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Homeschooled: A Memoir
by Stefan Merrill Block
Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were stifling his creativity. Hungry for more time with her boy who was growing up too quickly, she began to instruct Stefan in the family's living room. Beyond his formal lessons in math, however, Stefan was largely left to his own devices and his mother's erratic whims. Years before homeschooling would become a massive nationwide movement, at a time when it had just become legal in his home state of Texas, Stefan vanished into that unseen space and into his mother's increasingly eccentric theories and projects. But when, after five years away from the outside world, Stefan reentered the public school system as a freshman and had a jarring awakening. At once a novelistic portrait of mother and son, and an illuminating window into an overlooked corner of the American education system, Homeschooled is a moving, funny and ultimately inspiring story of a son's battle for a life of his own choosing, and the wages of a mother's insatiable love.
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The Viper: A Zig & Nola Novel
by Brad Meltzer
When Andrew Fechmeier is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he heads for the local funeral home carrying the suit he eventually wants to be buried in. But what no one knows is that he secretly tucked something inside, turning the suit into a final, untraceable hiding spot. When he is brutally murdered by a someone who will stop at nothing to find the hidden priceless object, Roddy LaPointe opens an investigation and recruits his friend, the brilliant Zig Zigarowski to help. It doesn't take long for Zig to discover the real reason Roddy cares so much about this case: Fetch's death is tied to Roddy's mother, who was murdered decades earlier. As the relentless killer closes in, Roddy's twin sister, the enigmatic and volatile Nola Brown, starts investigating for herself, uncovering a sinister plot that reveals their mother's dark history, the true identity of her killer, and the shocking secret behind her death.
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The Gallagher Place
by Julie Doar
When Marlowe Fisher, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family's bewitching Hudson Valley home for the holidays, she discovers a body in the woods; a murder that draws her back into the haunting case of her teenage best friend's disappearance two decades earlier. What happened to Nora? As police descend on the sprawling Fisher property, Marlowe is pulled into an investigation that threatens to unravel the town's fragile loyalties and expose the shadowed legacy of a weekend home steeped in secrets. Marlowe must confront the fallibility of her own memory and the feeling that everyone, including her brothers, is hiding something if she's to uncover the shocking truth about her lost friend.
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Tidying Up: 100 Ways to Infuse Order and Joy Into Every Area of Your Home
by Ea Fuqua
Meg DeLong and Ea Fuqua, founders and owners of The Tidy Home, offer you a shame-free, straightforward approach to embracing organization as soul care. Whether you have a studio apartment or an overflowing farmhouse, Tidying Up will help you put into practice 100 strategies, organized room by room, that make an immediate difference and will help you create sustainable systems that free you rather than bog you down.
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In Your Dreams
by Sarah Adams
Madison Walker left Rome, Kentucky, determined to make it in the culinary world. But after years of chasing success in New York, all she has to show for it is her shattered confidence and a desperate need for a fresh start. Coming home isn't part of the plan until an unexpected job offer lands in her lap: the head chef position at a new farm-to-table restaurant in her hometown. The only catch? It comes from James Huxley, her brother's best friend. James has loved Madison quietly for years, knowing she's never seen him as more than an annoyance, but now that she's back, he's determined to change that. Madison and James are tasked with launching the dreamy restaurant in record time, but keeping things strictly professional soon becomes impossible, and the town can't help but meddle in their relationship. As opening night looms closer, Madison's fears threaten to hold her back. When an unexpected disaster collides with a long-simmering sibling feud, both Madison and James will have to face their biggest insecurities, and decide if love is worth the risk or if some dreams are safer left untouched.
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The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Mazzeo draws on new archival research to tell the true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship. In 1856, Mary Ann Patten and her husband set sail for San Francisco and soon encountered illness and mutiny. Taking the helm, Mary Ann navigated the Southern Ocean and deadly waters of Drake's Passage. Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, The Sea Captain's Wife finally gives Mary Ann Patten her due.
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The Living and the Dead
by Christoffer Carlsson
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other. The hunt for the killer will take more than twenty years. It will see the lead detective leave the force forever. And it won’t end until a second body turns up in similar circumstances, and the tight-knit community’s secrets are finally brought to light. In The Living and the Dead, renowned criminologist Carlsson masterfully transports us to the fields and forests of western Sweden, a region of farmers and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit, a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open and where no one is entirely innocent.
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The List of Suspicious Things
by Jennie Godfrey
Miv is panicking. Life hasn't been amazing since her mom got sick, but now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life. Because of the murders. But leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all? So, Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things on their street. People they know and people they don't. But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighborhood than they ever thought possible. What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home?
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Finding My Way: A Memoir
by Malala Yousafzai
In 2012, Malala Yousafzai was thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old, after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life. Millions of people around the world were inspired by her courage and dedication to fighting for girls' education, lining up to meet her and filling stadiums to hear her speak. But away from the cameras and crowds, Malala was still a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Now, Malala shares a breathtaking story of searching for identity, a candid exploration of coming of age in the spotlight, and an intimate look at her life today. With an accessible voice that showcases the parts of her life rarely shown in public, Malala traces her path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her remarkable past and hopeful for the future.
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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
by L. M. Chilton
Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything. Her crumbling apartment in the sleepy town of Crowhurst; her dead-end job, her sleazy landlord, her messy roommates, and most of all, the terrible thing they all did. Luckily, that hasn't caught up with her just yet. Until a new message on their old group chat pops up: Everyone in the group chat dies. It's the first text her ex-roommate Esme has sent for ages, but that's not the really weird thing. The really weird thing is that Esme died twelve months ago.
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