Our Lives in Between follows a young woman named Veronica…until she dies. Next thing she knows, her name is Harmony. As her mind floods with the thousands of lifetimes she has lived, a pattern begins to surface. Veronica’s boyfriend, Seth, or as Harmony knows him, Kaleb, appears to be a catalyst for tragedy in each life. For Harmony, what had begun as just a hypothesis has spiraled into much more. As she incidentally begins to pull back the curtains of her world, newfound love, extreme fate, and budding conspiracy slowly worm themselves out of the shadows.
Sam is just about to enter her senior year of school, when she finds out that because the past few months while her dad’s promotion has called for him commuting longer hours daily, it has taken its toll on the family. So, her parents have decided to move closer to his job causing Sam to have to switch high schools during her last year. She’s beyond mad at her parents for not considering her feelings.
The Hammer, a fascinating story, is about the life of a young boy named Corvan. The story started with Corvan having his usual nightmares and progressed to the part where he got bullied in school due to his short stature, which was unusual in his environment as it seemed only he and his father had this kind of stature. He had a friend called Kate who usually stood up for him and wouldn't hesitate to fight back, but in this case, she had avoided him and tried not to meddle in his affairs.
Tempting Fake by Tracey Morait follows dual protagonists, who both feel isolated from their peers and rely on Pictapost (a popular picture-posting and chat app) to feel connected. However, both teens cope by using Pictapost differently. Behind one side of the screen is Cherry, Helton Manor’s “New Girl”, seeking validation. Her validation comes from creepy fans’ likes, comments, and direct messages on her risky photos and flirtatious captions.
Dr. Lindsey McCall is the head of the Animal Science Center at a college. She starts to get to know one of the students who is friends with her daughter's roommate and realizes he is in need of some help. Joey is a transgender male and has been having regrets about transitioning from female to male. But, because of pressure from a doctor on campus, he feels the need to continue his journey. When Lindsey learns about this, she decides that she will help Joey to make the right decision and keep himself safe. She meets with her friend Kate Townsend who is an investigative journalist.
Terry A. Repak’s Circling Home: What I Learned by Living Elsewhere engages the reader through her unique memoir as a mother of two young children who travels with Stefan, her husband and CDC epidemiologist, to Abidjan, Ivory Coast in West Africa. After living in Africa until the age of six with his refugee Polish parents, Stefan fulfills his dream of helping people during the AIDS crisis in the early nineties. Terry decides to put her writing career on hold to care for her newly adopted young daughter and accompany Stefan as he works for the CDC.
What Was Left Of Her is a captivating story about a young woman named Cassie, who had just lost her beloved aunt who was like a mother to her and her sister Alex. Their aunt, Lucie, was a beautiful woman of class and refined elegance, and anyone who knew her could attest to the fact that she seemed out of place in the small, downtrodden town where she spent most of her life. Why she never left was a mystery. How she died was a mystery.
The Snow Queen is an adventurous fairy tale book about how an evil snow queen manages, with the help of an ice wizard, to possess both children and teenagers, to try to fulfill her misplaced thirst for fame, wealth, and love. The queen's hidden secret is that she feels unlucky, having never found someone who could truly love her. In the book, her first victim is an innocent and fatherless teenage boy named Adam. The queen traps Adam within a kaleidoscope that the ice wizard skillfully makes for her.
The Incredibly Amazing and Magical Flying Chair by Bob Shumaker and Nancy Machlis Rechtman features the story of Noah Gibson, a seventh-grader who cherishes an undying love for magic. His father’s mysterious disappearance has deeply troubled the entire family, and Noah is no exception in this regard. Although his father could barely make ends meet with his meager income as a magician, Noah is determined to follow his father’s path and remain involved with magic shows.
Last Night at the Circle Cinema is a coming-of-age novel by Emily Franklin that follows the last night that three high school seniors have together before they graduate. Olivia, Bertucci, and Codman are in a friendship “triangle” that has complications as they each navigate their aspirations, the dynamics of their relationships, and loss. The mastermind, Bertucci, strategically plans the night with relics of their past that send each friend down memory lane. The truths of the past are uncovered, despite how much they each try to bury them.
