Change of Plans - S. Dessen Finley has always felt most comfortable in someone else’s shadow. Fortunately, she’s got Colin, her magnetic boyfriend, who sweeps her along for activities, friendships, and future plans. Then she goes on a last-minute trip with her distant mom to a family vacation house that is being sold and that Finley didn’t know existed. A Founding Mother - S. Dray In time for the 250th Anniversary of the birth of the United States comes a sweeping, intimate portrayal of Abigail Adams - wife of one president and mother to another - whose wit, willpower, and wisdom helped shape the fledgling republic. A stunning historical novel with modern-day implications. John of John - D. Stuart Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother. Mercy Hill - H Thurman A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sisterhood, loyalty, and mental health in America. The Things We Never Say - E. Strout Artie Dam spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding young minds and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He makes small talk with neighbors and takes his sailboat out on Massachusetts Bay. Artie looks out at a world gone mad and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us? 5/12: June Baby - S. Garvey Both a heartfelt coming-of-age story and a tender exploration of love and grief, set against a backdrop of golden dunes and seaside sunsets, June Baby shows us what it might look like to embrace a life shaped not by loss, but by possibility.
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