Wasatch County Library

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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...

2) Where'd you go, Bernadette: a novel

Author

Semple, Maria

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13

Language

English

Formats

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When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,...

3) Crazy rich Asians

Author

Kwan, Kevin

Series

Rich novels (Kevin Kwan) volume 1
Crazy Rich Asians

Language

English

Formats

Description

Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.

4) The wedding

Author

Steel, Danielle

Language

English

Formats

Description

As she plans her Hollywood wedding, Allegra Steinberg and her family learn important lessons about life and love.

5) Big little lies

Author

Moriarty, Liane

Language

English

Formats

Description

Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

6) The tenant of Wildfell Hall

Author

Brontë, Anne

Series

Oxford world's classics

Language

English

Formats

Description

Helen Huntingdon, having left her unhappy marriage to save her son from the influence of his alcoholic father, struggles to make her way in the restrictive society of Victorian England.

7) What Alice forgot

Author

Moriarty, Liane

Language

English

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Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.

8) The ninth hour : a novel

Author

McDermott, Alice

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

"[Euan Morton's] steady, gentle delivery allows McDermott's elegant prose to shine. It's a quiet story about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance similarly brims with emotion but never overflows." — AudioFile magazine
A magnificent new audiobook from one of America's finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century

...

9) Like gold refined

Author

Oke, Janette

Series

Prairie Legacy volume 4

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

Formats

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Virginia is not prepared to face the decline of her grandparents' health and her adopted daughter's questions about her birth mother.

10) Coming out

Author

Steel, Danielle

Language

English

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Chaos erupts in the Rubinstein household when Olympia's twin daughters are invited to New York's most exclusive debutante ball--with one twin and Olympia's current husband refusing to attend, and the other young woman and Olympia's snobbish ex-husband already shopping for the event.

11) Among the missing

Author

Chaon, Dan

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Pub. Date

Edition

1st trade pbk. ed.

Language

English

Description

Oxford World's Classics
Barnes and Noble Classics
Penguin classics

Focusing on the condition of the modern family, a thematically linked collection of short fiction captures the lives, dreams, and fates of men, women, and children who live outside of the American Dream.

12) Sense and sensibility

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22

Language

English

Formats

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Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars

...

13) Birthright

Author

Roberts, Nora

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

When a backhoe blade hits a 5,000-year-old human skull, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is called to excavate the site. She almost quits when she finds her new partner is her ex-husband, Jake, but it turns out that he is only the beginning of her problems.

14) Sharp objects: a novel

Author

Flynn, Gillian

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12

Language

English

Formats

Description

Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

15) Milk glass moon: a Big Stone Gap novel

Author

Trigiani, Adriana

Series

Big Stone Gap novels volume 3

Language

English

Formats

Description

In the rural town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney struggles to deal with change as her daughter enters her teen years, growing more and more strong-willed, and Ave Maria embarks on a journey into her past that she never thought she would take.

16) For love

Author

Miller, Sue

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c1993

Edition

1st ed.

Language

English

Description

"For Love tells the story of Lottie Gardner, her brother Cameron, and their childhood friend Elizabeth, who all come together one summer in their hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, after years of separation. The packing up of her mother's house and the rekindling of the romance between Cameron and Elizabeth lead Lottie to look back at her past, as well as to consider the future of her own new marriage. The intrusion of a senseless tragedy upon...

17) Apples never fall: a novel

Author

Moriarty, Liane

Language

English

Formats

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The Delaney family is a communal foundation. Stan and Joy are the envy of all of their friends. They're killer on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are they so miserable? The four Delaney children, Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke, were tennis stars in their own right,...

18) Little fires everywhere: a novel

Author

Ng, Celeste

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18

Language

English

Appears on list

Reese's Book Club

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The #1 New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more
“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s...

19) The light between oceans: a novel

Author

Stedman, M. L

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, eBook, Kindle, Sound Disc

"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore"--

20) Take me home: a novel

Author

Hughes, Dean

Series

Hearts of the children volume 4

Language

English

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