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61) Trashlands
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides...In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a plucker, pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge...When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. But is it possible to choose...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone. Now, her mother Laurel Mack is trying to put her life back together. It's been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - "Wainscotia, Wisconsin" - that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic midwestern town, she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation" -but cannot resist fallin in...
64) Save what's left
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. Who said anything about being happy? They live in Kansas, for goodness sake! But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town that has always looked lovely in the Christmas cards her childhood friend Josie sends every...
65) The round house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
Author
Series
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has...
67) The salt path
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 270 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered...