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Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas -- the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter -- a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When Duncan shows up as her new boss, though, he's nothing like the sweet teacher she once swooned over. He's become stiff, and humorless, and obsessed with school safety. Now, with Duncan determined to destroy everything Sam loves about her school in the name of security -- and turn it into nothing short of a prison -- Sam has to stand up for everyone she cares about before the school that's become her home is gone for good.



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Katherine Center

Katherine Center's new novel is WHAT YOU WISH FOR. She's the author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire--both instant New York Times bestsellers--as well as The Lost Husband (now a movie starring Josh Duhamel) , and five other bittersweet comic novels. She writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down--and how we get back up. Katherine has been compared to both Nora Ephron and Jane Austen, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, "satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way." Her books have made countless Best-Of lists, including Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2019, ' Best Books of the Year 2019, BookBub's Best-Loved Books of 2019, the Indie Next Great Reads List, SheReads' Best Women's Fiction 2019, BookList's Top Ten Women's Fiction, and many, many more. Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two kids, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.



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