Author: Judith W. Hollands
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780671668105
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Someone has stolen the fabulous Moonstone Heart necklace and Monica and Dee plan to catch the crook.

Author: Annabel Pitcher
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316246778
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Dear Mr. S. Harris, Ignore the blob of red in the top left corner. It's jam, not blood, though I don't think I need to tell you the difference. It wasn't your wife's jam the police found on your shoe. . . . I know what it's like. Mine wasn't a woman. Mine was a boy. And I killed him exactly three months ago. Zoe has an unconventional pen pal--Mr. Stuart Harris, a Texas Death Row inmate and convicted murderer. But then again, Zoe has an unconventional story to tell. A story about how she fell for two boys, betrayed one of them, and killed the other. Hidden away in her backyard shed in the middle of the night with a jam sandwich in one hand and a pen in the other, Zoe gives a voice to her heart and her fears after months of silence. Mr. Harris may never respond to Zoe's letters, but at least somebody will know her story--somebody who knows what it's like to kill a person you love. Only through her unusual confession can Zoe hope to atone for her mistakes that have torn lives apart, and work to put her own life back together again. Rising literary star Annabel Pitcher pens a captivating second novel, rich with her distinctive balance between humor and heart. Annabel explores the themes of first love, guilt, and grief, introducing a character with a witty voice and true emotional resonance.

Author: Kellie Coates Gilbert
Publisher: Amnos Media Group
ISBN: 099852381X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Set in America’s original ski resort, Sun Valley, Idaho—SISTERS offers a thought-provoking look at three women . . . and the choices they make when they realize their lives aren’t exactly what they expected. Karyn Macadam is starting over after losing her husband to a skiing accident. A chance encounter with a backcountry pilot might be this young widow’s one shot at a new beginning, but only if she can let go of the past. Leigh Ann Blackburn is the perfect wife, until her husband grows more distant and she believes the worst. An outrageous plan to save her marriage turns the situation on its head and she soon learns not everything is as it seems. Joie Abbott, who always finds a way to mess up her life, has done it yet again. This time a bitter betrayal threatens to expose a heartache she desperately wants to keep secret, especially from her family. Through romance and heartbreak, laughter and tears . . . life is always better with your sisters at your side.

Author: Karen Quinn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847399363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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Although they couldn't be more different, Amanda, Serena and Laura Moon have always been there for one another. Amanda sizzles in the high stakes arena of New York City real estate - but drags herself home each night to a cold, empty bed. From top executive at Prada, Serena is now an over-the-top stay-at-home Mum, plunging her marriage into crisis and her four-year-old into therapy. Laura spent the last six years caring for their dying mother. Now she is trying to breathe new life into her abandoned music career. Emotions explode when the sisters learn that their mother left everything - the multi-million dollar family home and a priceless painting - to Serena. But why? In an effort to make sense of the bequest, the girls journey to glamorous East Hampton to unravel the mystery behind their mother's past, setting off a chain of events that threatens the very core of their sisterhood.

Author: Rebecca Harris
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1597819875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Based on a true account, this work shares the modern struggles of a small town girl on her journey to finding Christ. It is an inspiring story of love, hope, and forgiveness.

Author: Johnnie Bernhard
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1680032119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Sisters Kim and Kathy Hodges are born sixteen months apart in a middle-class existence parented by Linda and David Hodges of Houston, Texas. The happy couple welcomes their “lucky daughter” Kim, who is physically and mentally advanced. Following several miscarriages, Linda delivers “unlucky” Kathy at twenty-nine weeks, ensuring a life of cognitive and physical disabilities. Kathy enters public school as a special education student, while Kim is recognized as gifted. Both sisters face life and death decisions as Houston is caught in the rip current of Hurricane Harvey. Kim learns the capricious nature of luck, while Kathy continues to make her own luck, surviving Hurricane Harvey, as she has survived all undertows with the ethereal courage of the resolute. Sisters of the Undertow examines the connotations of lucky and unlucky, the complexities of sibling rivalry, and the hand fate delivers without reason.

Author: Wendy Willis Baldwin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728258200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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"Readers will be eager for more." —Booklist "An insightful and empathetic view into the daily struggles of living with obesity. A solid entry for titles with plus-sized heroines." —Library Journal Pearl and Ruby's choices drove them apart. Finding their way back to each other might be the only way forward. The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby Crenshaw any differently. Ruby's a runner, living in Dallas and only reluctantly talking to their mother, Birdie, when she calls from prison. Pearl is still living in her mother's fixer-upper and finds herself facing a line in the sand: her weight is threatening to kill her. She's hundreds of pounds beyond the point where she can celebrate her curves or benefit from the body positivity movement, and unless she takes drastic action, the future looks dire. But when Ruby's buried rage explodes in a hilariously viral way, the mistake has life-altering consequences. Now the sisters are back living under the same roof and forced to put the pieces of their separate lives together again. Funny, cinematic, and bursting with heart, this is a story of hope and redemption that celebrates the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. "A moving story of sisters and their unbreakable bond that spans a lifetime. Both hilarious and heartfelt, Baldwin brings to life characters that not only amuse us but stay with us long after the story is told. With this delightful and meaningful debut, Wendy Willis Baldwin is definitely an author to watch." —Angela Pisel, author of With Love from the Inside

Author: Annabel Pitcher
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316201855
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe. !--StartFragment-- To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. Told with warmth and humor, this powerful novel is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together. !--EndFragment--

Author: Caroline Casey
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566894808
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Cultural criticism for people who grew up with television as the primary background noise.

Author: Sally Knight
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035836742
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Guru Sal is a wise woman in the modern world, one who has been gifted with valuable insight and eternal wisdom. Guru Sal has walked the paths of female angst herself and now seeks to assist Sisters of the world and guide them to their own solutions to their issues. Not all in this world is rosy, not everything is easy for women or girls. But with the help of Guru Sal, Sisters will have the support of a woman who holds this knowledge, insight, and intuition. She will help you to overcome personal issues and make your life easier. Whether it is your man, your workload or wanting more of life’s simple pleasures, Guru Sal will strive to help you achieve this through her own expertise and objectivity. Guru Sal invites Sisters to write in with their problems and she will respond with assertive, no-nonsense solutions. Names and places will be changed to protect privacy. Power to my wily Sisters!