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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love-but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much...
Author
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most inventive and entertaining novel to date from "a master of the dark arts" (Kelly Link)
A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people—a couple and their child—hurry out the door, but it's too late for them. As the virtuosic and terrifying opening scene of Broken River unfolds, a spectral presence seems to be watching with cold and mysterious interest. Soon the house lies abandoned, and
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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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...
6) Lenny & Lucy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about moving to a new house and making new friends"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. When her long-time boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New...
8) Skellig
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
9) Inside out
Author
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Riley moves from the Midwest to San Francisco, her emotions aren't sure how to navigate her new town, school, and house.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . . right?) When she's rescued by a charming but eccentric bookseller...
11) The great alone
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Language
English
Description
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to move from Seattle to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future...
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Series
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love.
15) The terrible two
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local, mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
Series
Finding Alice volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Shortly after moving into their newly finished dream house, Alice's partner, Harry, dies from falling down the stairs. Harry designed the house himself, so it's weird, wonderful, and impractical, and one more disorientation for Alice to endure along with her sense of loss and abandonment. Her beloved partner of twenty years is gone, and now she can't even find the fridge. To add to her problems, Alice discovers that Harry had a habit of hiding stuff...
18) Absolutely Truly
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Truly Lovejoy's family moves to a small town to take over a bookstore. Soon, she has to solve two mysteries involving a missing book and an undelivered letter"--
19) Stuart's cape
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.
20) Just Jake
Author
Series
Just Jake volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake and his family have moved to a new state and now Jake must start at the bottom of the social ladder, but he is determined to make friends and get back on top with his box of "kid cards."