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Still reeling from a recent tragedy, Erin Connolly knows she needs to start living, but has no idea how. When she accidentally donates her favorite book--a heavily annotated copy of To Kill a Mockingbird containing a memento she can't be without--to a local little community library, she's devastated. But then the book turns up a week later, back in the library with fresh notes in the margins, along with an invitation in a copy of Great Expectations...

"From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who "is so good it isn't fair" (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears. I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret. 1954: When her former novice's dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her...

Pen pals Tulsi and Vanessa discover that even though life in their countries--Tanzania and America--is very different, they still have a lot in common.

"Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed"-- Provided by publisher.

"Hart Ralston is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the wasteland of Tanria, hunting for drudges. It's an unforgiving job, and Hart's got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Mercy Birdsall never has a moment to herself. She's been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat - despite definitely not being a son - in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart Ralston, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest....

"In this funny and poignant novel, two strangers learn that their soul mate might be both as close as breath and as distant as a star, from British Fantasy Award recipient Sarah Lotz. Bee thinks she has everything: a successful business repurposing wedding dresses, and friends who love and support her. She's given up on finding love, but that's fine. There's always Tinder. Nick thinks he has nothing: his writing career has stalled after early promise...

After the death of a soldier, his best friend Beckett receives a final letter asking him to leave the army and travel to Telluride to help the soldier's sister, Ella, who is struggling to raise twins on her own. Grieving multiple family losses, Ella faces new challenges that threaten to tear her family apart. Beckett's arrival offers the possibility of healing, hope, and connection as both try to move forward from tragedy.

"In elementary school, Chloe Hanako Quinn is assigned Oliver Jones as her pen pal partner. Before sending her letter, she also whispers a note into it ... and he hears her. Little does she know it would be the beginning of a friendship that would bloom into something more. That is, until disaster strikes, and Oliver and his family disappear without a trace. Now over twenty years later, Chloe is a high school guidance counselor in New York City. But...

Olive wants her best friend, Molly, to know she isn't a liar--except for that one time she lied to make Molly think she was cool. This is the story of that one time.

"Eleanor Wright is at the top of her game. She's the best compositor in London, something of which she is exceedingly proud, and in high demand by every newspaper and printing press in town. She's finally tracked down a long-lost book, and it will be hers for the small price to pay of a season's work as the companion to a countess. And then there's her pen pal who she is maybe, possibly in love with... Peter Montgomery, Duke of Strafford, finally...