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eBooks for September September 2022 |
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The Girl Who fell to Earth : A Memoir by Sophia Al-MariaIn this funny and wry coming-of-age story, an award-winning young filmmaker shares her experiences growing up in between the American and Arab cultures during which she found young love in the Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo and self-discovery in the mountains of Sinai.
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The Girl Who Chased the Moonby Sarah Addison AllenMoving in with the grandfather she never knew after the death of her mother, Emily witnesses bizarre supernatural activities in her new North Carolina community while befriending its remarkable residents.
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The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Waterby Erin BartelsAn anonymous letter from a Very Disappointed Reader sends a novelist back to the lake where she spent her childhood summers in order to prove that what she wrote happened the way she'd remembered. But the truth turns out to be far more complicated, showing that sometimes the story we think we're telling is another story altogether.
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The Girl Who Left
by Jenny Blackhurst
Twenty-five years ago, a local girl went missing. Now, another girl comes back... When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it sent shockwaves through the tight-knit community. How could one of their own do such a thing? Especially when his own little girl was the same age – and the victim's best friend.
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The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
To save her family's plantation, sixteen-year-old Eliza Lucas strikes up a deal with a slave, who in exchange for being taught to read will teach Eliza the secrets of the indigo trade.
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The Girl Who was Taken by Charlie DonleaA year after one of two missing girls becomes famous for escaping from a mysterious abductor, the recovered girl's forensic pathologist older sister discovers clues that may reveal the fate of other missing teens.
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
by Kelli Estes
A college student investigates the sad story of a displaced Chinese American in 1886 before making a discovery in a scrap of silk that forces her to choose between her family's honor and the truth.
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila HarrisTired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books, 26-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel is hired -- until she, after a string uncomfortable events, is elevated to Office Darling, leaving Nella in the dust.
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The Girl on the Balcony : Olivia Hussey Finds Life After Romeo & Juliet by Olivia HusseyIn 1968, Olivia Hussey became one of the most famous faces in the world, immortalized as the definitive Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. Now the iconic girl on the balcony shares the ups and downs of her truly remarkable life and career ... from being an "It Girl" in swinging 60s London and her enduring friendship with Romeo & Juliet co-star Leonard Whiting, through three tumultuous marriages, motherhood, stage-four breast cancer, debilitating agoraphobia, bankruptcy, and ultimately, a journey of self-discovery in India that led her on a path to fulfillment.
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn JacksonHer suburban life thrown into chaos when she is visited by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old girl who has just drowned under suspicious circumstances, Laurel begins questioning the characters of her seemingly innocent neighbors with the help of her unpredictable sister.
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The Girl Who Survived by Lisa JacksonThe sole survivor of a brutal family massacre 20 years earlier, Kars McIntyre wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released.
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The Girl Who Disappeared Twiceby Andrea KaneWhen they are hired by veteran family court judge Hope Willis to find her missing daughter, Forensic Investigators--a team of renegade investigators composed of a behavorist, a techno-wizard, an intuitive and a former Navy SEAL--must race against time to bring Krissy back alive.
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continuing Stieg Larsson's Millenium Series
Accepting help from Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the truth about her traumatic childhood, Lisbeth Salander navigates obstacles in the form of an anti-Muslim gang, her mafia-connected twin, and the conductors of a pseudoscientific experiment. |
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The Girl in Green by Derek B. MillerA tale set in the aftermath of Desert Storm finds a British journalist who avoids his family and a reckless American private seeking redemption after failing to save the life of a young girl.
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The Girl in the Woods by Gregg OlsenNative American pathologist Birdy Waterman goes up against a female serial killer, whose powers of persuasion seem to have no end, and, along with sheriff's detective Kendall Stark, must play a deadly game in which she is forced to make a fateful decision.
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda QuickDiscovering the body of a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool at an exclusive California hotel, rookie reporter Irene Glasson investigates the victim's secret about an up-and-coming man and becomes drawn to a once-famous master magician whose career was mysteriously cut short.
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads : A Story of War and What Comes Afterby Clemantine WamariyaTraces the author's harrowing experiences as a young child during the Rwanda massacres and displacements, which separated her from her parents and forced the author and her older sister to endure six years as refugees in seven countries, foraging for survival and encountering unexpected acts of cruelty and kindness before she was granted asylum in a profoundly different America.
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