Natalia must work with ex-best friend Ethan to find seven of the class's confessional letters before any secrets, including their own, are revealed.
17) Sumo libre
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Friends Max and Kenji love wrestling, but Max loves lucha libre and Kenji loves sumo, so they come together to create something spectacular.
18) Kittentits
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike-riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly's adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty...
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Baby-sitters Club ; 70
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Stacey starts dating Robert, a cute basketball player, and becomes part of the popular crowd. She is asked to be a cheerleader, but she worries that if she becomes a cheerleader she might be too cool for the Baby-sitters Club.
20) Firefly night
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Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"It's hard to see in the dark...unless you're Firefly! Will Firefly be able to show their friends the beautiful moonflower? Or will sleep win the night?"--Provided by publisher.
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