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Back in the Bay, Taryn is in complete bliss, hoping to kick off an amazing summer. After dealing with all the drama, loss, and heartbreak back home in Hawai'i, being back in San Francisco gave her a sense of peace and a breath of fresh air she desperately needed to feel like herself again. With a new job teaching summer classes at the university, the thought of getting to spend the summer with Derek, having the opportunity to bond with her brother and his girlfriend, and potentially rebuild a friendship with Lewis that was once lost, Taryn was truly excited to move on with her life. However, life always pushes for balance. Right when everything seemed to be falling into place for Taryn, a hu...
One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. An unforgettable illustrated novel for ages 10 and up with elements of James and the Giant Peach meets Waterworld and The Road. One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. Alone with only his dog for company, Rafe adapts to this strange new world by fishing cans of food out of the water and keeping watch. Boxes float by, as does a woman, playing her cello. Then, one day, Rafe fishes out a young girl, who joins him in his room — they don't speak the same language, but they will face this uncertain future together.
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, a woman mourns the loss of her husband and son at the hands of one of history’s most notorious criminals. And in appealing to their executioner, she reveals the desperate sadness of a broken heart and a working-class life blown apart.
"I wish this part of me didn't exist." "Which part?" "The part that includes you." "Why?" "Nothing hurts more than the memories that were at one point, the most beautiful"(Quotes from The Summer of Oh Nine). This contemporary fairy tale depicts the complex diagnoses of both Borderline Personality Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. With characters inspired by the emotions within us all, this allegory enables you to begin to see your own life, love and past reflecting off every page for none of the characters are genetically linked by ethnicities. For example, the main character, 19 2, is dark brown, his biological parents are blonde and his grandmother is pale with straight black hair and eyes with epicanthal folds. So relax during your read as layers of insecurity proudly begin to fall off and disappear in each chapter of The Summer of Oh Nine.
From the gang-ravaged streets of inner-city Oakland to the rolling hills of Berkeley, California, attorney Joe Turner defends the most hardened criminals. Confronted with an unlikely murderer in a modern-day whodunnit, Turner's latest case seems impossible to unravel. At its heart is a decade-old murder and a tangled web of family, loyalty, and devotion that has the trial hanging in the balance. Viewed through the prism of the unique bond of twins, Good Lookin' asks how far each of us will go to protect the ones we love.
"When Cody, a troubled fourteen-year-old, witnesses a murder, she tells no one. But it begins a spiral for her from which she cannot escape. Her worried mother Skye thinks a change of scene is just what her ... daughter needs and since her dream has always been to own an inn, she jumps at the chance to buy a dilapidated bed & breakfast in the Berkshires. But being an innkeeper is harder than it seems and Cody still seems to fall in with the wrong crowd. When Adam March arrives as the inn's only guest, he is accompanied by his rescued pit bull Chance, a dog who has saved Adam in more ways than one. Cody and Chance begin a wary bond and soon, Adam finds another rescue who needs the kind of attention he gave Chance years ago"--
Blue thinks being Red must be exciting since Red gets to fight fires and tell cars to stop, but when Blue tries being Red for the day he realizes the best thing to be is yourself.
Winner of the 2022 Nancy Pearl Award for Literary Fiction "Tavi Black brings the reader right onto the bus with an all-access pass to the strange life that is touring. This is a riveting read and beautiful depiction of the ups and downs on the road of life." -Norah Jones, Grammy Award-winning Singer/Songwriter "An often intriguing and emotional look at lives on and off the road." -Kirkus Four women working backstage on a rock tour each come to terms with being a woman in a male-dominated industry. When Alex Evans, a thirty-six-year-old touring electrician, is implicated in an accident involving the female pop star she works for, she and three other women on tour rent a house together in Tusc...
A DANGEROUS MAN His crusade of retribution has freed countless trafficking victims from captivity, sweeping across the United States like a storm, and leaving a bloody path of destruction in his wake. Who is he? He was a father, a husband, and a former government operative who lost everything he cared for to a merciless Russian crime syndicate. And he's arrived in Boston to bring his odyssey of vengeance to a close. Can he be stopped? Pursuing him is a relentless FBI agent with more at stake than enforcing the law, a hard-boiled detective suspicious of every piece of the puzzle, and a pair of cunning twin assassins who might rival his skill. At what cost? They'll risk everything being drawn into the chaos of one man's war for justice. Motives will be questioned, loyalties will be tested, and no one will come out unscathed - if at all.
Sentinals Rising is the second book in the saga of Remargaren, a vibrant, ancient world of high fantasy suffused with magic and adventure. Jerrol Haven, having rescued the king from the clutches of the malevolent Ascendants, knows they haven't stopped their scheming. While trying to learn more about the mysterious Sentinals he woke from a three-thousand-year sleep, he has to defend his king and country from further magical attacks.Should he trust the Sentinals in such vital positions? Can he trust them to protect the king and Vespiri? As Jerrol learns more of their capabilities, he realises there are more secrets yet to be revealed. Maybe those questioning their sudden rise in power have a point.Before he can delve further, a call for help comes from the neighbouring country of Terolia. The nomadic Families are disintegrating into chaotic infighting. The king sends Jerrol to investigate, instructing him to do whatever is needed to protect the Families from the Ascendants.