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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
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Series
Hastings Natasha volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1683 London during the Great Frost, thirteen-year-old Thomasina and her friend Anne stumble upon Father Winter's icy kingdom where Thomasina gets a chance to make a wish--to bring her twin brother back from the dead--that has dangerous consequences.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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As the Twin Towers collapse, Gigi Stanislawski flees her office building and escapes lower Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry. Among the crying, ash-covered, and shoeless passengers, Gigi, unbelievably, finds someone she recognizes--Harry Harrison, a British man and a regular at her favorite coffee shop. Gigi brings Harry to her parents' house, where they watch the television replay the planes crashing for hours, and she waits for the phone call...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
On September 10, 2001, Kyle tells his sister, Cat, that he believes he has fathered a son. The next day both Kyle and the boy's mother head off to work and are never heard from again. Cat--a single mother of a young son--sets out to find her brother's orphaned child. Nearly a year later, that search is ongoing when her father, Sam, asks Cat to come to California for the anniversary of her brother's death. But he has another motive as well: to reveal...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
493 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
Secret walks and late-night phone calls. An undeniable chemistry. A tragedy that haunts them both. A powerful yet tender love story between two people who can't help but be pulled back to one another, time and again This is the story of Will and Rosie. The two are opposites in every way and yet they fall for each other as teenagers; nineties music, sideways glances, sunsets and bonfires and talking late into the night. It's palpable, inevitable: they're...
6) Paranoid
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There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think that twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston got away with murder. Rachel still has no idea how a foolish teenaged game turned deadlyor who replaced her soft pellet air gun with a real weapon. When a figure leapt out at her from the darkness, she fired without thinking. Too late, she recognized her half-brother, Luke, and saw blood blooming around his chest. Despite counseling, Rachels horrifying dreams about...
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Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire—to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only...
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"It’s 1967, and for young Richard it’s a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother’s abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain strong—but when he’s run down by bullies at his new...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually Leo becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe,...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Strickland County, a forgotten stretch of land in southern Appalachia, there isn't a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton's brother is killed by the Praters, the family who controls everything from the mines to the law to the opioid trade, he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that something good might happen, that he might have found the rarest...
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