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Rebound book6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Luke Bailey who-so help her God-she’s pretty sure she once shared baths with, back when they were kids. He is, in fact, Luke Bailey, aka the boy next door. ![]() Until the next day, when Abby realises who he actually is. Gazing deep into his sparkling emerald-green eyes, Abby knows instantly that he’s exactly what she needs to take her mind off everything. Until the first person she meets after she touches down is an absurdly hot guy called Luke, who offers her a lift home. Namely that she’s suddenly found herself unemployed, homeless and absolutely 100% single. Instead, she’s heading back to the childhood home in rural Ireland she swore she’d never return to, with some big old secrets. She wants to be in her beautiful loft apartment in Manhattan, drinking a coffee with her fiancé. It’s 7am on a Monday morning and Abby Reynolds isn’t where she wants to be. ![]()
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Gideon's Children by Howard G. Franklin6/30/2023 ![]() In this novel, Franklin attempts to recapture a unique time in American history: The judges represent the law-and-order element that wanted to keep a lid on change, and the public defenders are, in effect, the liberals who aimed to tear down the establishment. Meanwhile, Harris deals with the fact that his girlfriend, Stella, is battling cancer. This plays havoc with the system and makes enemies of the judges. Sparked by the feelings of rage in the air, Harris and other public defenders decide that they are going to stop advising their clients to take plea bargains because they usually result in innocent people receiving unjust punishment instead, they resolve to start trying every single case. Matt Harris joins the public defender’s office in Solina, California, where the court system is filled with bullying and prejudicial judges and where poor African-Americans, Hispanics and others at the bottom of society’s ladder receive no justice. That chaotic year is the setting for this legal thriller, which tries to recapture some of that era’s idealistic spirit. ![]() Kennedy were assassinated, Vietnam War protestors filled the streets, and violence broke out during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The year 1968 was a tumultuous time in America. An idealistic young public defender and his colleagues decide to stop plea-bargaining in Franklin’s ( An Irish Experience, 2008, etc.) historical novel. ![]()
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Bantam of the Opera by Mary Jane Auch6/30/2023 ![]() Who better than a chicken who loves to read to “hatch” an unputdownable plot. “On the first day of spring,” she begins, “my teacher gave to me, a garden to water carefully.” By the end, the kids are fully involved, all of them enthusiastically visualized by artist Carey Armstrong-Ellis in his multimedia illustrations. Ages 4 to 8.ĭeborah Lee Rose adapts a familiar tune from Christmas to a counting book for spring. ![]() The Twelve Days of Springtime: A School Counting Book. Toklas, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Basket the poodle – and a mute bear in a chair – enliven what becomes a party to end all parties. Jonah Winter offers an affectionate interpretation of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), whose experimental writing was regarded as avant-garde in its day, made somewhat accessible here in what amounts to a clever play on words. Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude. Splendid quotations on each page to complement Gary Kelley’s richly textured paintings. Roosevelt, but this nicely researched narrative takes in the full sweep of her eventful life. ![]() Most of the world, of course, knows Roosevelt from her years as the wife of President Franklin D. and Abraham Lincoln – with a penetrating profile of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962). ![]() ![]() Ages 6 to 12.Ĭaldecott Honor author Doreen Rappaport takes on another larger-than-life figure – her previous subjects have included Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor, Quiet No More: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. ![]() |