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New Adult Fiction and Nonfiction April 2025 Pt. 2 |
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World Book Online
World Book Online supports all ages of students with their learning and research. With online encyclopedias available in Spanish and French, games and videos, and activities, as well as research articles and newspapers, this site can help every child to learn.
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Michael Without Apology
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
A film student struggling with self-acceptance finally stops looking away from his traumatic past. Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman, he is still trying to hide the effects of his trauma from his classmates, his adoptive family, and himself. When Michael signs up for a film class, he meets Robert Dunning, a teacher who wears his own scars unapologetically. Robert encourages Michael to make a documentary that explores body image and self-perception. Michael places an ad seeking people who feel unattractive and rejected by society-and is surprised to learn that this is essentially everyone.
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Murder takes a vacation : a novel
by Laura Lippman
Former private investigator and middle-aged widow Muriel Blossom's vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery… that only she can solve.
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Never the Roses
by Jennifer K. Lambert
UNSTOPPABLE WAR. UNSPEAKABLE SINS. IMPOSSIBLE LOVE. Genevieve Gornichec's The Witch's Heart meets Madeline Miller's Circe in this epic and deeply emotional romantic fantasy debut by Jennifer K. Lambert. The Dread Sorceress Oneira has retired. She's exhausted from fighting the endless wars of kings and queens, and has long accepted that her death is near. Alone at last but for a few uninvited companions-a near-mythical wolf, a goddess's avatar, and a feline that embodies magic itself-Oneira realizes that she's bored. On a whim, or perhaps at the behest of fate, she makes an unlikely trip to the most extensive library in existence: the home of her most powerful rival, the sorcerer Stearanos.
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Rings of Fate
by Melissa De La Cruz
Princess Bride meets The Wheel of Time , in an epic romantasy where a sharp-tongued barmaid and an infuriatingly handsome prince agree to a fake engagement to stop a deadly magical power.
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Seven Year Itch
by Amy Daws
Alone and Looking to Bone! Loudmouthed Mountain Man Seeks Fiery Woman to Grow Old With. I might look like a tall, tattooed, bearded neanderthal...but like an onion, I have layers. Swipe right if you like a proud cat daddy who catches feelings after direct eye contact. All I wanted was a casual plus-one to my brother's destination wedding, but those idiots on my family tree hacked my dating profile and sabotaged my quest for the perfect weekend fling. Now I'm stuck on a tropical vacation with only my hand to keep me company. Until I'm forced to share a room with the bane of my existence: my sister-in-law's best friend
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Shadows in the moonlight
by Santa Montefiore
To settle the restless ghost haunting an English manor in the present day, timeshifter Pixie Tate travels to the Victorian era to solve the mystery of a missing child. There, she accidentally meets the love of her life. C.J. Cooke's The Ghost Woods meets Diana Gabaldon's Outlander in this gorgeous, gothic, time-travel romance.
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She didn't see it coming
by Shari Lapena
When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: Can the detectives find her before it's too late?
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Slow Burn Summer
by Josie Silver
A talent agent hires an actress play the part of "novelist" on a book tour for his agency's publicity-shy client in this delightful rom-com. One Day in December She's playing the part of romance author, but has she found her own real life love story? Talent agent Charlie Francisco has three problems: a divorce that ended his screenwriting career, a business he never planned to inherit, and a take-your-breath-away romance novel whose author wants nothing to do with its publication. The book is a surefire hit, if only his agency can find someone to "play" author on its summer book tour. Enter Kate Elliott, a former soap actress who's miraculously right for the part at the very moment her life seems to be going all wrong.
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Storybook ending : a novel
by Moira Macdonald
In a Seattle bookstore, a misinterpreted note sparks a tangled web of mistaken identities as tech worker April and single mom Laura form an unexpected connection, all while oblivious Westley becomes the unintentional center of their romantic hopes.
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The Baby Dragon Cafe
by A. T. Qureshi
The perfect cosy fantasy read for fans of Legends and Lattes and Pumpkin Spice Cafe! When Saphira opened up her café for baby dragons and their humans, she wasn't expecting it to be so difficult to keep the fires burning. It turns out, young dragons are not the best magical animals to keep in a café, and replacing all that burnt furniture is costing Saphira more than she can afford from selling dragon-roasted coffee. Aiden is a local gardener, and local heart-throb, more interested in his plants than actually spending time with his disobedient baby dragon. When Aiden walks into Saphira's café, he has a genius idea - he'll ask Saphira to train his baby dragon, and he'll pay her enough to keep the café afloat. Saphira knows her happy-go-lucky attitude isn't Aiden's cup of tea, but everywhere she goes, Aiden seems to follow. Has Saphira finally found the answer to the baby dragon cafe's problems, and maybe a little love along the way, too?
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The Battle of the Bookshops
by Poppy Alexander
A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt's beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition-which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family's rivals. The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home of Capelthorne's Books for nearly a hundred years. The shop, in the heart of a high street that stretches crookedly down the hill from the castle to the sea, may be a tad run-down these days, but to Jules Capelthorne, the wonky, dusty world of literary treasures is full of precious childhood memories.
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The Bewitching
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga. As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay's manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch. Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.
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The book club for troublesome women : a novel
by Marie Bostwick
In suburban Virginia of the 1960s, Margaret Ryan forms an impromptu book club with three neighbors, discovering shared dissatisfaction with societal expectations, as the group bonds over personal struggles, feminist ideas and the transformative power of friendship during a life-changing year. Original.
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Nanny Dearest
by Flora Collins
Sue Keller is lost. When her father dies suddenly, she's orphaned in her mid-twenties...Then Sue meets Annie. It's been twenty years...She was Sue's live-in nanny at their big house upstate, and she loved Sue like she was her own...Sue is only too eager to welcome Annie back into her life; but as they become inseparable once again, Sue starts to uncover the truth about Annie's unsettling time in the Keller house all those years ago, particularly the manner of her departure--or dismissal.
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Showdown Trail : The Red Rider of Smoky Range
by William Colt MacDonald
Jeff Deming returned to the Rocking-D Ranch after four years of college, hoping for the chance to implement some of the ideas he was sure would improve the ranch. But John Deming felt a man should prove himself first and had Jeff working like a hired hand. Jeff was quickly getting back in shape, but was still receiving a lot of "kidding" and the worst came from the foreman, Quinn Barker. Jeff expressed his distrust of Barker and refused to stay on the ranch and work under Barker. John threatens to sell the ranch if Jeff cares so little for it that he won't stay. Jeff leaves and John sells the ranch to Barker. On his way home from the sale, John is ambushed. Barker has Jeff arrested for the murder and takes possession of the ranch. Things look bad for Jeff until strange events start happening in his favor and a mysterious man dressed in red appears to be responsible.
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The Do-over
by Bethany Turner
McKenna Keaton is perfectly content with her single life-until a work scandal, a family curse, and the reappearance of Henry Blumenthal make her question a life's worth of good choices.
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The end of getting lost : a novel
by Robin Kirman
Unable to recall the last year of her life after suffering a head injury on her honeymoon, Gina Reinhold, a young dancer, has the growing sense that her husband is keeping secrets from her as the truth grows more elusive.
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Mouthwatering Sauerkraut and Kimchi : Fermentation Made Easy!
by Holly Howe
If you're new to making sauerkraut or if your previous fermentation attempts were noxious smelling or had strange things growing on them, this step-by-step guide is for you. Holly Howe, the 'Julia Child of sauerkraut' shows you exactly how to ferment your own cabbage to create safe-to-eat, mouthwatering sauerkraut that improves your digestion, supports your immune system, boosts your mood, and adds flavor to any meal. Mouthwatering Sauerkraut offers expert advice on how to make sauerkraut you'll actually enjoy eating... and will know is safe to eat.
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