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In this brilliant new novel by from Emiko Jean, the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Tokyo Ever After, comes a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love--how we find it, keep it, and how it always returns. One phone call changes everything. At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki's life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She's a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese parents.

"A breathtaking story of an extraordinary friendship. Molly Fader has penned an unforgettable novel that is sure to be one of the year's best."--Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding VeilTwo friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story.1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don't have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family's disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret.

This exceptional debut novel captures a sparkling new voice and irrepressible heroine in a celebration of storytelling sure to thrill fans of Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi and Jenna Evans Welch! When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti and writing the report of a lifetime. You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about anything? Actually, a lot.

Have Yourself a Very British Christmas is a twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest aspects of the Christmas holiday, with cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who've eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale.

After nearly two hundred years of housing retardants, as they were once known, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history. Ella Jules, having arrived at Beechwood at the age of eight, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ella's aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home, much to the distress of Ella's siblings. The five adult Jules children, haunted by their early memories of their sister, are converging on the family home to talk some sense into their aging parents.

Natalie Walker is the reason for her brother and sister's imprisonment. Years later, she receives an inheritance letter for their family home, the only caveat is that Natalie must claim it with her siblings.

Joey Green returns home to care for his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia. Although his fathers short-term memory is fading, his oldest memories begin to reveal secrets and scandals long forgotten.

Mother and daughter Magdalena and Mila acquire a house in the White Valley of Cornwall in the summer of 1954. Magda has grand plans to restore the house to its former glory as a venue for glittering parties. Her grown daughter, Mila, just wants to escape the scandal in her past and make a safe and happy home for her little girl, Janey, a solitary, precocious child blessed with a vivid imagination, much of which she pours into stories about her magical plush toy, Rabbit. But Janey's rabbit isn't the only magical being around.

Après plusieurs années d'absence, un homme resurgit dans la vie de sa compagne et de leur jeune fils. Il les entraîne aux Roches, une vieille maison isolée dans la montagne où lui-même a grandi auprès d'un patriarche impitoyable. Entourés par une nature sauvage, la mère et le fils voient le père étendre son emprise sur eux et édicter les lois mystérieuses de leur nouvelle existence. Hanté par son passé, rongé par la jalousie, l'homme sombre lentement dans la folie. Bientôt, tout retour semble impossible.

From award-winning author Mitali Perkins and comes Between Us and Abuela , a timely debut audiobook about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States. It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years.