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By Ishmael Beah (Fic Beah, eAudiobook)
Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane. A novel about young people in a conflict-scarred land, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.
By Kirstin Chen (Fic Chen, Q Chen, CD Fic Chen, eBook, eAudiobook)
Ava is a rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with the perfect life. But it's crumbling. Enter Winnie Fang, her college roommate. Winnie has developed a counterfeit scheme and needs help. But when their success is threatened Ava is left with the consequences.
By Julie Clark (Fic Clar, eBook)
A twisted domestic thriller that dives deep into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and rewrite the future.
By Imogen Crimp (Fic Crim, CD Fic Crim, eBook, eAudiobook)
Anna knows she has talent in the world of opera. Anna meets Max, a charismatic financier in the midst of a divorce. Anna soon finds herself desperate to hold his attention, but with a demanding career she can’t give him her undivided attention. The situation compounds until Anna must decide who, or what, she wants.
By Salma El-Wardany (Fic Elwa, PLAY Fic Elwa, eBook)
It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their family. As their lives take different paths, they must find a way back to each other as they reconcile faith, family, and tradition with their own needs and desires.
By Mario Escobar (Fic Esco, eBook, eAudiobook)
Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village.
By Jakob Guanzon (Fic Guan)
Evicted Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a truck. It is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a job interview. But after Henry has an altercation and Junior succumbs to a fever, they are struggling to hold things together.
By Talia Hibbert (Fic Hibb, CD Fic Hibb, PLAY Fic Hibb, eBook, eAudiobook)
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After not quite, dying, she's come up with 7 directives. But it's not easy being bad. What Chloe needs is a teacher: Redford 'Red' Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and appeal.
By Jessica Francis Kane (Fic Kane, Q Kane, eBook, eAudiobook)
May Attaway, a university gardener sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. This novel is a woman's exploration of friendship in the digital age.
By Allison Larkin (Fic Lark, Q Lark, eBook, eAudiobook)
Little River, NY, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms chronicling her journey in the music she creates as she discovers that home is with the people you choose to keep.
By Annie Lyons (Fic Lyon, eBook, eAudiobook)
It's never too late to start living. Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy world. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. Now that Eudora’s joy for life has been rekindled, how can she possibly say goodbye?
By Sarah Pinsker (SF Pins)
Val and Julie want the best for their kids. When teenage son David asks for a brain implant to help with school, they agree. This is the future. A novel about one family and the technology that divides them. How do you stop technology once it's everywhere?
By Nina Riggs (B Riggs, QB Riggs, eAudiobook)
Built on her Modern Love column, a memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by a 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to 2 young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis.
By Angela C. Santomero (177.7 Sant, Q 177.7 Sant, CD 177.7 Sant)
Inspired by her mentor Fred Rogers, beloved host of the classic, award-winning PBS show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Angela has dedicated her life to teaching others that when you treat yourself and others with warmth, empathy, and respect, life changing benefits follows.
By Alice Wong (B Wong, eBook, eAudiobook)
This memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project. In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity.
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