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The author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thirty Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us-vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal of two women discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against the confines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar's captivating second novel echoes the timeless...
2) Between Us
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Picture perfect volume 4
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Being one-half of a BFF heart necklace is serious business-and in the Picture Perfect series, each story tackles a tough friendship challenge. Through the ups and downs of life in middle school, through braces and boy bands, family feuds and fashion disasters, your best bud is there. But what happens when friendship suddenly gets complicated? Tween readers will adore these sweet, accessible stories about the power of friendship. Bailey Broadwell and...
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Pages between us volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Told in letters, posters, blog posts, homework assignments, and more, The Pages Between Us is a totally fun, totally earnest snapshot of middle grade friendship-and what it truly means to be there for someone during the ups, downs, and everything in between. Piper and Olivia have been best friends since… well, forever. But they're distressed to find that their new middle school schedules aren't giving them enough together-time. Luckily, an idea...
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"If you want a boyfriend that bad, I'll go out with you." Growing up next-door neighbors, Reita Kikuchi and Makoto Sakurai's parents are friends, and the two of them have known each other forever. But one day Makoto is suddenly thrown into a relationship with that narcissistic and self-absorbed playboy, Reita-her old childhood friend! Follow Makoto's adventures as she navigates the ups and downs of dating the egotistical boy-next-door in the first...
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When her childhood friend Reita Kikuchi confesses his feelings for Makoto Sakurai, she panics, worrying about how it might affect their friendship. After she lies and says that she's interested in someone else, Reita's friend Yusuke Abiko comes up with an interesting solution... Follow Makoto's adventure as she navigates the ups and downs of dating her egotistical childhood friend in the second installment of this romantic comedy!
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"Why did you have to say that...?" As chance would have it, Makoto Sakurai finds herself pretending to date her childhood friend Reita Kikuchi. While he exasperates her with his narcissism and stupidity, she begins to take more notice of his clumsy attempts at kindness - but can't bring herself to admit to her feelings. Follow Makoto's adventure as she navigates the ups and downs of dating her egotistical childhood friend in the second installment...
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"The whole time I'm reading a Mhairi McFarlane novel, I feel like a fist is squeezing my heart… she is so ridiculously talented." – Emily Henry
International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a witty, clever, emotional new novel about a woman whose life unravels spectacularly after her screenwriter boyfriend uses their relationship as inspiration for his new television show.
When Roisin and Joe join their friends for a weekend at a country...
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A luminous YA love story that evokes Judy Blume's Forever for a new generation. Sarah-Bean to her friends and family-is an aspiring astronomer and champion mathlete. She lives behind her beloved telescope, with her head in the stars and her feet planted firmly on the ground. For as long as she can remember, she's also lived in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Scarlett. But after a traumatic end to the school year, Sarah goes to Cape Cod for...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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After moving to Colorado, deaf seventeen-year-old Maya is forced to attend a hearing school, where she must navigate a new life and prove that her lack of hearing will not stop her from pursuing her dreams. Includes an interview with the author.
12) Just Between Us
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Tabitha is a college professor. Months after the death of her best friend, she decides to buy a tiny house and go on a road trip she and Kendra had been planning in their daydreams.Kendrick is Kendra's little brother. Kenny is a retired transit bus driver and sometimes truck driver. He comes to Tabby's aide when she needs help learning how to not only drive a truck but also haul a tiny house. Kenny can't possibly let Tabby go on this trip all by herself....
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They both have pasts they want to leave behind…in USA TODAY bestselling author Judy Duarte’s latest novel.
Callie didn’t trust easily.
Until someone gave her a reason to…
Pregnant waitress Callie Jamison is settling into her new life in Fairborn, Montana, dividing her time between the ranch and the diner…and Ramon Cruz, the sexy town councilman who never fails to show up during her breakfast shift. The sparks between them set the local...
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When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they're convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach... an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland's most revered authors...
Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is...
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The war is over, and the boys are coming home. It's time for women everywhere to leave the factories and return to their rightful places…in the kitchen.
Women did their duty and filled many traditionally male jobs while their men were fighting for their country, but now, the men are back and ready to take over. But what if your man didn't return? And what if you found you enjoyed the freedom your job gave you?
Neither Marion Whiting nor Barbara...
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What happens when the loves in your life are on a collision course?
And faith raises more questions than it answers?
Ben and Harriet don't remember meeting each other.
Their parents were friends long before either of them existed.
An old photo proves there was a beginning: Ben, as a toddler, beaming as he holds a squirming new-born.
That was nearly eighteen years ago. Now, they're inseparable - they know everything about each other.
Except,...
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As a child, Eunice Boeve experienced the first sign of her extrasensory perception in a premonition of her father's death. The night he passed, she sensed invisible people in the room and believed they had killed him. The experience eventually slipped into her subconscious memory as unresolved grief, manifesting through panic attacks and fainting spells. She was forty-eight when an out-of-body experience finally set her free.
Then, in 2018, the author's...
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I had a love-hate relationship with hockey players.They'd won over my protected, carefully-controlled heart, and I accepted that they had a place in my town.And in my heart.Mostly because Joel had waltzed right in and made himself at home.And…I'd fallen for him. Deep.But now the man had decided he was going to waltz back out…leaving a giant, hockey-player-sized hole in my soul and my heart shredded beneath his sharp skate blades.The man had broken...
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Can anyone really stay hidden from the world? A powerful novel of solitude, survival, and psychological suspense from the author of Unravelling Alice . . .
For three years, Ida has been living in the remote Welsh countryside to stay safe from a world ravaged by illness. The only person she has contact with is Cal, her fiancée, who brings supplies and news about their crumbling society before returning to his military work.
When she wakes...
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