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My best friend's girl: A Novel
By Dorothy Koomson. 2008
England. After Kamryn, who is black, discovers her white friend Adele had a daughter with Kamryn's fiancé Nate, Kamryn ends…
both relationships. The women reconcile when Adele has terminal cancer, and Kamryn adopts Adele's girl. Kamryn begins dating her boss--then Nate reappears. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2006Porcupine
By Meg Tilly. 2007
Canada. The year after Jacqueline "Jack" Cooper's father dies in Afghanistan, her mother leaves Jack, her ten-year-old sister Tessa, and…
her seven-year-old brother Simon - a special-needs student - with their great-grandmother on her prairie farm. Jack and her siblings form closer bonds. Some strong language. Grades 5-8. 2007.A dangerous age: a novel
By Ellen Gilchrist. 2010
Half-Cherokee Olivia Hand, a newspaper editor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, confronts her mixed feelings about the war in Iraq as she…
and her cousins endure tragedies. Companion to I Cannot Get You Close Enough (DB 35282) and The Anna Papers (DB 28884). Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2008Keeping score
By Linda Sue Park. 2008
Brooklyn, New York; 1950s. Nine-year-old Maggie, a Dodgers fan, listens to baseball games at the fire station, where Jim, a…
Giants fan, teaches her to keep a score sheet. But when Jim is drafted into the Korean War, he doesn't answer her letters. For grades 4-7. 2008Lucky (Avery Sisters Trilogy #Bk. 1)
By Rachel Vail. 2008
Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends are planning an extravagant eighth-grade graduation party. Then her mother faces a financial…
scandal and her father decides to cancel the party. Phoebe suddenly doesn't feel so lucky. How can she tell her friends? For junior and senior high readers. 2008Firehorse
By Diane Lee Wilson, Diane L Wilson. 2006
Boston, 1872. Fifteen-year-old Rachel, who longs to be a veterinarian instead of a proper lady, rescues a severely burnt mare…
from a fire station. A serial arsonist threatens the city while distemper kills thousands of horses--leaving firemen stranded when a giant blaze occurs. For junior and senior high readers. 2006Down river
By John Hart. 2007
Five years ago Adam Chase was acquitted of murder charges, despite his stepmother's accusations, and hounded out of town. When…
he returns to North Carolina to help a friend, he's confronted with family troubles and dangerous long-held secrets. Violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Edgar Award. 2007Crawfish mountain: a novel
By Ken Wells. 2007
Justin Pitre inherits a bayou from his Cajun grandfather in southeast Louisiana. Oilman Tom Huff covets Pitre's land for a…
pipeline--but the Army Corps of Engineers has other plans. Environmentalist Julie Galjour works to persuade governor Joe T. Evangeline to preserve the wetlands. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2007All we ever wanted was everything: a novel
By Janelle Brown. 2008
When Janice's CEO husband runs off with her tennis partner the day he becomes a multimillionaire, Janice accidentally starts a…
crystal-meth habit. Meanwhile her elder daughter's feminist magazine folds, and the younger daughter learns that she's known as the school slut. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2008Being Elizabeth (Ravenscar)
By Barbara Taylor Bradford. 2008
At twenty-five, upon her hateful half sister's death, Elizabeth Turner inherits Deravenels, the generations-old family business. Trusted advisor Cecil and…
Elizabeth's childhood friend Robert help her deal with power struggles and money problems at Deravenels over the next ten years. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2008Sweet love
By Sarah Strohmeyer. 2008
The mother of Boston reporter and single parent Julie Mueller tries to reunite Julie with former crush Michael Slayton at…
a pastry class. But Julie and Michael are still feuding over a story Julie broke years ago, and, besides, Julie's too busy to fall in love. Some strong language. 2008Growth of the soil (Penguin classics)
By Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad. 2007
Deep in Norway's unspoiled backcountry, Isak perseveres in building a homestead, nurturing his crops, and raising a family. But the…
demands of civilization eventually intrude upon--and destroy--his simple way of life. A 2007 translation by Sverre Lyngstad. 1917The dangerous days of Daniel X (Daniel X #1)
By James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge. 2008
Fifteen-year-old orphan Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, secretly tracking down and exterminating dangerous aliens…
that roam the planet. But when Daniel faces Ergent Seth, the fates of Earth and another world hang in the balance. For senior high and older readers. 2008Nice to come home to
By Rebecca Flowers. 2008
Washington, D.C. After losing her job and boyfriend Rudy, thirtysomething Prudence Whistler attempts to regain purpose and self-confidence. She rescues…
Rudy's cat--which was also dumped--from a shelter, she realizes her passion for fashion, and she befriends soon-to-be-divorced café proprietor John Owen. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2008American wife: a novel
By Curtis Sittenfeld. 2008
Baby boomer Alice Lindgren grows up in Wisconsin experiencing her share of dreams and tragedies. Her life as a school…
librarian changes when she is thirty-one and weds Charlie Blackwell, a hard-drinking member of a prestigious family. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2008Encyclopedia Brown finds the clues (Encyclopedia Brown #3)
By Donald J. Sobol. 2007
A sister's hope (SISTERS OF HOLMES COUNTY #3)
By Wanda E. Brunstetter. 2008
Someone is vandalizing the Hostettler family's Amish farm and attacking Martha Hostettler's sheltie dogs. Martha's father suspects her suitor, Luke…
Friesen, is responsible. Martha and Luke investigate as the violence increases. 2008The perfect life: a novel (Women of faith)
By Robin Lee Hatcher. 2008
Katherine Clarkson's life seems perfect--her husband, Brad, was recently named Humanitarian of the Year for his work with a charitable…
foundation, and both grown daughters are pregnant. But when Brad's former employee accuses him of financial and sexual impropriety, Katherine struggles to regain control amid the chaos. 2008The voyage of Patience Goodspeed
By Heather Vogel Frederick. 2004
In October 1835, twelve-year-old Patience, along with her enthusiastic six-year-old brother, reluctantly accompanies their father Captain Goodspeed aboard his whaling…
ship departing Nantucket for Cape Horn. When a new crew member incites a mutiny, Patience finds opportunities to put her mathematical ability to good use. For grades 4-7. 2002The monsters of Templeton
By Lauren Groff. 2008
In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of…
her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, looking to hide in the one place to which she swore she'd never come back. Willie's hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mother, Vi, tells her a secret she's been hiding for nearly thirty years: that Willie's father wasn't the random man from a free-love commune that Vi had led her to imagine, but someone else entirely. Strong language. 2008.