Enger, Leif
Summary: "Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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Summary: "In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale. Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House 2023
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic, but when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding, her resistance to magic fades when she discovers that she is next in a line of women tasked with guarding Ali Baba's treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: "The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: "In his final tour of duty after a remarkable career at sea, Dan Lenson is appointed Superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He begins at a difficult time: Congress is cutting military budgets in the wake of the devastating world war with China, calls for radical reform are upending traditions, and Dan himself faces legal jeopardy for his actions during the war. And when a Category...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship. A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city's mayor must struggle to move forward while the world-quite literally-caves beneath their feet. With this polyphonic tale of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: Itty and her best friend Luna Unicorn enjoy all the snowy activities at the Frost Festival, but before Itty can judge the ice sculpture competition, an ice pick goes missing and one sculptor blames another for stealing, so Itty must find the missing carving tool and find a way to settle the argument.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Chicken pox interferes with Abby's birthday surprise for her adopted Korean brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1993
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Summary: The inclusion of Jason's frog Croaker in the Easter pet parade she is planning challenges Stacy's fear of frogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1995
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Summary: "Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022
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Summary: Jason takes advantage of his parents' absence to sneak forbidden chocolates behind his babysitting grandmother's back, but a Bible verse and a talk with God help him understand the importance of good behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1995
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Summary: Life is tough at home for Marty, but his eccentric grandad has a plan up his sleeve to give him hope that involves wishes, a pumpkin, and a trip all the way from England to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: "An anxious, asthmatic boy gets recruited by a girl from the future to launch a climate strike big enough to rewrite history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jolly Fish Press 2023
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Summary: When Itty learns that the royal gardens haven't been tended to for ages, she decides to take matters into her own paws, showering attention on the talking flowers and asking them exactly what they need to flourish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: "A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance. Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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Summary: "WANTED: Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2022
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Summary: After arriving at Ellis Island, two poor children from Southern Italy--Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine--struggle to survive in New York City amid the poverty, opportunity, and crime of Little Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: "FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2023
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Summary: Wanted: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best. In Boyfriend Material, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends... and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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Summary: "When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022
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Summary: "A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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Summary: Battle-hardened Jean LaBarge came of age on the American frontier, and is always in search of bold adventure. He'll find more than he bargains for in the rugged Alaskan territory, where he'll meet his match in Baron Zinnovy. Now he must defeat this savage, empire-hungry Russian to save his country's right to claim this frozen landscape ... and to win over the heart of the beautiful princess he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1981
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Summary: "An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024