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2020.
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The problems fracturing the Goss family as Christmas approaches are hardly unique, though perhaps they are handling them a little differently than most people might. But then a true emergency arises, one with the potential to not only ruin Christmas, but everything holding the family together. Is the arrival of a lost puppy yet another in the string of calamities facing them, or could the little canine be just what they all need?
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[2015]
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Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
3) Harmony
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""Gorgeously written and patently original."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time "In this gripping, timely novel, Carolyn Parkhurst follows the Hammond family as they give up everything. and ultimately reveals the healing power of love."--Kim Edwards, the #1New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter "A fascinating tale of a family taking a crazy risk to save themselves. I read it in one giant...
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2023.
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"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled--the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
7) Hidden
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[2016]
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Fourteen-year-old Alix is faced with a huge moral dilemma when she helps pull an illegal Iraqi immigrant from the incoming tide on the coastal English island where she lives.
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c.2019
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"The Gerard family has lived a charmed life. Carl is a highly successful residential developer with millions in the bank who married his high school sweetheart Becky, and they have a beautiful daughter, Meghan. But when Meghan is suddenly struck with a mysterious illness that starts out as chronic headaches and joint pain but progresses rapidly to affect her cognitive ability, the family begins to fracture as they search desperately for a diagnosis...
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[2018]
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"Jason has just learned that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan ... when he sees his mother being escorted from her workplace by two officers, Jason feels completely alone. He boards a train with the hope of finding his aunt in New York City, but as soon as he arrives in Penn Station, the bustling city makes him wonder if he's overestimated what he can do"--Amazon.com.
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2020.
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"It's the summer of 1974. Nellie's turned thirteen. Her best friend Maya has a crush on a boy. President Nixon might get impeached. And her mom's run off. The money for their family road trip to see Mt. Rushmore is missing and her dad's crawled into bed and won't get up. Nellie's sure the trip out West will fix her family, and she'll do almost anything to come up with the cash. But she begins to wonder why it's always her, the girl, who's stuck with...
12) No place to fall
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[2014]
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Sixteen-year-old Amber Vaughn dreams of attending the North Carolina School of the Arts to gain confidence in using her amazing singing voice, but her family's falling apart and she's torn between two boys.
13) Surface
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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Claire Montgomery has a lifetime of sensible decisions behind her. Yet all it takes is one impulsive indiscretion to bring everything crashing down--her marriage to a wealthy entrepreneur, her status as half of one of Denver society's power couples, and the future she dreamed of for their seventeen-year-old son, Nick.
14) Here so far away
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Pub. Date
2018
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Feisty and fearless George Warren (given name: Frances, but no one calls her that) has never let life get too serious. Now that she's about to be a senior, her plans include partying with her tight-knit group of friends and then getting the heck out of town after graduation. But instead of owning her last year of high school, a fight with her best friend puts her on the outs of their social circle.
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[2016]
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"Carousel Court is a blistering and unforgettable vision of contemporary life. It has the ambition of our most serious literary work and the soul of a thriller, managing to be simultaneously sexy, scary, and powerfully moving. Most of all, it offers an unflinching portrait of modern marriage in a nation scarred by vanished jobs, abandoned homes, psychotropic cure-alls, infidelity via iPhone, and ruthless choices. No matter what kind of relationship...
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[2023]
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After their father dies unexpectedly in prison, twins Alex and Olly's relationship becomes fractured as they cope with their loss very differently, and to make matters worse, Olly is hiding the truth that Tyler, who recently arrived at their lakeside town for the summer, is actually their half-brother.
17) Silent alarm
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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Alys, a Plaineville, Wisconsin, junior who dreams of studying violin at Julliard, must deal with the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting in which her older brother, Luke, was the shooter.
18) Deadly design
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Kyle McAdams races to find out what's killing kids conceived at the Genesis Innovations Laboratory before he becomes yet another perfect, blue-eyed corpse"--
19) Swim that rock
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Pub. Date
2014
Description
When his dad goes missing in a fishing-boat accident, 14-year-old Jake refuses to think he may have lost his father forever. And nothing else seems certain in Jake's future, either, as his mother struggles with depression and loan sharks threaten to repossess the family diner.