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43) Out the door
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First editio.
Language
English
Description
Follows a girl through her day in a busy city as she travels to school and back again.
44) Too much slime!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When oozing slime threatens to cover the whole town, residents work together to remove the menace, but is it really gone?
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal."- Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck. The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, whichestablished Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves- and losses- of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait"--...
47) Love and summer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living an unfulfilling existence at the side of a tragic husband, shy orphan Ellie Dillahan begins an affair that forces her to choose between an uncertain future with the man she loves and the desolate life she has built for herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"The sky is getting dark. In the city, a little girl is eating her dinner, brushing her teeth, and getting ready for bed. Meanwhile, her mother is putting on her coat and getting ready to go to work. Where is she going and who will she see along the way? As the night goes on, readers will see nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, doctors, police officers, journalists, and many other workers who help keep the city running all through the night"--
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 2
Publisher
Lion Publishing
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Mitford's village rector, Father Tim is running scared. He can no longer deny (even to himself), that he's in love with his neighbor, Cynthia Coppersmith. Cynthia, after all, sees in him a man of warmth and daring-if only he'll meet her halfway. But now a wealthy widow is pursuing Father Tim with hot casseroles. And the mysterious Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, bag and baggage-not to mention uninvited.
53) Zorrie: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives pass away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
54) The city tree
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A newly planted sidewalk tree in the city transforms the neighborhood as residents nurture it through the seasons"--
Author
Series
Cold River novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Everyone in the town of Cold River is gossiping: the Sisters Hemingway have come back home. Hadley, the poised, polished wife of a congressman; Pfeiffer, the successful New York book editor; and Martha, who skyrocketed to Nashville stardom. They each have a secreta marriage on the rocks, a job lost, a stint in rehaband they haven't been together in years. Returning for the funeral of the aunt who raised them, the sisters must stay together in their...
56) Squirrel do bad
Author
Series
Trubble Town series volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin edition.
Language
English
Description
Wendy the Wanderer's overprotective father never lets her go anywhere alone, so when he hires a babysitter, Wendy decides to venture out into Trubble Town alone where she meets Squirrely McSquirrel and other townsfolk.
58) Nobody's fool
Author
Series
Nobody's fool volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Language
English
Description
An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
59) Vigil Harbor
Author
Language
English
Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin's stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping...
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to an eccentric English millionaire, who has devised the ultimate pastime, Life: A User's Manual is a symphony of human irony, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, betrayals and bereavements, of hundreds of lives in Paris and around the world.
The apartment block's one hundred rooms...
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