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New York

A Novel

"On a summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, two girls make a startling discovery: a young Arab man washed up on shore, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging against across the sea. When a simple plan to help the stranger goes horrifically wrong, all must face the consequences they have set in motion"--

Beautiful Animals

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The True Value of Friendship

Friends to the End

#hardcover #fiction #juvenilefiction #friendship #youngadult #bestseller #contemporary 

Missouri

The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.

Forever in Blue

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#hardcover #beach #family #fiction #friendship #humorous #romance #beachread

Texas

A Lowcountry Tale

The latest Lowcountry novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Shem Creek. When Becca Sims wanders into the beautiful seaside Gallery Valentine, she has no idea her life is about to be transformed.

Pawleys Island

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#hardcover #youngadultfiction #children #kidlit #middlegrade #eccentrics #family #friendship #explorers #adventure 

Oregon

Have you ever wanted to hold a little piece of the impossible? Lavishly illustrated in full color, The Doldrums is an extraordinary debut about friendship, imagination, and the yearning for adventure from author-artist Nicholas Gannon. A modern classic in the making, The Doldrums is for readers of inventive and timeless authors such as Brian Selznick and Lemony Snicket. Archer B. Helmsley wants an adventure. No, he needs an adventure. His grandparents were famous explorers . . . until they got stuck on an iceberg. Now Archer's mother barely lets him out of the house. As if that would stop a true Helmsley. Archer enlists Adelaide—the girl who, according to rumor, lost her leg to a crocodile—and Oliver—the boy next door—to help him rescue his grandparents. The Doldrums whisks us off on an adventure full of sly humor, incredible detail, and enormous heart. With approximately twenty pieces of breathtaking full-color artwork, as well as black-and-white spot illustrations, and gorgeous, literary writing, Nicholas Gannon proves himself to be a distinctive new voice with his middle grade debut. Be in it for the limitless imagination. For the characters who capture your heart. For the rich world you'll want to settle into. But most of all, be in it for the friendship. That, after all, is the true adventure.

The Doldrums

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Massachusetts

"A novel about two best friends living in New York in their early 30s, whose relationship changes when one unexpectedly becomes pregnant"--

Friendship

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California

A Companion to the DUFF

Kody Keplinger returns to the world of The DUFF in this brand-new companion novel!Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend's house every night because she has nowhere else to go. Amy Rush might be the only person Sonny shares everything with -- secrets, clothes, even a nemesis named Ryder Cross. Ryder's the new kid at Hamilton High and everything Sonny and Amy can't stand -- a prep-school snob. But Ryder has a weakness: Amy. So when Ryder emails Amy asking her out, the friends see it as a prank opportunity not to be missed. But without meaning to, Sonny ends up talking to Ryder all night online. And to her horror, she realizes that she might actually like him. Only there's one small catch: he thinks he's been talking to Amy. So Sonny comes up with an elaborate scheme to help Ryder realize that she's the girl he's really wanted all along. Can Sonny lie her way to the truth, or will all her lies end up costing her both Ryder and Amy?

Lying Out Loud

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Nebraska

A surprising and romantic YA retelling-mashup of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz.

Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll are best friends. And thank goodness, since their boarding school is basically insufferable. When one of the friends suffers a personal tragedy, a plan--and a secret--change everything for the trio . . . for good.  
 
Filled with charm and romance, and inspired by some of classic literature's most beloved characters, The Secret Princess is the perfect blend of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden--and the perfect companion to Jo & Laurie.

A Secret Princess

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just can’t seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures they’ve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.

The Nest

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It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list.

On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could bring her best friend back?

Apple picking at night? Okay, easy enough.

Dance until dawn? Sure. Why not?

Kiss a stranger? Um... 

Emily now has this unexpected summer, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected), to check things off Sloane's list. Who knows what she’ll find?

Go skinny-dipping? Wait...what?

Michigan

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks that Emily would never normally perform, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives each a try in the hope that by doing so, she will be led to Sloane by the end of what turns out to be an exciting summer. By the best-selling author of Second Chance Summer and Amy and Roger's Epic Detour.

Since You've Been Gone 

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#hardcover #bestsellingauthor #memoir #journey #dublin #love #friendship￼ #romance #life #pursuit #Ireland

Pennsylvania

The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

The author considers the changes taking place in her middle years, during which she made decisions that would significantly impact the future and reassessed her friendships and romances.

Almost There

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An award-winning fiction debut about the value of friendships in present-day Singapore—a surprising and powerful portrait of Asia that shows the unique blend of modern and traditional cultures coming together—for fans of Elena Ferrante and Emma Cline. “I am Miss Frankenstein, I am the bottom of the bell curve.” So declares Szu, a teenager living in a dark, dank house on a Singapore cul-de-sac, at the beginning of this richly atmospheric and endlessly surprising tale of non-belonging and isolation. Friendless and fatherless, Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress—who gained fame for her portrayal of a ghost—and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, an unlikely encounter develops into a fraught friendship that will haunt them both for decades to come. With remarkable emotional acuity, dark comedy, and in vivid prose, Sharlene Teo’s Ponti traces the suffocating tangle the lives of four misfits, women who need each other as much as they need to find their own way. It is an astounding portrayal of the gaping loneliness of adolescence, the surrealness of the modern city, and the strangeness of living with and loving other people.

Ponti

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Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers.

The Interestings

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"Lillia, Kat and Mary must deal with the fallout of what happened on New Year's Eve in the conclusion to the Burn for Burn trilogy"--

Ashes to Ashes

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Jar Island teens Lillia, Kat, and Mary's ongoing revenge plot against Reeve has unexpected consequences.

Fire with Fire

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Maryland

Dreams of Falling

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#hardcover #children #fiction #corduroy #classic #childrens #friendship #donfreeman 

Delaware

Corduroy, a lonely bear in green overalls, must first find his lost button before he can be Lisa's very own bear

Corduroy

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#theprinceoftides #patconroy #friendship #Charleston #SouthCarolina 

After his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family in Charleston, South Carolina, until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friends

South of Broad

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Virginia

Follows Caleb Parker, a free black man in North Carolina, as he and his white friend Tom join the Union militia and later transfer to the Confederate Army after witnessing Union atrocities, and Caleb's later disappointment with Reconstruction.

Reconstructed Yankee

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#hardcover #Flowers #Illustrated #BarefootBooks #Friendship #Courage #Shyness #Teacher box 46￼￼

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Unexpected and fantastical elements make The Boy Who Grew Flowers a memorable and moving tall tale. Lushly illustrated by Canadian artist Steve Adams, the picture book uses humour and metaphor to promote tolerance and acceptance. Rink is a very unusual little boy who grows beautiful flowers all over his body when there is a full moon. In town and at school, Rink and his family are treated as outcasts. But one day a new girl arrives at school, and Rink discovers she has some unique qualities of her own.Ages 7-9

The Boy Who Grew Flowers

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Fans of Lauren Myracle and Wendy Mass will adore the second book in this hilarious series about two BFFs who master middle school with a list of twelve goals they MUST achieve before their thirteenth birthday. Inspired by the success of their first birthday bucket list, Ari and her BFF Kaylan set twelve new goals for the next school year. And number one is “keep our friendship strong.” But after a life-changing summer at camp, Ari feels torn between Kaylan and her camp friends. And as she faces down everything from boys to bat mitzvahs, Ari needs to figure out how to be her best self—before her friends come together at her thirteenth birthday party. Or the big win she and Kaylan were hoping for may become an epic fail.

Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

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Moving away from her oppressive parents in the hopes of taking charge of her own life, Beth takes a job as a school music teacher and initially resists her attraction to a tattooed mechanic who is the epitome of everything her conservative parents fear.

If Not for You

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"Three women in their sixties go off to live in Greece for a year, only to have their children, grandchildren, and past lovers invade what was supposed to be a relaxing getaway"--

The Last Laugh

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North Dakota

"A girl-centered Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century. "—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Two outcast best friends are desperate to survive senior year and break away from their dying factory town in Stacia Tolman's The Spaces Between Us, an unforgettable YA debut. Serena Velasco and her best (and only) friend, Melody Grimshaw, are dying to get out of Colchis. Until now they’ve both been coasting, keeping a safe distance from the bleakness of home and the banality of high school. To make things more interesting Serena fixates on communism, eager to get a rise out of their conservative small town. Her Western Civ teacher catches on and challenges her with an independent study of class and upward mobility—what creates the spaces between us. Meanwhile, Grimshaw takes on a mission of her own: to make it onto the cheerleading squad, find a job, and escape the weight of her family’s hopeless reputation. But sometimes the biggest obstacles are the ones you don’t see coming; Grimshaw’s quest for success becomes a fight for survival, and Serena’s independent study gets a little too real. With the future of their friendship and their lives on the line, the stakes have never been so high. Christy Ottaviano Books

Lawrence Osborne

Beautiful Animals

Bradley Trevor Greive

Friends to the End

Ann Brashares

Forever in Blue

Dorothea Benton Frank

Pawleys Island

Nicholas Gannon

The Doldrums

Emily Gould

Friendship

Kody Keplinger

Lying Out Loud

Margaret Stohl; Melissa de la Cruz

A Secret Princess

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The Nest

Morgan Matson

Since You've Been Gone

Nuala O'Faolain

Almost There

Sharlene Teo

Ponti

Meg Wolitzer

The Interestings

Jenny Han; Siobhan Vivian

Ashes to Ashes

Jenny Han; Siobhan Vivian

Fire with Fire

Karen White

Dreams of Falling

Don Freeman

Corduroy

Pat Conroy

South of Broad

Jack Maples

Reconstructed Yankee

Steve Adams (Illustrator); Jen Wojtowicz; Jen Wojzowitz

The Boy Who Grew Flowers

Lisa Greenwald

Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

Debbie Macomber

If Not for You

Lynn Freed

The Last Laugh

Stacia Tolman

The Spaces Between Us (Arc)