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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite the cineþaste to boot. In her final year of high school...
10) Three rooms
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman's endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the Millennial generation as it finds its footing in the world, from a shockingly talented debut author"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A portrayal of a young girl's youth in a Canadian town and her awakening to womanhood in the 1940s follows Del Jordan as she explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood and records the frustrations, joys, triumphs, and trials of small-town life.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1917, with many of his regular hands off fighting in World War I, George Bliss hires young Martha Lessen to help gentle wild horses, and as she demonstrates her unique talent for dealing with damaged horses, she finds a sense of family and belonging.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 5
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Jessamine Brady loves her Shaker sisters and brothers, but can't stop imagining life and love in the outside world.
15) All the truth
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"One night can alter a life forever . . . Emma Greene enjoys living in rural solitude with her husband and five-year-old daughter, Maggie, far away from her college students in Jackson, Virginia. But late one night, with her husband away and her daughter upstairs in bed, some of Emma's students trespass on her property. The ensuing confrontation changes Emma's and Maggie's lives forever. Nine years later, still plagued by nightmares from that evening,...
16) The mask falling
Author
Series
Bone season volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree, the stunning fourth novel set in the world of Scion. Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire. The mysterious...
17) Steal the north
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of love in all its forms: for the land, for family, and the once-in-a-lifetime kind that catches two people when they least expect it Emmy is a shy, sheltered sixteen-year-old when her mom, Kate, sends her to eastern Washington to an aunt and uncle she never knew she had. Fifteen years earlier, Kate had abandoned her sister, Beth, when she fled her painful past and their fundamentalist church. And now, Beth believes Emmy's participation in...
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