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1) Be mine
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
5) Mixed up
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lito Macaraeg, a former chauffeur for Philippine president Corazon Aquino, reaches out to his estranged journalist son from his nursing home in Manila, offering him a scoop about a secret meeting between Imelda Marcos and Aquino, whose husband was allegedly murdered by Marcos and her husband.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Isaac wants to grow a beard, just like his dad, who always seems to be the coolest person in the barbershop, but after trying for weeks with no success, he discovers there are other ways to emulate his father's coolness.
Author
Series
Romancing the Clarksons volume 4
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Leaving Belmont Clarkson is the hardest thing Sage Alexander has ever done. From the moment they met, she knew Belmont was the one, and getting up close and personal with him on his family's epic road trip has taken her desire to a new, even hotter level. But there's no way she can go there--not without revealing secrets that could devastate them both. Losing Sage is not an option. Belmont's heart is hers, has always been hers. He knows she's hiding...
14) Dracula's son
Author
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dracula’s Son is the story of Mihnea, the son of Dracula, Prince of Wallachia in Transylvania. Because of the actions of his cruel father, Mihnea is injured, abandoned, and left to die in the Carpathian Mountains. Some mountain people find and bring him back to health. He is adopted by the family and, to protect himself, he takes on the identity and name of a boyhood friend Voicu. As he grows to adulthood and finds his true father is back in power,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Joe is starstruck, determined to find his way up, up, up to the magical lights in the night sky. "In your dreams!" his pals say. But when Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together, there's no stopping them. Together they climb ladders, construct towers, and launch rockets in a tireless quest to reach the unreachable. Airy and playful, Gill Smith's dynamic illustrations perfectly complement David Almond's ebullient tale of sky-high courage--and...
17) Leo on a hike
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Leo and his father go on a hike and discover many interesting things along the way.
Author
Series
Poppy Creek volume 8
Publisher
Secret Garden Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the picturesque town of Poppy Creek, Cassie Davis’s peaceful life takes an unexpected turn. Entangled in a battle to save the beloved library from an unscrupulous developer, Cassie faces fears of motherhood while reconciling with her own mom. Donna Hayward, devoted to making amends and rebuilding her life, strives to maintain her sobriety and be the best mother she can be while guarding a troubling secret. The last thing she needs is to fall...
19) Spy x family: 10
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment--to get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head! As a child, [REDACTED] lived an unremarkable life with his parents, playing war games with his friends and quarreling with his father. It never occurred to young [REDACTED] that the life he'd taken for granted might...
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the...