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2008, c2007., Soho Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Luke, a seventeen-year-old from a small Michigan town, embarks on a personal struggle with spirituality, love, and responsibility after foretelling a friend's death.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Sky Pony Press Call No: FIC MOODY Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Although he yearns to be a Healer, Ian Fossor must follow family tradition and help the spirits of the dead find peace in the Beyond, but when Weavers threaten he finds his rightful place.
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2009., Scribner Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Scribner hardco Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twenty-year-old twins Valentina and Julia Poole inherit their aunt Elspeth Noblin's London apartment and travel from Chicago to England where they become caught up in the lives of their neighbors, including Martin, a crossword-puzzle setter with obsessive compulsive disorder, his devoted wife Marijke, and Elspeth's lover Robert, as well as the ghosts of the vast Highgate Cemetery next to the building.
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[2020]., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F TEM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother--a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial--Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as 'Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls.' Soon, she finds herself drawn into the company of a close-knit trio of girls determined to transcend their circumstances, by any means necessary. Led by the elusive and beautiful Serena, and her aloof, secretive acolytes, Janet and Laurel, the girls decide this is the summer they will finally achieve enlightenment--and learn to levitate, to defy the weight of their bodies, to experience ultimate lightness. But as desire and danger intertwine, and Olivia comes ever closer to discovering what a body--and a girl--is capable of, it becomes increasingly clear that this is an advanced and perilous practice, and there's a chance not all of them will survive. Set over the course of one fateful summer that unfolds like a fever dream, The Lightness juxtaposes fairy tales with quantum physics, cognitive science with religious fervor, and the passions and obsessions of youth with all of these, to explore concepts as complex as faith and as simple as loving people--even though you don't, and can't, know them at all"--From the publisher's web site.
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2006., Penguin Books Call No: ROMANCE F KID Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island-- amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks--she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right.
