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by Lisa Moore
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsWritten in Lisa Moore's exuberant and inimitable style, Flannery is by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, empowering and harrowing often all on the same page. It is a novel whose spell no reader will be able to resist.
by Heidi Julavits
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsA raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi Julavits
by Jenny Offill
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsDept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
by Lauren Myracle
Published Aug 2014
Read ReviewsSexy, romantic, and oh-so-true to life, this is an unforgettable look at first love from one of young adult fiction's greatest writers.
by Annabel Pitcher
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsZoe has an unconventional pen pal-Mr. Stuart Harris, a Texas Death Row inmate and convicted murderer. But then again, Zoe has an unconventional story to tell. A story about how she fell for two boys, betrayed one of them, and killed the other.
by Cath Crowley
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsTold in alternating voices and filled with music, friendship, and romance, A Little Wanting Song is about the kind of longing that begins as a heavy ache but ultimately makes us feel hopeful and wonderfully alive.
by Siobhan Dowd
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsMemories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. Shes not Holly anymore, shes Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk.
by Natalie Standiford
Published Dec 2010
Read ReviewsNew to town, Beatrice is seated next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet loner who hasn't made a new friend since third grade. Something about him, though, gets to Bea, and soon they form an unexpected friendship.
by Maureen Johnson
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsEverything about Ginny will change this summer, and it's all because of the 13 Little Blue Envelopes.
by Meg Rosoff
Published Jul 2005
Read Reviews'Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything this author is capable of writing'.
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