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From debut author Anna Adams, this delightful YA romcom is all about finding yourself, your family, and perfect harmony in the big city.
A FRENCH GIRL IN NEW YORK
A French Girl in New York by Anna Adams
Raised in a small town in France, Maude Laurent has always wondered about her parents—who they were and what happened to them.
When she’s livestreamed singing in a café in Paris, she suddenly becomes an internet sensation and music studios are pursuing her with promises of stardom. The only problem? They all want her to sing pop, Maude loves to sing opera…
But Maude accepts the challenge: six months in New York to write and record three singles that become hits. If she succeeds, she can stay and record an album. If she doesn’t, she’ll return to France.
Maude knows she has the talent to succeed. However, there’s one big problem—her collaborator Matt Durand. He’s cute, annoying and arrogant, a popstar on a break, and he’s determined to force Maude out of her comfort zone.
With rival artists determined to see Maude fail and the clock ticking, can Maude and Matt put their bickering aside to find the perfect harmony?
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Wattpad Books | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
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A small Southern town. An ordinary Saturday night. A little boy disappears without a trace.
EVERY MOMENT SINCE
Every Moment Since by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, “All at the very same time!” Knows the Marty McFly jacket his mother made for his birthday that he wore proudly, and often. But no one knows what happened to him the night he went missing more than twenty years ago.
When the jacket is unexpectedly uncovered, the cold case reopens, and Davy’s family is thrust into yet another media storm. But at the heart of the story are four people forever changed by one single night: Thaddeus Malcor, Davy’s older brother, created the life of his dreams by writing a bestselling memoir about his family’s experience and is enjoying success and notoriety as a result, even if the memoir doesn’t quite reveal the whole story. Tabitha Malcor, his mother, is divorced and living alone, advocating for victims’ rights and faithfully cataloging her regrets each week, never including her biggest regret of all. Anissa Weaver was just a kid herself when Davy went missing, and her connection to him is one she cannot reveal as she serves as the Malcor family’s Public Information Officer. And, long suspected in Davy’s disappearance, Gordon Swift has kept his head down and scraped together a decent life. But the new attention to the case makes it impossible to hide from the public, and the past.
With hauntingly vivid prose, Marybeth Mayhew Whalen peels back the curtain on the inner turmoil of those who were left behind in the small Southern community as they pick up the pieces that remain and press forward into the light to find hope and healing.
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“A lyrical, radiant memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
LIFESCAPES
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann Wroe
Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and through people she has known, studied, or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after in this breathtaking combination of poetry, memoir, and observation.
‘What is life?’ asked the poet Shelley, and he could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not answered that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is.
In this dazzlingly original blend of poetry, biography, observation, and memoir, Wroe explores the experience of trying to capture the essence of a person. Animated by her rare imagination, eye for the telling detail, and the wit, beauty and clarity of her writing, Lifescapes is a luminous, deeply personal answer to Shelley’s question.
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Faith Gateway | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
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