Showing 1 - 15 of 15  There are a total of 255 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "The bean trees"
Star rating for The bean trees
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
Book cover for "Bitter orange"
Star rating for Bitter orange
Average Rating:
2.8 stars
Book cover for "The castaways"
Star rating for The castaways
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Notes:
book 2 of 3
Description:
"The perfect summer read" (Booklist) from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand: an intense tale of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of endless summer island life.  With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in...
Book cover for "The celebrants"
Star rating for The celebrants
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living "funerals," celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living--and living well--five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.
Book cover for "First friends"
Star rating for First friends
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"First Friends includes the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, the man with whom Lincoln once shared a bed and who did more to help him emerge from his crippling depression than anyone else; Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who played a pivotal part in America's recognition of the state of Israel in 1948; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley, a...
Book cover for "Hello girls"
Star rating for Hello girls
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in their lives take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves.
Book cover for "I will always write back"
Star rating for I will always write back
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever."--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "I wish you would"
Star rating for I wish you would
Description:
At the Senior Sunrise overnight, Natalia must work with ex-best friend Ethan to find seven of the class's confessional letters before any secrets, including their own, are revealed.
Book cover for "The lying game"
Star rating for The lying game
Author:
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
Book cover for "The measure"
Star rating for The measure
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
"When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy"--
Book cover for "A single thread"
Star rating for A single thread
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
"1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a 'surplus woman,' one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home...
Book cover for "Six of crows"
Star rating for Six of crows
Series:
Six of crows volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first. Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price-- and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone......
Book cover for "The story of Arthur Truluv"
Star rating for The story of Arthur Truluv
Series:
Mason novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetery, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
Book cover for "True biz"
Star rating for True biz
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
Book cover for "When the sky fell on Splendor"
Star rating for When the sky fell on Splendor
Author:
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Franny and her friends, The Ordinary, fill their time in traumatized Spendor, Ohio, filming their investigations of local legends for YouTube, but when they investigate a cosmic event, everything changes.