'Til Next Time

'Til Next Time
Author: Nelly Taylor
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2023-07-13
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

"I'd never loved anyone as much as I loved Wynter, and somehow, I was expected to just let her go." Fifteen-year-old Seth Rosenberg has just entered his freshman year of high school--isolated, friendless, and eager to have the next three years pass him by as swiftly as possible. But when Wynter Meadows, the widely popular, not to mention Seth's biggest crush, reveals that she is in the midst of a battle against leukemia, his entire world is flipped upside down. Seeing that Seth is the only student to know of Wynter's condition, the two of them end up forming an unlikely yet secret friendship. During which, Seth learns that Wynter has chosen not to treat her disease and, consequentially, has been given less than a year to live. With the monumentally important task of changing Wynter's mind weighing heavily on him, Seth must deal with the intense roller-coaster ride that accompanies being friends with Wynter Meadows while also being painfully aware of the unfortunate reality that awaits if he is to fail his mission.

Wait Till Next Year

Wait Till Next Year
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439188580

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

The Diary of V

The Diary of V
Author: Debra Kent
Publisher: Vision
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2009-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446566896

In her very wild diary, V tells all as she watches her husband and his philandering. V has to live in a sham marriage as she seeks information on her husband, his financial affairs and proof of his sexual affairs.

Teeth

Teeth
Author: Edo van Belkom
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625670575

“I expect it to knock people’s socks off, the way Stephen King’s Carrie did . . . Teeth will haunt you for the rest of your life” (Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award-winning author of Calculating God). They think they’re getting lucky. They’re dead wrong. Det. Joe Williams has seen all kinds of murder scenes. Some brutal, some gory, all disturbing and horrific in their way. Nothing could have prepared him for what’s waiting in Apartment 413. A man—what’s left of him—lying in a pool of his own blood, his face frozen in a silent scream. That’s just the first. Soon there are more victims, all male, all mutilated, seeming to have little in common except an agonizing death by castration. All of them went looking for pleasure. Instead they found a killer wreaking vengeance in the most bloodthirsty way. And the only clue Williams has found is a tiny, gleaming metal tooth . . . Edo van Belkom—winner of the Bram Stoker and Aurora Awards—delves into the heart of man’s most primal fear in a shocking, suspenseful, terrifying novel that bites down hard . . . and won’t let go. “One of 2001’s best horror novels.” —Science Fiction Chronicle “Teeth works on several levels: as an over-the-edge contemporary horror novel, as a police procedural, and as a thriller. Edo van Belkom’s mastery of the art of storytelling is brought to bear on this unforgettable novel.” —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Calculating God “Edo van Belkom drags us screaming into the maw of horror.” —Richard Laymon, international bestselling author of The Traveling Vampire Show

To Walk in Sunshine

To Walk in Sunshine
Author: Sally Laity
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683221923

Enjoy an historical romance from author Sally Laity as you journey into coal mining country of 1920s Pennsylvania. Ken Roberts, a coal miner, and Rosalind Gilbran, an Lebanese immigrant, develop a friendship that is forbidden by her Old World family. Also includes a bonus novel, The Train Stops Here by Gail Sattler, in which cultures clash between a hobo and the daughter of a man charged with sweeping the trains of freeloaders.

Suddenly the Storm

Suddenly the Storm
Author: Paul Slabolepszy
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1776140931

A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination. Combative, volatile, constantly on the verge of exploding, Dwayne and Shanell Combrink are two halves of a white South African working-class couple, living an uneasy truce as they struggle with the day-to-day trials of scraping together a living and dreaming competing dreams. But beneath Dwayne's angry, violent exterior lies the heartbreak that governs his attitude to life. Dwayne is a man in mourning. Shanell believes his current level of despair was sparked by the death of his childhood friend and recent work partner, Jonas, but the source of his mourning and anger lies much further back. When the elegant and self-contained Namhla Gumede, born on 16 June 1976, arrives on their doorstep seeking answers to questions that have remained buried for 40 years, Dwayne and Shanell finally find out the truth. What starts as a smouldering dark comedy suddenly turns into a roller-coaster ride of startling revelations, rage and recrimination, before the storm finally breaks.

Capping Courage

Capping Courage
Author: Judy Wright Brooks
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2022-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Capping Courage By: Judy Wright Brooks Capping Courage is a unique story that invites the reader to experience the life, joys, and hardships of Kort Olanna, a young Inuit boy who must take on the responsibility of supporting his family after his father’s untimely death. The bitter cold of the region and his sensitive, timid nature are a trying but motivating experience that help to change his fearfulness into a growing, courageous heart. That, along with the solving of a crime, creates a powerful message to children young and old.

I Know What I Seen

I Know What I Seen
Author: Bill Kowalski
Publisher: William Kowalski
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0615260047

An odd look at suburban dinosaurs; bad mentors; peculiar relatives; ridiculous horoscopes; and episodes of intense, communal digestive distress among the Pilgrims of Mayflower Colony.