The dog days of summer have arrived, and Tai Randolph is feeling the heat. Running her uncle’s gun shop is more demanding than she ever imagined. Her best friend Rico is competing for a national slam poetry title. And Atlanta is overrun...
Life change events
- Author:Whittle, TinaSummary:
- Author:Allen, AnneSummary:
Tragedy seems to follows Jeanne Le Page around. Can she really go through it again and survive? Jeanne Le Page is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she was almost killed in a boating accident which brought heart-breaking family...
- Author:Silcoff, MireilleSummary:
A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff.Inspired by the real life medical struggles of the author, this stunning debut collection opens with a gripping portrait...
- Author:Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white...
- Author:Sinnott, SusanSummary:
This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She stood at the edge, a mass of instincts and yearnings and despair, while the dawn painted itself in around her, shade by delicate shade....
- Author:Fielding, KimSummary:
Werewolves don’t have a how-to manual—nor do men embarking on a new life together. It’s been a few weeks since Dylan Warner wolfed out and killed Andy, the crazed werewolf who originally turned him and later tried to murder Chris Nock....
- Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:
This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the...
- Author:Deveraux, JudeSummary:
Three women of different generations gather at a house in Summer Hill, Virginia to discuss their marriages and look at how they'd do things differently if they could do it all over again. Olivia is in her sixties and recently married...
- Author:Senécal, PatrickSummary:
Against God is the gripping, dark tale of a man searching for answers. What happens in the mind of a man when, all of a sudden, he loses all reason for living? When everything in his life collapses around him and he is left with nothing...
- Author:Raglin, RodSummary:
At 27 years old, George Fairweather is “the voice of his generation”, a poet whose talent has garnered him accolades from the literary establishment and homage from the disenfranchised “hippie” youth of the late 1960’s. George is the...
- Author:Lowry, LoisSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her older sister Molly's beauty and popularity. Things get even more complicated the day Molly is rushed to the hospital. That's the day Meg's life changes forever.
- Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
In 1880, Tarsie Raines is traveling from New York to Kansas with the Brubachers: Joss, Mary, and their two children. Along the way, tragedy strikes, leaving Tarsie and Joss alone to face an unthinkable crisis--and only God's love...
- Author:Gault, ConnieSummary:
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena finds herself living alone in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has...