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Immigrant Soldier
by K. Lang-Slattery
Herman watches in horror as his cousin and a friend are arrested by the SA. As a Jew, he realizes it is past time to flee his homeland, a decision that catapults him from one adventure to another, his life changed forever by the storm of world events. Part coming-of-age story, part immigrant tale, part World War II adventure, IMMIGRANT SOLDIER, THE STORY OF A RITCHIE BOY, follows Herman as he evolves from a frightened and frustrated teenager looking for a place to belong into a confident and caring US Army Intelligence officer serving in the Third Army. The reader…View this book -
Infants of the Brush
by A. M. Watson
Infants of the Brush is historical fiction based on Armory v. Delamirie, a 1700s court case before the King’s Bench against Paul de Lamerie, a silversmith. In the vein of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Infants of the Brush is set in a time when London society ignored the ills of child labor. Unlike the gleeful chimney sweeps portrayed in Mary Poppins, climbing boys were forced up burning flues to dislodge harmful soot and coal ash. Egan Whitcombe is just six years old when he is sold to Master Armory for a few coins that his family desperately needs. As one…View this book -
Letters from Wishing Rock
by Pam Stucky
Letters from Wishing Rock (a novel with recipes) synopsis: Wit, wisdom, and recipes! What would happen if everyone in town lived in the same building? Ruby Parker is about to find out. Her fiancé has left her and she needs a fresh start, so she moves to Wishing Rock, Washington, a small town on Dogwinkle Island in the waters near Seattle, where she meets a quirky cast of characters who quickly become family. Letters between the neighbors and their friends chronicle the twists and turns of the characters' daily lives. There's Jake, a handsome and charming first-year medical student who…View this book -
Finding Emma
by Steena Holmes
A child torn from the arms of loving parents, a relationship torn apart from loss... Megan sees her daughter Emma everywhere. She's the little girl standing in the supermarket, the child waiting for the swings at the playground, the girl with ice cream dripping down her face. But it's never Emma. Because Emma's been missing for two years. Unable to handle the constant heartache of all the false sightings, Megan's husband threatens to walk away unless Megan can agree to accept Emma is gone. Megan's life and marriage is crumbling all around her and she realizes she may have to…View this book -
Knock on Wood
by Leslie Tall Manning
1978: Fourteen-year-old Billy Baker is the first into the pond that early summer day. Ten minutes later, his lifeless body is pulled from the chilly water, his lips like two slivers of blue ice. Billy Baker dies...but only for a little while. Thirty-nine days later, he emerges from a coma. But he is not alone. 1994: Billy (AKA William) is turning thirty. He forgets some letters in the alphabet. He can't set a table properly. He still believes it's the disco era. And he can't remember that day at the pond. But the young boy William used to be has…View this book -
In Search of the Fuller Brush Man
by Douglas B. Carlyle
Sean Marcum is driven to find the meaning of his mother's swan song. The last words she wrote in her journal were, "Fuller Brush Man". She always communicated life's most important lessons via riddles, and he is convinced this is her finale. Sadly, Sean was never good at solving riddles, and his quest turns into an obsession, nearly costing him his marriage, and his life. Sean's high school sweetheart, Kim, had a special bond with his mother. She was also a master at riddles. The one-time lovers have been married to others for more than 30 years. Kim's marriage has…View this book -
Every Five Minutes
by Bronwyn Elsmore
Gina, if that is her real name, wakes to an autumn morning and, against her better judgment, selects a light dress to wear to work. Deliberately, she misses the bus and walks into the city, then turns and walks back home. This is not a day for work. Tomorrow, in her navy pantsuit, she will be there. Today she will spend with a white dog and a remarkable man. Every Five Minutes is also about the color cornflower blue, beaches, parks, city streets, exotic places, coffee, flowers, polished stones, a unicorn and a swan, words, theatre, movies, music, and love. But…View this book -
INVISIBLE GIRL
by Padgett Gerler
What is a fourteen-year-old to do when her mama’s best friend is found guilty of murdering his wife and said mama swirls into madness from the sheer weight of her grief? When Briley Beckwith comes face to face with this tragic reality, she does the only thing she can think to do: she becomes invisible. Armed with her new-found Power of Invisibility and the comfort of Miss Delphine, her eccentric, chain-smoking, opera-loving, Yoo-hoo-chugging neighbor, Briley copes by tiptoeing, undetected, around the chaos that has engulfed her family—until the real murderer is exposed.View this book -
Finding Arun
by Marisha Pink
If you live your whole life being who everybody else wants you to be, how do you know who you really are? Nineteen-year-old Aaron Rutherford is already reeling from the loss of his mother, when the unexpected revelation of a dark secret from her past changes his world forever. Forced to question everything that he has ever believed, should he simply follow the path that has been laid out for him, or will pursuing the truth help him to find what has always been missing? As the tangled web of lies unfolds and uncertainty takes over, a startling chain of…View this book -
Kingston’s Project
by Carrie Beckort
How do you find the strength to embrace a future that's different than the one you planned? For Sarah Mitchell, the answer is simple--you don't. For two years, Sarah has shut herself off from most of the world around her. She needs to move on, but doesn't know how to begin. Unexpectedly, Sarah is presented with an opportunity that could change everything. Elijah Kingston, her firm's largest client, wants her to lead a highly confidential assignment. When Sarah learns the shocking nature of Kingston's project, she is torn between Elijah's promise of healing and her fear of falling deeper into…View this book -
FAKE NEWS: Strange historical facts reimagined in the world of Donald Trump
by David Hutter
Named as one of the 10 BEST BOOKS ON THE DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENCY by British newspaper The Independent, David Hutter's "Fake News" is a satire in which Trump's behaviour towards North Korea, Theresa May and others is inspired by obscure historical events from, for instance, ancient China, Tudor England, the French Revolution and the Cold War. These historical footnotes — such as Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a rabbit and Key West declaring independence from the United States — are described at the end of each chapter. "Funny and cutting, this is the perfect antidote to despair," says The Independent.View this book -
Goodbye, Paris Nash
by Barbara Fletcher-Brink O'Connor
Have you ever met someone and felt you had known them forever? If you discovered that person was dying, how far would you go to help achieve their final wish? When Siobhan O'Shaunessy, a new hire at KWNK television, gets the assignment to cover the judging of the Grand Champion Steer at the Alamo City Livestock Exposition, she has no idea as she watches fifteen-year-old Paris Nash collapses at the hooves of her winning Grand Champion that her own life is going to change forever. Siobhan, privileged child of a mentally ill mother, raised by a serial marrying grandfather, has…View this book
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