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English
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"After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Given the ultimate chance to prove herself when a Russian defector walks into her post, brilliant young CIA officer Amanda Cole teams up with a fearless--and legendary--spy to unravel an international conspiracy--one shockingly linked to her father, a spyduring the Cold War.
8) Banana
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Language
English
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"A quirky and hilarious picture book parable about parental distraction and a daughter's clever solution"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
Author
Language
English
Description
While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
11) The still point
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Language
English
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Description
When Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, arrives. documenting his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie, three mothers, amidst backstabbing, jealousy, disappointment and triumph, reveal the sacrifices they've made for their children, for friendship and for art.
12) Maybe a whale
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubiishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her daughter Eden, after surviving a drowning incident, comes home from the hospital and starts calling herself Eli, the name she'd reserved for Eden's unborn twin, Lucy knows something's very wrong with Eden as her disturbing behavior escalates.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Discovering that his troubled adult daughter has been kidnapped, a washed-up movie star with no money to pay the ransom turns to his closest friends, a legendary Hollywood stunt man and a disgraced former LAPD detective, to get her back"--
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Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With her past set on haunting her, Simone, whose father was convicted of murdering her mother ten years ago, finds a chance encounter with her childhood next-door neighbor revealing a shocking secret that could prove her father’s innocence or destroy her carefully rebuilt life.
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