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Liv and Finn met six summers ago at a bar on the Cornish coastline. Finns life is in L.A. and Livs is in Cornwall - so they promise to return every year if they are single and spend the summer together. This summer, though, Liv crosses paths with Tom and they find themselves falling for one another. For the first time Liv can imagine a world where her heart isnt broken every autumn. Now Liv must make an impossible choice. And when she discovers the...
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A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events. Perfect for readers of Emma Clines 'The Girls' and Ami McKays 'The Virgin Cure'. Leslie Howard divides her time between Vancouver and Penticton, BC. From the author of 'The Brideship Wife'.
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A glorious and tantalizing new escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune.This summer theyll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different. Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesnt know hes her best friends younger brother. Lucy and Felixs chemistry is unreal, but the...
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Two generations of a folk-rock dynasty collide over art, love, longing, and family secrets in this captivating and poignant debut. With the richness of a beloved folk song, 'The Singer Sisters' moves between 60s folk clubs and 90s music festivals, chronicling the ups and downs of stardom while asking what women artists must sacrifice for success. Goodreads Marketing Campaign.
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Spurred by adolescent trauma, Louise adopts a life of hardcore punk violence until she stumbles into a job that shows her a more perfect world. But when that world is overturned, she flees to a marina on the East Coast, where she lives free from reminders of her past. But on the day of the Tragically Hip's 2016 farewell performance in Kingston, a man surfaces from the Bay of Fundy, giving Louise an unexpected gift: the chance to make things right....
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'Dead Poets Society' meets 'Scarborough' in this heart-wrenching debut novel about four students who find hope and kinship amidst the challenges of growing up at a harrowing madrasa in rural Ontario. 'Land of No Regrets' was the winner of Toronto's What's Your Story competition and is based on Sadi Muktadir's real-life experiences. He lives in Toronto, ON. #diversity.
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In 'The Second Coming', a call from New York makes convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan, fear his 13-year-old daughter, Jolie, is in trouble. Believing hes the only one who can save her, he decides to return home. So begins the journey that will, in time, push Jolie and Ethan - child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same - out past their depths. Book Club.
10) The Mother Act
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Smart and propulsive, The Mother Act is a bold debut novel about a mother who refuses to abandon her art and the daughter she abandons instead.Sadie Jones, prominent actor and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her fathers Shakespeare company, anxiously overpreparing for each sporadic visit from the mother she barely...
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In this extraordinary debut novel, Clayton Stumper was abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, and was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Claytons life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage. So begins Clays quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, secrets...
13) The Ending Fire
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Ending Fire trilogy volume 3
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PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE BATTLE DRUM, ISBN 9780593356975. Rebellions are like fires - something needs to burn to make a flame. Return to the Wardens Empire in this riveting conclusion to the visionary 'Ending Fire' trilogy inspired by the mythology of Africa and Arabia.
14) Swift River
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'Swift River' is a tender and irreverently funny debut novel about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. Essie Chambers was a former film and television executive, and she was a producer on the documentary 'Descendant', which was released by the Obamas Higher Ground production company and Netflix in 2022. #diversity.
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Jay Hoque vanished from his campus dorm five months ago, and his mysterious disappearance is irresistible to an aspiring investigative journalist like Aleeza Kassam. When Aleeza starts receiving texts from Jay that are not only coming from her own dorm room, but from the past - only weeks before he disappeared - they start working together to prevent his disappearance. And it soon becomes more than a mystery, as Aleeza catches feelings for her charming...
18) Days of Wonder
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In 'Days of Wonder', Ella Fitchburg is released from prison six years after she was accused of killing the father of her then boyfriend, Jude. Ella moves to Ann Arbor, Michigan, desperate to find the daughter she gave up after giving birth in prison. Forced to live in a constant state of deception, Ella finds that what shes been searching for is a way to uncover and live with the truth. Yet a central mystery endures: neither Jude nor Ella can remember...
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'How the Light Gets In' follows Eleanor and her family over 15 years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives. Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call home....
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