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Pub. Date
2023
Summary
Helen wants to break the cycle. Raised in the deserts of Southern California by a family plagued with addiction, povery, and trauma, Helen's life was fraught with heartache and turmoil. Nevertheless, this fueld her desire to make it out. That was until one day, she broke. When Helen wakes up in a mental hospital, her mind is shattered, her memories are gone, and she clings to the comfort of not remembering. But, when a memory of her daughter emerges,...
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Series
Marked men novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Summary
Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule is everything a straight A pre-med student like Shaw shouldn't want and the only person she's never tried to please. She isn't afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just won't listen. To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess, and his dead twin brother's girl. She lives...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Summary
"In 2003 New York, a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, ill-fitting relationship, and artistic block discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author"--
2003. Artist and bookbinder Dawn Levit works in conservation at the Met. Nothing is inspiring her art; her gender identity clashes with the rest of her life; her relationship is falling apart. At work Dawn...
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Teen and Young Adult Novel Based on Actual World War II Events
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Boys & Men Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Military Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure, and Australia
“An action-packed adventure filled with wonderful characters, life, and color. The Deep Enders is a wild ride for readers!” ––Leah James, film producer
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Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
"A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence."--Publisher.
Inspired by true events on Korea's Jeju Island, the author explores what it means to truly love in the wake of devastation.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
Milo's high school career has gone relatively smoothly, so he figures he's overdue for an Epic Teenage Disaster. He never thought that when Marcos returns to their Florida highschool for the first time since freshman year, resolving their feelings for each other will trigger actual natural disasters which could become an extintion-level event.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile Measure
760L
Summary
Sixteen-year-old Ellia Dawson wakes up in the hospital with retrograde amnesia, unable to remember Liam McPherson, the boyfriend who insists that they are in love--Liam is devastated, and, desperate to reawaken her memories, begins to write the story of their relationship, convinced that it will somehow recreate their relationship.
9) El dador
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Lexile Measure
780L
Summary
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonás becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Diciembre es el mes en el que se celebra la Ceremonia anual, en la que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonás, un niño que cumple doce años, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
Chloe, who loves the darkness of her family's broken-down movie theater because it hides the scars that line her face, and Nick, who shares her love of movies despite his blindness, are transported into the fantasy world of the script they are writing, where they face adventure and tragedy that could transform their real lives.
11) Deephaven
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Series
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Hoping for a fresh start at Deephaven Academy, Guinevere "Nev" Tallow instead finds something strange stalking its corridors and teams up with another first-year student to unravel the secrets of this exclusive boarding school and its forbidden east wing.