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1) The circle
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The day that Cedar Sage Stranger has been both dreading and longing for has finally come: her sister Phoenix is getting out of prison. The effect of Phoenix's release cascades through the community. Amid accusations and plots for revenge, past grievances become a poor guide in a moment of danger, and the clumsy armature of law enforcement is no match for the community. Cedar and her mother continue down different paths of healing, while everyone in...
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Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she's hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers....
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Hamish Hamilton
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From the bestselling author of MISTAKES TO RUN WITH, a heartrending tale of a mother hell-bent on saving her family after her daughter's suicide attempt--despite the destruction it might mean for herself. When Rose's 17-year-old daughter, Juliet, attempts suicide, she does everything she can to hold her family together despite the inevitable unravelling that follows. Her husband Syd thinks their daughter is fine, that she's going through a phase,...
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This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington, D. C., three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a large catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground,...
5) Summer
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"In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown--and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change. The're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what...
7) Ballistics
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Hamish Hamilton
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From the author of "Once You Break a Knuckle" comes a family drama with two narratives set in Western Canada, thirty years apart. In 2003, while the firestorm rages through Kelowna, Alan West is asked to rescue his estranged father, Jack, who abandoned him as a baby. So Alan sets off with Puck, a three-legged English mastiff, on a quest that takes him deep into the fires while encountering people from his past he never knew. Unbeknownst to Alan, he...
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Hamish Hamilton
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"From the critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction set amidst the wind-blown shores of Newfoundland, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive. The Connor family is one of the few that is still left in their idyllic fishing village, Big Running, Newfoundland; after the fish mysteriously disappeared, most...
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