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Fourteen-year-old Tessa has always loved her grandmother's family fun park. Once a dazzling display of roadside attractions, highlighted by her grandmother's puppet show, the park is now struggling after her parents inherited it. This might be the park's last summer. Tessa, missing her grandmother, can't bring herself to take over the puppet show, no matter how many times her parents ask. Luckily, a strange traveling puppeteer offers to do the show...

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that author Judy Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going...

"Eat Post Like is a heartwarming debut novel of self-discovery, resilience, and the transformative power of food"-- Provided by publisher.

"From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own"-- Provided by publisher.

"Lucy's brother, Mikey, is dead. Two years ago, when he left their small Eastern Colorado town and moved west to Denver, he'd intended to bring Lucy along. But Lucy is too late. She arrives in search of Helen, a woman Mikey loved. But when Lucy moves in across the hall, she finds nothing is as she expected: the city is crumbling; the weather is tempestuous; a predator is on the loose; the old woman in the attic needs company; desire is being compressed...

"A sweeping multigenerational story centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love. London, England, September 1940. Thirteen-year-old Susan McEwan and her older brother, Phillip-himself a pilot-witness firsthand the initial Nazi bombing of civilian London. Weeks later, Phillip's Sunderland is shot down, and his family is wordlessly devastated. Toronto, Canada, the early 1980s. As a young couple struggles to survive the Reagan recession, the...

As Guy, a feckless high school senior, plans the party of the year, Rafi worries about her mother, who is grieving over the death of Rafi's baby brother, while Rafi's uncle hatches a plan to steal one of the most famous paintings in the world.

Following a tragic boating accident during the summer before her senior year of high school, Quinn goes through life in a daze of grief until the new boy in town, Alexander, helps her begin to understand the truth about love and loss.

"A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from newcomer Gus Moreno"-- Provided by publisher.

She's already forgotten, but can she forgive? After a near-fatal crash, Savannah Brand awakens to discover years have been wiped from her memory. What she does recall is her love for husband, Bruce, and their blissful life together. Then Bruce blindsides her with the news that preaccident Savannah had filed for divorce. Savannah can't believe it; she just wants to return to Sugar Creek Ranch with her husband. Bruce is hesitant, still reeling from...