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Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Description
"No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living...
2) Past perfect
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Language
English
Description
What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
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Language
English
Description
"Three girls go into the woods, but only one comes out... Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something-or someone. He and his wife, Carrie, recently moved back to Clear River to help take care of her ailing father, and after a tragedy at his previous job, this move is their last chance at a new life. Now, standing in the downpour on this Texas road, Luke, an off-duty cop, has a decision to make-and he has to make it fast....
4) Haunt me
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to a new house, Erin encounters the spirit of the teenage boy, Joe, who used to live there and meets Olly, who is still trying to adjust to his brother Joe's death, at her new school.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
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Language
English
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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English
Description
"Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's not just Morgan's death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night....
10) November 9
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Language
English
Description
"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships...
11) Jakarta missing
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Language
English
Description
When her sister, star-athlete Jakarta, finally joins them, Dakar feels much safer and happier in Cottonwood, North Dakota, where she and their parents are living for a year, but she still longs for their home in Africa.
12) Between friends
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Publication Date
c1978
Physical Desc
160 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
She's younger than Babar, shyer than Lily, and every bit as cute as Olivia. Look out! Here's ELLA!Ella's counting the days until the first day of school ... but not because she's eager to start! On the contrary, as the littlest elephant on Elephant Island, she's terribly nervous about the other kids she'll meet. Then she receives a beautiful red hat that belonged to her grandmother — her new lucky charm. Big mean Belinda at school teases...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sam, aged seven and three quarters, gives her expert advice on moving, from making box forts and packing your little brother to picking the best bedroom and hunting for monsters.
16) Lucky break
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Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
Eliza always had a well-planned life, until her engagement falls apart. At thirty-two, she is second-guessing her picture-perfect future. Ready for a new start, she decides to leave San Francisco and move to a picturesque small Midwestern town. There she finds that the friendly Midwesterners are keeping a marvelous secret that will help her build her own new future.
17) Lenny & Lucy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about moving to a new house and making new friends"-- Provided by publisher.
18) Bandit
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Bandit's family moves to a new house, the cat runs away and returns to the only home he knows, but after he is brought back, he understands that the new house is now home.
19) The wing shop
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Date
c1991
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his family moves to a different part of town, Matthew tries to get back to his old house by trying on different pairs of wings in an unusual wing shop.
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Publication Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The tornado that devastated Kings' Orchard pushed Rhoda, Samuel, and Jacob to make a new start in Maine. Are they strong enough to withstand the challenges of establishing an Amish community -- and brave enough to face the secrets that move with them?








