Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
Author
Series
Someday Valley volume 2
Language
English
Description
The trees that circle Someday Valley near Honey Creek are dressed in their fall finest, providing a pretty backdrop for the local businesses--including the little bookshop loved by schoolteacher Cora Lee Buchanan. There, under the watchful eye of owner Noah O'Brien, Cora Lee and her sister, Katherine, meet each Wednesday. Their talk mostly revolves around one subject: their father, known to everyone in town as Bear. Both Cora Lee and Katherine worry...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Chelsey Calhoun's life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state--but Ellie's reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers. It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun's sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she's been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
2024, c2023
Language
English
Description
"Every family is complicated, and the Benedettos are no exception. A few years after a reality show skyrocketed them to pop culture notoriety, the five twenty-something sisters are living in their parent's crumbling McMansion, semi-famous and almost broke. The family's teetering towards rock bottom when Charlie Bingley, star of Captain Fantastic, moves into the neighborhood with his insufferable friend Will Darcy in tow. Charlie immediately falls...
Author
Series
Witches of Peculiar volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The students of YIKESSS are invited to a dance at the local public school, but they are prohibited from performing any magic or supernatural acts around the humans. -- Provided by Publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and lacking options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon's Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her near-magical ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers...and suspicion. For behind Cornelia's vast knowledge of the natural world is a secret she...
10) Any way you look
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ainy is looking forward to working at her mother's clothing store for the summer--and someday soon wearing a hijab--but when certain boys harass her, and the boy she has a crush on does not step in, she turns to her older sister for help.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
13) Unhappy camper
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Would you rather blend in or stand out? Claire and Michelle used to be best friends, but now the two sisters couldn't be more different. Michelle will do anything to fit in, even if it means denying her Taiwanese culture, whereas Claire is proud of who she is. So much so that she decides to become a junior counselor at a Taiwanese American summer camp. Sensing a rift between the two, their parents decide to send them both off to camp, much to Michelle's...
14) Darling girls
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
15) La encomienda
Author
Series
Narrativas hispanicas volume 699
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Author
Series
Witches of Peculiar volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twin witch sisters Bella and Donna peek into the future in this fourth book in the middle grade series that's Wizards of Waverly Place meets Halloweentown. There's a psychic visiting at YIKESSS, and twin witches Bella and Dee are fascinated to hear her speak at a school assembly. True clairvoyance is a rare trait, even in the supernatural community, and they've never met one before--and likely won't ever again. Except the son of the new owners of...
17) Sister sabotage
Author
Series
The second favorite daughters club volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Tired of playing second fiddle, new friends Santana and Casey start a club whose mission is to become their parents' favorite child by undermining their love-hoarding siblings.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Nia's spent her whole life taking a back seat to her older sister, Maeve, who's expected to inherit their mother's Seer powers: the ability to see the future through dreams, passed down to one woman in each generation. But when Nia, a trans girl, starts having visions of the future, she must suppress her powers to protect her relationship with her sister. Soon Nia's dreams become impossible to ignore, and she has no choice but to distance herself...
19) The red grove
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When her mother goes missing, a young woman uncovers the secrets beneath her protected community" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 2
Publisher
books4pocket
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
En esta serie de clásicos reversionados, diferentes autores reinterpretan obras clásicas a través de su propio prisma cultural para cambiar los cánones clásicos en cuanto a género, raza y orientación sexual. Esta poderosa versión de Mujercitas sigue la vida de cuatro jóvenes hermanas de raza negra que alcanzarán la mayoría de edad durante la Guerra de Secesión, reformulando una historia muy querida fuera de su perspectiva original. Carolina...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request