Catalog Search Results
4) Western Lane
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Twelve-year-old Reggie Wong has a quick temper that's always getting him into trouble at school, while at home his mom struggles to get out of bed--let alone leave their apartment. Reggie desperately needs his dad back- except his dad is dead. Enter the Conductor, a peculiar man who promises to make Reggie's wish to see his father just one more time come true.
7) Gut reaction
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
8) Mid-Air
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Thirteen-year-old Isaiah grapples with the loss of his best friend as he strives to fit into a world that expects him to toughen up, which leads him on a exploration of identity and vulnerability.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A Carmen le encantaría cogarse un cartel que dijera "Cerrado por obras". Desde que perdió a su abuela hace unos meses ni trabaja ni se encuentra, y lo único que la mantiene cuerda es escribir su historia. Bruno es topógrafo, pero está más perdido que nunca. Últimamente sus días tienen un regusto amargo y, aunque sabe que no puede seguir así, el miedo (y su madre) no lo dejan encarrilar su vida como a él le gustaría. Carmen y Bruno son...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Eighteen-year-old River Lang struggles after the death of his best friend and reluctantly joins a research study for struggling teens where he confronts his complex relationship with Dylan's ex, develops feelings for a charismatic jock, and uncovers unsettling truths about the study.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow-- antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of...
Author
Publisher
Milky Way Picture Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Losing someone you love, someone close to you, can be difficult to talk about. But, sometimes, writing a letter can help you find the words you wish you could say. That's exactly what a young fox realizes one morning after learning about the death of his beloved grandmother, someone with whom he shared so many special memories. As he longingly searches for any trace of her presence in all their familiar haunts, the young fox soon discovers that only...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life--between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world. Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and through...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Hertle and Bertle were always a pair, though one was a turtle and one was a hare. They were utterly buddies, and best friends forever, and whenever you looked, you would find them together... until quite unexpectedly... the end came. When Hertle disappears for good, Bertle can only see a Hertle-shaped hole where his friend should be. He pleads with it, get angry with it, but the hole still won't bring his Hertle back. It seems like hope is lost......
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A debut novel from "an astute and limber narrative artist" (Lorrie Moore), Women and Children First is a gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town.Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. So, when a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Returning to her childhood home in Georgia, Deena Wood, when a landowner fighting to keep his family's land, dating back to the Civil War, disappears, and his property is quickly put up for sale, exposes a deadly scheme of illegal land grabs and property redevelopment that threatens her community and family.
Deena Wood’s life has fallen apart in the aftermath of losing her beloved mother, her marriage, and her prestigious job at an Atlanta...
Author
Description
"Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life's challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling...
Author
Series
WiCKed Sisters volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"As a lonely foster kid, Serafina Conte sought refuge in handmaking journals -- and writing her wishes within their pages. Now, in the quirky new age store she shares with her two best friends, Sera's intentions have paid off. Her journals are in the spotlight -- and rumored to manifest great things. Whether it's witchy skills, real magic, or not, Sera's finally ready to be the leading lady of her life story . . . Until her plot hits a twist. After...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request