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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Clover hasn’t said “No” a day in her life. Until today. Normally a woman who tips her hairdresser even when the cut is hideous, is endlessly patient with her horrendous mother, and says yes every time her boss asks her to work late-today, things are going to be very different. Because Clover is taking the day off. Today, she’s going to do and say whatever she likes, even if it means her whole life unravels. What made Clover change her ways?...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks...
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's the morning walk to school and it doesn't feel right. The day has started gloomy, when it's normally bright. And, so begins a series of changes that turns young Miles' day upside down. Once friendly and familiar, everything on that school walk now seems distant, sad, or stressed. The weather. The community workers. Even the neighbor's dog, Daisy. At school, things don't lighten up for Miles. There, he's introduced to a series of new rules meant...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Dragon in the Sea is a riveting thriller of a submarine crew trapped in the depths of the sea, hunted by one of their own.
In the endless war between East and West, oil has become the ultimate prize. Nuclear-powered subtugs brave enemy waters to tap into hidden oil reserves beneath the East's continental shelf. But, the last twenty missions have never returned. Have sleeper agents infiltrated the elite submarine service, or are the crews simply...
Author
Series
Summer lifeguards volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Needing a break from the pressures of competitive swimming, Jenna recruits her friends to try out for junior lifeguards, but becoming a junior lifeguard is harder than she thought.
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undergo hypnotherapy to help kick the habit. At first the treatment is a success but, as the stresses of daily life begin to overwhelm him, he can't help lighting up again. To his great distress, he finds that smoking no longer offers him the ecstatic release it once did. Until, that is, he stumbles across a criminal way to recapture that intense nicotine joy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes Liam, an Ojibwa boy, has to retreat to his room and escape into his imaginary world with the animal friends he has drawn, who can reassure him that whatever happens he is safe and loved.
Author
Series
Camp confidential volume 17
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The girls of Camp Lakeview keep in touch through their blog as Brynn transfers to Candace's school, where intelligence brings popularity and acting talent does not, and Gaby, Val, and Chelsea do volunteer work together, while all of them struggle with setting priorities and getting along.
9) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Bean's beloved grandfather Gus dies, she discovers uncomfortable secrets about him, her mother, and the father she has never known.
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