A barista's guide to love & larceny
"An overworked college student with a secret ability helps to investigate a harmful product, while falling for a new crush"-- Provided by publisher.
"An overworked college student with a secret ability helps to investigate a harmful product, while falling for a new crush"-- Provided by publisher.
"Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad-a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago-suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family"-- Provided by publisher.
"Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past"-- Provided by publisher.
"When the walls close in, the truth comes out. When Indy's life came crashing down, she made a rule: no one could know. To the world, she's still the same Indy -- cool, calm, unshaken. But behind the scenes? It's chaos. Her tight-knit crew -- Beau, Caroline, and Ava -- were once her everything. Now they're strangers she can't seem to reach -- especially Beau. And the only person she talks to these days is Cody, a skater-boy she used to think was so not her type. Funny how everything changes when your world flips upside down. And then, as if things couldn't get weirder, Indy finds herself literally stuck in a school bathroom with Beau. After months of silence, and there's no escape. If they want out, they'll have to face the messy truth about what happened between them and find a way back to what they once had. Or maybe even more . . ." -- Publisher's website.
"Krishna Kumar may have gotten into her dream college, but that doesn't mean she's stopped being a bi disaster. Even after spending her whole summer in India flirting with her gorgeous neighbor Amrit, she has nothing to show for it. And now, her fate is sealed: she's destined to be the only freshman who's never been kissed. But when her flight home is delayed right as a distinctly flirty text from Amrit lights up her phone, Krishna is determined to seize her last chance at a perfect first kiss with Amrit, even if it means asking her cousin-turned-nemesis, Priti, for help. Because Amrit is miles away at a family wedding--and Priti's best friend, Rudra Desai, is the only one with a car. The unlikely trio set off on a road trip to crash a wedding and save Krishna's summer. But as she starts to fall for the quiet yet irresistibly hot and charming Rudra, who everyone knows is unrequitedly in love with Priti, Krishna realizes her heart better catch up to her head before she skips right past her first kiss and falls directly into her first heartbreak"--Amazon website.
A young girl's great-grandmother tells her about the Japanese concept mono-no-aware, the feeling of beauty and sadness, and she comes to understand it after the passing of her great-grandmother and the brief blooming of a cherry tree.
"The day Oona was kicked out of her mother's coven at eighteen, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft she'd imagined was her birthright. Years later, she's carved out an ordinary life with her husband, though she is filled with a longing she can barely name. If she can only carry a pregnancy to term, become a mother, then according to coven lore, she will come into her magic. But after multiple pregnancies end in miscarriages, Oona begins to feel desperate. Without the money to seek medical treatment, she decides she must return to the rugged, windswept island where she was raised, and to her dark, enigmatic mother whose coven claims to harness witchcraft to help women struggling to conceive. Due to her acrimonious departure, Oona will have to return under the cover of anonymity. But there are dark forces at work on the island, and as her time there grows more harrowing, the truth threatens to come to light. How far will Oona go to access the power she knows her mother still commands?"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Aunts by kinship as well as family friends, neighbors, and community members all step up to fill the important role of "auntie." They are there for life's joys, sorrows, and celebrations, bringing their own special love."--Provided by publisher.
"A gripping novel about two women fighting for survival in the icy wilderness of Nova Scotia, and the love that simultaneously sustains them and threatens their very existence, from the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick River Sing Me Home. 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm. So when she sees a shadow slipping through the trees, Cora thinks her eyes are deceiving her. Until she creeps out into the moonlight and finds the tracks in the snow. Agnes is in hiding. On the run from her former life, she has learned what it takes to survive alone in the wilderness. But she can afford no mistakes. When she first spies the young woman in the woods, she is afraid. Yet Cora is fearless, and their paths are destined to cross. Deep amongst the cedars, Cora and Agnes find a fragile place of safety. But when Agnes's past closes in, they are confronted with the dangerous price of freedom-and of love..."-- Provided by publisher.
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After being rejected from their dream school, best friends Raven, Dorian, and Atticus infiltrate the magical university to receive an unsanctioned education, while navigating their feelings for each other.