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Twins Justine and Perry have left their home in Australia and embarked on the road trip of a lifetime in the Pacific Northwest. It's been a year since their dad lost his battle with cancer and Justine became the sole caregiver for her autistic brother, Perry. Now Perry has been accepted into an assisted-living residence in their hometown, Brisbane, Australia, but before he takes up residence, they're seeking to create the perfect memory. For Perry,...
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May is Older Americans Month (SCPL)
Mom's the Word: Mothers in Fiction (SCPL)
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Titles for, by & About Older Adults
Mom's the Word: Mothers in Fiction (SCPL)
Senior Citizens Day (WPL-ADULT)
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"Kathleen is eighty years old. After she has a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. But she's not having any of it ... Martha is having a quarter-life crisis. Unemployed, unloved and uninspired, she just can't get her life together ... When Martha sees Kathleen's advertisement for a driver and companion to share an epic road trip across America with, she decides this job might be the answer to her prayers...
83) Beautiful
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"Featuring the entire BEAUTIFUL series cast for one final hurrah! A FREE-SPIRITED GIRL IN NEED OF A BREAK. A MAN WEIGHED DOWN BY RESPONSIBILITY. A ROAD TRIP VACATION WHERE ALL BETS ARE OFF. OH, AND A LOT OF WINE. After walking in on her boyfriend shagging another girl in their place, Pippa Bay Cox ditches London for the States to go on a drunken road trip with Ruby Miller and some of her Beautiful friends. Scaling the career ladder is the default...
84) Coyote dream
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Contemporary author Jessica Davis Stein pens a moving, thoughtful story of two people from different worlds coming together in the beauty of the American Southwest. When Sarah's car stalls, Ben comes to her aid. Offering her a place to stay, if only for a short time, Ben soon finds himself falling into a passionate tryst with Sarah.
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Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It's going to be quite an adventure. The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala, and religious but closeted Umar. But when a scandalous photo of Ghaz appears on a billboard in Times Square, Mariam and Umar come up with...
87) Off course
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On an eventful road trip down the Coastal Highway, future video game designer Livi prepares for a college interview and her twin sister, Nora, works on getting into film school.
88) Let it snow
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"After the end of a relationship, local weather girl Bea Armstrong has been avoiding her family. But with Christmas approaching, she is heading home to Charis House, the school in Sherwood Forest that her parents run. And to top it all, the insufferable Henry Fairfax -- who her folks have always wanted her to marry -- has also been invited. Relief comes in the shape of an interview for her dream job. There are just a few problems. The interview is...
89) Copyboy
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Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. But the journey will not be a simple one. Victor will confront a strange and threatening world that puts his abilities and confidence to the test. He meets a girl named Philomene, and together they may meet the challenge-- if they can evade Hurricane Betsy. -- adapted from goodreads.com info.
90) VenCo: a novel
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HPL Native American Heritage Month 2023
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HPL Native American Heritage Month 2023
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"An incredibly inventive, highly anticipated second adult novel--with witches, magic, and a road trip through America--from Cherie Dimaline, the critically acclaimed author of Empire of Wild"--
Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to...
91) 806: a novel
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KT, sixteen, learns that her father was Donor 806, discovers two half-brothers, and travels with them from Missouri to California to meet their biological father, redefining their notions of "family" along the way.
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Fat Angie volume 2
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Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her only friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up a vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie...
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Leo's grandfather died a year ago, and ever since Leo has been tasked with tracking his grandmother down whenever she wanders away from their home in Allentown, Pennsylvania--but when she abruptly decides to take the trip to Utah that her husband was planning, Leo finds himself on the way to visit dinosaurs, in an old Buick with his grandmother, his seventeen-year-old cousin Abby, and Abby's old, smelly Golden retriever, Kermit, without telling his...
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"Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and...
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These no-longer-newlyweds want out of this road trip-and their marriage. Too bad they can't find the off ramp. Mallory and Connor Duncan can't even agree on how to end their marriage. Weeks away from their one-year wedding anniversary, the couple is ready to call it quits. But when a last-minute crisis lands them on a 3,000-mile road trip together, Mallory wonders if their story may not be over after all. The trip begins to unravel before the key...
96) Heat wave
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A road trip to the summer's hottest music festival does not go as planned for Marissa, Ben, and T when car troubles threaten to leave them stranded on the side of the road in the middle of the desert.
97) Genesis Road
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Glenna Daniels faces a midlife cul-de-sac. She bears a recent miscarriage and third divorce the way her Appalachian parents taught her to cope with tragedy--in stoic secrecy. She quits her social work position in Knoxville and runs away from home at the age of thirty-six, heading west with childhood friend, Carey, a gay professor in Atlanta. During their years in school, Glenna protected him from bullies. Now Carey is her savvy guide as she tries...
98) Inked devotion
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Montgomery Ink Fort Collins volume 3
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Brenna Garrett needs time to think about a major decisions, but finds herself bringing Benjamin Montgomery with her. The problem? He's her best friend's twin, so there's no escaping that familiar face. Benjamin didn't want to leave his family in a lurch, but Brenna isn't the only one who needs a break. Only a drunken mistake leads to a night of passion with unintended consequences. When it turns out they can't walk away, they'll have to make a choice:...
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"One woman's journey home to Little Springs, Texas, gets derailed by her soon-to-be-ex-mother-in-law, who insist on joining her, and she must find a way to believe in the strength of her dreams in a novel filled with humor, small-town charm, rekindled love, and the resilient ties of family"--
Cast aside by her cheating husband, Katelyn Chandler is ready to pack it all in and drive home to Little Springs, Texas. She wants a chance to regroup, reconnect...
100) We are the ghosts
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When Ellie's estranged brother, Luke, dies in a car accident, she's not sure whether to be devastated that she lost the person who was once her best friend or enraged, still, that he left without a word a year ago. Now, the only people who seem to understand what she's going through are Luke's best friend and his ex-girlfriend, who she bonds with over their desire to figure out where Luke went when he walked out of their lives. As she gets closer...
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