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761) So done
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program. Jamila Phillips and Tai Johnson have been inseparable since they were toddlers, having grown up across the street from each other in Pirates Cove, a low-income housing project. As summer comes to an end, Tai can't...
762) Searching for normal
Author
Series
Riverbend friends volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six months ago Shay Mitchell's life changed forever. Now she's just trying to survive school bullies, drama class, and living with her Aunt Laura above the bookstore. No one, not even her new friends, knows her real story or the reason she's living with her aunt in the first place. When Shay learns the truth about her biological father, she jumps at the chance to meet him. This could be her chance! Maybe she'll finally find the normal life she's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of mothers and daughters, hoarding, and healing. Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras, printers, VHS tapes, ballpoint pens...obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity--one made of order, regimen,...
764) I am here now
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Bronx in the early 1960s, fourteen-year-old Maisie and her longtime friend Richie start high school, as each struggles with an abusive parent.
1960's. Maisie's first day of high school should be exciting, but all she wants is to escape the world: an abusive mother and a father who is rarely there to help. Finding refuge in her art, Maisie meets Rachel and her mother, a painter. She catches a glimpse of a very different world-- full of life,...
765) Car trouble: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nicky Flynn is coming of age in 1970s Brooklyn, riding into his sophomore year at St. Michaels, the last hurrah of the Diocesan school system. A budding young actor, Nicky is at once sensitive, resilient, exasperated, and keenly observant - especially when it comes to his father, Patrick. Undeniably enigmatic, and coasting on vanity, charm, and desperation, "Himself," as Nicky calls his father, is given to picking up old junker cars for cheap at...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min., 124 min., 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marvin's room: Seventeen years ago, fiercely independent Lee left home and left behind her kindhearted sister Bessie to care for their father, Marvin. But now Lee is returning with her teenage son for a homecoming that's sure to turn the entire household upside down.
Music of the heart: A single mother with little more than talent and the determination to make a difference, Roberta Guaspari overcame the skepticism of everyone who didn't think she...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cowan had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. After her mother's death, she opened an envelope filled with secrets of her mother's past-- secrets that led into the dark corridors of the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children. Dorothy Soames' experiences there-- years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of a sadistic headmistress-- created a resilient child who dreamed of escape....
768) Moonrise
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Now that she's graduated, Audrey Nelson decides she doesn't want to go to college. She wants to moves to Seattle, and to save money starts working the night shift at the nursing home. Seth O'Malley works there too. When Audrey saves his ex-girlfriend's life at the beach, she becomes a viral sensation. She's enjoying life, going drinking with her supervisor and discovering sex with Seth. When an opportunity to move to Seattle arrives, is she ready...
770) 500 words or less
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Nic, seventeen, tries to salvage her tattered reputation by helping her Ivy League-obsessed classmates with college admission essays and finds herself in the process.
771) Now is everything
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The McCauleys look perfect on the outside, but this family is hiding a dark secret. Hadley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. When Hadley's forbidden relationship with Charlie Simmons deepens, the violence at home escalates. An explosive accident occurs, following which Hadley attempts to take her own life at the hospital. Her friends, doctors, family, and the investigator on the case want to know why. Only Hadley knows what...
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