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While working as a server at a retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend culinary school, Tommy Dees is assigned to train the new hire, Gabe, his first crush from summer camp who doesn't remember him at all, and as old feelings resurface, Tommy tries to keep his life together as the application deadline for culinary school nears.
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Preorder Mhairi's new novel YOU BELONG WITH ME – coming soon! You always remember your first love. Don't you...? 'I loved it! So funny and warm. A delicious read' Marian Keyes 'Hilarious, warm and life affirming' Jenny Colgan It began with four words. 'I love your laugh. x' But that was twelve years ago. It really began the day Georgina was fired from The Worst Restaurant in Sheffield (© Tripadvisor) and found The Worst Boyfriend in the World...
5) Hokey Pokey
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Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and badlands of Hokey Pokey"".
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Would you risk your life to help a friend? In Nazi Germany, friendship between an Aryan German girl and a Jewish German girl is strictly verboten, and an act of kindness might mean death... Throughout the seven long years of WWII, Sabine confronts how far courage can take her, while Edie finds her own strength to deal with leaving her father behind, integrating into a new country, and coming to terms with her sexual orientation.
7) Daisy Miller
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A Timeless Classic of Societal Customs, Cultural Disputes, and The Cost of Non-Conformity
Henry James' novella Daisy Miller, features one of his greatest heroines. At first glance it seems to be a simple story of a lovely young, independent American girl traveling through Europe. But her flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe as she disrupts the rigid social rules of the Old World, attracting and scandalizing all...
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly...
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Aristotle and Dante volume 2
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"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
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In the patriarchal cult known as the Den where Sable Ursu lives, female fertility and sexuality are wholly controlled by Men. When they come of age, Sable and her friends are each paired with a Match with the purpose of conceiving a child. In their second trimester, they are sent to the Birth Yard, where they are prepared for giving birth, but are also regularly drugged and monitored by their midwives. Sable is unable to ignore her unease about the...
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"Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party. The biggest event of the year is happening, and you're invited! Join us for Florence Hills High School seniors' last hurrah before graduation. THE LOCATION: A megamansion in one of Chicago's wealthiest suburban enclaves. THE HOST: DeAndre Dixon,...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
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When Claudia ends up with a broken leg after babysitting Betsy, a practical joker, the rest of the Baby-sitter's Club decides it's up to them to teach Betsy a lesson.
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Young and homeless on the streets of Toronto, a fugitive from an unquiet past that has followed him from his hometown in Northern Ontario, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by unusual sources of strength: his devotion to Sanskrit, the ancient literary language of India; the love he shares with Aditi--a PhD student in Sanskrit at the University of Toronto--and his vision of a future with her in India, a land he has never seen. Before they can move on,...
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The Olanders are a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya, the daughter of an Indian diplomat and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and build a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children. But love and prosperity cannot protect them from sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and the family's foundation begins to crack as each...
18) This I know
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Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist-compassionate, uncannily wise Grace-This I Know is a luminous coming-of-age story from an astonishing new voice.
Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for hiding things. She's had plenty of practice, burying thoughts and feelings that might anger her strict Evangelical pastor father, and concealing the deep intuition she carries inside. The Knowing,...
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"Ambitious small town girl Lois Lane tackles a summer in the big city with gusto, but a cavalcade of setbacks--including an annoying frenemy roommate, a beyond tedious internship at a suddenly corporatized website, and a boss who demotes her to coffee-fetching minion--threatens to derail her extremely detailed life plan. And, you know, her entire future. When Lois uncovers a potentially explosive scandal, she must team up with the last person she'd...
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