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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club--a new book that tracks an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years. Author Will Schwalbe describes his friendship with unlikely college-buddy Maxey through marriage, divorce, and career changes up until the present day, noting what makes their bond so special and enduring"--
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"When Tomas discovers a strange old tree at the bottom of his grandfather's garden, he doesn't think much of it. But he takes the funny fruit from the tree back into the house and gets the shock of his life when a tiny dragon hatches! The tree is a dragon fruit tree, and Tomas now has his very own dragon, Flicker! While Tomas finds out that life with Flicker is fun, he also finds that it is very...unpredictable. Yes, dragons are wonderful, but they...
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press (UK)
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. The year is 1896, and Polly is teaching in an orphanage, Sophia is scouting for a rich husband at the London Season, and Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters buzzing with atmosphere and drama, the friends air their dreams, hopes, frustrations, and romances. Can this trio of very different...
5) Past lives
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. Includes French SDH.
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Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Sarah Greene wants nothing more from her seventh-grade year than to beat the hardest escape room left in her town with her best friends, West, and Hannah. But when a foreclosure notice shows up on Sarah's front door, everything changes. Since her father became ill two years ago, things have been bad, but not lose your house bad . . . until now. Sarah feels helpless until the day Hannah mentions a treasure rumored to be hidden in...
10) High Top
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"He's fresh out of the box, with an irrepressible zest for life. What's the harm in that? But when his enthusiasm threatens to trample all over his friends, can High Top find the balance he needs to be the life and sole of the party?" -- Jacket.
11) Willow and bunny
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
From a Caldecott Honor winner and New York Times bestselling artist and a Christopher Award-winning author, a beautiful, heartfelt tale of friendship, community, and hope after a difficult experience. Bunny needs a new home. After a long journey, he meets Willow and knows he will be safe beneath her branches. Every day is theirs to share. Just Bunny and Willow, Willow and Bunny. Then, one evening, an angry spiral whips through the wood. Every creature...
12) How to dragon
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Douglas doesn't fit in with other dragons. Instead of battling knights and frightening princesses, he likes to spend his time picking flowers and baking treats. To get him to become more fearsome, Douglas' doctor prescribes some dragon exercises. With help from a clever knight, Douglas works to become the scariest creature in the land. But he soon learns that mean and frightening are not the only things a dragon can be.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In their familiar North Carolina beach town, Callie and her friends, Talia and Cleo, are joined by the enigmatic Polly, who introduces the idea of learning how to make themselves invisible, a plan that initially seems impossible but eventually works, leading to a recklessness that makes it increasingly difficult for the girls to return to their former selves.
19) Cancelled
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
High school senior Brynn Whittaker faces a school-wide scandal when a viral video wrongly implicates her, prompting her and her friends to confront the school's misogynistic culture, while Brynn grapples with the decision to expose the true culprit.
20) Witch & wombat
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Wilma, a young witch, cannot wait to get her very first cat! But when the pet store is fresh out of kittens, Wilma brings home. . . a wombat?! What a CAT-astrophe! A wombat is nothing like a cat, but maybe if Wilma puts cat ears on the little critter, no one will notice. . . . (Spoiler alert: they do.) This bright and fun picture book teaches young witches that our differences can be our strengths when we have an open mind!"
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