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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Cassie Woodson is adrift. After suffering an epic tumble down the corporate ladder, Cassie finds the only way she can pay her bills is to take a thankless temp job reviewing correspondence for a large-scale fraud suit. The daily drudgery amplifies all that her life is lacking-love, friends, stability-and leaves her with too much time on her hands, which she spends fixating on the mistakes that brought her to this point. While sorting through a relentless...
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"CRUSH brings together stories of heartbreak, humiliation, and hilarity from a roster of popular luminaries, including James Franco, Carrie Fisher, Stephen King, Roxane Gay, Jodi Picoult, Emily Gould, and Hanna Rosin, who share intimate memories of that first intense taste of love. Here are funny, whimsical, sometimes cringe-worthy tales of falling head over heels for River Phoenix, Mary Tyler Moore, Howard Cosell, Jared Leto, and a host of other...
3) Virtue
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible: smart but not worldly, privileged but broke, and uncertain how to navigate a new era of social change. Among his peers is Zara, a young Black woman whose sharp wit and frank views on injustice create tension in the office. Luca is equally drawn to an attractive and wealthy white couple-a prominent artist and her filmmaker husband-whose lifestyle he finds...
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"Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she's pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells -- and he's eager to introduce her to his easygoing way of life. But there are things Grace discovers that she's not too pleased about: A lack of cell phone service. A missing woman. And a...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A warmhearted, hilarious queer rom-com about what happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream and give up their dreary city apartments to buy a house in the country together. El is in a rut. She's been hiding in the photocopier room at the same dead-end job for longer than she cares to remember, she's sharing a flat with a girl who leaves passive-aggressive smiley face notes on the fridge about milk consumption and,...
6) Legacy
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Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...
7) The DH
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Embarking on a baseball season marked by his parents' divorce, Alex is confronted by unexpected rival Matt, a disgraced athlete who has been given another chance after taking steroids and who wants to steal the affections of Alex's crush.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 12
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student"--OCLC.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Crushing on transfer student Delia, Darren, the host of the Dillie D in the Place to Be podcast, must make a decision when his anonymous submission for her theme song contest becomes the frontrunner.
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 2
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit...
Author
Series
Sprinkle Sundays volume 5
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 20 cm
Description
While everyone around her seems to be in love, Tamiko is more interested in her own creative projects and does not see what all the fuss is about.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 12
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student.
16) Men I trust
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Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers toward something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are willing to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly not conducive to it.
17) The duff
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body refers to her as 'Designated Ugly Fat Friend' to her prettier, more popular friends. With her universe turned upside down, she ignores words of wisdom from her favorite teacher and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help set her apart from the pack and erase her label forever. In doing so, she hopes to land her crush Toby, and to overthrow the...
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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Séptimo grade va a ser todo un desafío para Merci Suárez: los maestros son más estrictos, las amistades son más complicadas y su familia es todavía... bueno, ellos siempre hacen que las cosas sean interesantes. Merci también tiene que gestionar la tienda de la escuela con un varón... y el hecho de que él es --pudiéramos decir-- amable hace que todo sea aún más confuso. Y también está Edna Santos, más mandona que nunca, especialmente...
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