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The breakaway

a novel
2023
"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she's always wanted. Yet Abby can't escape the feeling that some?thing isn't right . . . or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, she's happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind. But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the group--Sebastian, the one-night stand she thought she'd never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then there's a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities she's still trying to undo. Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways . . . and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love"--Provided by publisher.

[Vidcha?dushni vershnyky

Pryhodny?t?s?ka povist?]
2023
The Rusnak family travels through the Dnieper region, where they come across the historic Black Way, find themselves in the nighttime Black Forest and on the shores of Black Lake, the most mystical of Ukrainian lakes. Peaceful vacation turned into a whole cascade of adventures and strange antics, when it turned out that Natalochka's new acquaintance needed to save his unusual friend--Translated from OCLC.

The celebrants

a novel
2023
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living "funerals," celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living--and living well--five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.

Moana 2

2024
"After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced"--Provided by publisher.

A midsummer night's dream

2021
Reimagines Shakespeare's "A midsummer night's dream," narrated from Puck's perspective as he causes mischief in the Fairy Kingdom after four young nobles from Athens enter the enchanted forest.

The underdogs of Upson Downs

2024
Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.

White Fang

2021
Chronicles the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of the Yukon.

Don Quixote

the crazy adventures of a knight-in-training
2022
"Alonso is an old man who is obsessed with stories of heroism. So, he reinvents himself as Don Quixote, knight-in-training! Accompanied by his servant-turned-squire, Sancho, as well as his trusty old horse Rosinante, he sets off on many crazy adventures. Join this wacky knight as he attempts to battle giants that aren't giants and saves maidens who might not want to be saved!"--Back cover.

Don Quixote

a retelling
2024
A retelling of the epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in seventeenth-century Spain.

The last dragon on Mars

2024
Thirteen-year-old Lunar Jones was born on Mars, with every day a struggle, until he stumbles into a restricted military zone where he learns dragons are real and a new dragon has chosen him as a rider--a role he needs to embrace quickly because this dragon could save the Martian colony.

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