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81) P.S. I miss you
Author
Language
English
Description
"Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant older sister, Cilla, away to stay with a distant great-aunt. All Evie wants is for her sister to come back. Forbidden from speaking to Cilla, Evie secretly sends her letters. Evie writes about her family, torn apart and hurting. She writes about her life, lonely without Cilla. And she writes about the new girl in school, June, who becomes her friend, and then maybe more than a...
82) Hame
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Commissioned to set up a museum on a remote island in the north of Scotland and to write the biography of the island's celebrated poet and chronicler, Mhairi McPhail is slowly drawn in by the complicated life she is uncovering and writing about-the Bard of Fascaray-as she finds herself being transformed, awakened by the ferocity and power of the island. Who was the celebrated poet, Grigor McWatt, The Bard of Fascaray? What was his past? Details...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Author Jaclyn Moriarty's first novel is a #1 bestseller in its native Australia and a Book Sense 76 Pick, and has been nominated Best Book of the Year by the ALA. Told entirely through sticky notes from her mother, messages to "a Complete and Utter Stranger," and letters from fictitious companies, listeners get a peek into the complex life of teenager Elizabeth Clarry.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson-an orphan who lost her family to consumption and fever-finds herself the begrudged guest at the home of her relatives in Newport. Emily's longing to be an artist is dismissed by her puritanical uncle, who wants nothing more than to rid himself of her through marriage. Her only friend is her aesthete cousin, William, an ailing young writer. When a promising engagement to the eligible Captain Lindsay is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, hilarious, endlessly inventive debut, Hey Harry, Hey Matilda is the story--told entirely in emails--of fraternal twins Harry and Matilda Goodman as they fumble into adulthood, telling lies and keeping secrets, and finally confronting their complicated twin-ship"--
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Abby Reynolds was given the letters written by her great-great-grandmother who traveled from Virginia to New Mexico in a covered wagon just after the Civil War. Now, at a crossroads in her life, Abby reads Abigail's letters and follows her ancestor's trail westward where she seeks to understand the other woman's life in a land that was so foreign to her family, they all but forgot her.
Between Earth and Sky records two journeys-Abby's...
92) The Roxy letters
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bridget Jones's Diary meets Where'd You Go, Bernadette in this comic novel about twenty-something Roxy, an unlucky-in-love Whole Foods employee, aspiring artist, and sometimes vegan, who teams up with her two best friends to save Austin from gentrification-and to save her personal life-in whatever way she can.
The Roxy Letters is a hilarious and heartwarming novel told through the letters that the charming and hapless Roxy, a twenty-eight-year-old...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worry--and begins writing a letter to her daughter that will convey the lessons she learned during her own troubled adolescence in rural Louisiana.
94) Anybody shining
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.
Author
Series
Dragonsitter volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween the night is full of strange creatures: witches, vampires, ghosts and dragons. In their seventh adventure Eddie and Emily take their uncle's pet dragons trick or treating. But the dragons have quite the sweet tooth, and it's not long before things go ghoulishly wrong ...
96) Abigail's diary
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Explore the world of DreamWorks Animation's Spirit Riding Free with this new series, written in diary format, featuring the innermost thoughts of Abigail Stone as she adventures with her best friends, Lucky and Pru!
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In a story told in letters, when Claire's best friend moves away just before the start of fifth grade, Claire becomes the only girl in her tiny island elementary school--and suddenly boys she has been friends with her whole life turn into resentful, bullying strangers.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"At Dreams & Desires, 50-year-old Emma's quaint bookshop in Milan dedicated to romantic fiction, the passionate bookseller serves coffee and tea to her customers and completes order slips in pen rather than using a computer. One day, she finds a mysterious handwritten note stuck between the pages of a novel. The message is from her high school sweetheart Frederico, who is now a successful architect in New York and whom she hasn't seen in thirty years....
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