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- 1312.The Life Impossible: A Novel
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
- 1313.Here One Moment#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes a moving novel of love, marriage, family, and trying to find certainty in a fragile world.
“The premise is irresistible—a woman on a flight from Hobart to Sydney begins predicting the age and manner of death of her fellow passengers. Beautifully written, this propulsive novel has a serious theme. Could be a great . . . present for that special someone.”—Stephen King
“A riveting story so wild you don’t know how she’ll land it, and then she does, on a dime.”—Anne Lamott
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did?
Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement.
Suddenly a woman traveling alone stands. She walks down the aisle making predictions about how and when passengers will die. Some dismiss her, they don’t believe in psychics. Some are delighted with her prophecies! Their lives will supposedly be long. Others are appalled.
Then: a few months later, the first prediction comes true.
Intricately plotted, with the wonderful wit Liane Moriarty has become famous for, Here One Moment brilliantly looks at friends, lovers, and family and how we manage to hold onto them in our harried modern lives. - 1314.Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books: When Banned Books Shake Up a Small Georgia Town―A Funny and Poignant Novel about Censorship, Friendship, and Unexpected Connections
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
- 1315.It Starts with Us: A Novel (It Ends with Us)
Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.
But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life. - 1316.Rainbow Vintner
Morgan Kenworthy—a Berkeley student studying abroad and a guest of family friends who have a chateau in St. Émilion in France—uncovers a coup against the French government. Soon after she arrives in Bordeaux, a bombing at the Brassault Aviation plant—supposedly by jihadists—kills several ministers. After another bombing kills much of the rest of the cabinet, Morgan suspects the General leading the investigation of involvement, and when he announces that he is in charge, she fears for her life. She must rely on her wits and her friends for survival, until she can convince the remaining legitimate branches of the French Government who the real criminals are…
- 1317.For the Children: A Cold War Escape Story
For the Children is a narrative memoir that tells the true story of the author’s family's escape from Hungary and immigration to Canada in 1956, told from the viewpoint of the seven-year-old child he was at the time. After numerous attempts to flee from a revolution torn Stalinist Hungary ending in capture and disappointment, the author’s parents’ pursuit to give their children a better life finally bears success as they walk to freedom across a well-guarded and mine-strewn border. This is a gripping tale of bravery and the will to survive, the sometimes heart-breaking struggle for freedom, and the wonder and difficulties inherent in starting a life in a new country.
- 1318.The Fencers: A Cold War Escape Memoir (Cold War Escape Stories)
The Fencers, the third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical Cold War Escape stories, is both an immigrant's narrative of seeking a better life and a brighter future, and a sports memoir focusing on two Olympic fencers. At the Montreal 1976 Olympics, Paul Szabó, representing Romania, approaches his friend Geza Tatrallyay, representing Canada, to help him defect. The Fencers is an exciting true story of courage, friendship, love, happiness, success and tragedy.
- 1319.Arctic Meltdown
Arctic Meltdown, a highly relevant, gripping environmental thriller, is set against the backdrop of the melting polar icecap and the ensuing jostling for jurisdiction over additional seabed resources. Hanne Kristensen, a beautiful Danish geologist, has to contend with a corrupted UN process, China’s growing interest in Arctic resources and maritime routes, Russian military aggression and the resulting international tension to try to save the world from war and the Arctic from environmental catastrophe.
- 1320.Arctic Inferno
Arctic Inferno, sequel to Arctic Meltdown, is a timely and gripping international environmental thriller set against the background of the devastation of climate change and the melting of the polar ice cap. The heroine, Hanne Kristensen, the gorgeous Danish geologist named Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources for a newly independent Greenland, has to maneuver through a wave of setbacks to foil both a Chinese attempt to control Greenland’s natural resources and an aggressive Russian attempt to gain hegemony over the sparsely populated fledgling country as well as to save her friend, the ousted Premier of Russia, Pavel Laptov. This is an action-packed novel with lots of twists and turns guaranteed to keep readers at the edge of their seats, but also one that brings home the realities we could be living in the very near future.