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From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go.
Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only, and incorrectly, Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion...
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"Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't...
4) Neville
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When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
7) Say hello!
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Carmelita loves to greet everyone in her colorful neighborhood. There are people from so many different cultures! They all like to say hello too, so now Carmelita can say hello in Spanish, English, French, Japanese, and many other languages. And her dog, Manny? Well, he seems to understand everyone, and gives a happy "Woof!" wherever he goes.
10) Rose cottage
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Widowed in the war, and comfortably settled in London, Kate Herrick returns to her quaint family cottage in the country to retrieve some family papers only to discover disturbing evidence of a break-in. The papers are missing, and the village is alive with gossip. As she searches for answers she uncovers a long-hidden secret that will change her life dramatically.
11) Here today
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In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
12) Pride
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Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
13) Someday, Narwhal
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"A tiny narwhal in a fishbowl discovers that sometimes the difference between staying home and a big adventure is a group of loving friends"--
18) Under the egg
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Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
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The white elephant is the nickname of an ornate behemoth of a new home in a quaint suburban town. It is up for sale, and in hopes of speeding up the sale, the owner cuts down a precious red maple tree on an adjoining property. This is the event that upsets the dynamic of the neighborhood, causing disagreements, anger, vandalism, and hate, as well as love. This is a funny, magnetizing and sharply observant tale of a peaceful neighborhood that quickly...
20) Miracle
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A fierce storm brings together three people--Quinn Thompson, a widower ; his neighbor, Maggie Dartman, grieving over a loss ; and Jack Adams, the carpenter brought in to repair both of their homes -- in a friendship that will transform their lives.
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