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1221) What happens next
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Advanced picture book told through first-person narrative and graphic novel style panels. What Happens Next is a raw, realistic story told by an unnamed protagonist who feels different from everybody else, like she doesn't quite fit in. Bullied by a girl at school, our narrator gives a terse script of the related facts and emotions. At school the next day, the narrator confronts the bully by spinning her "weirdo" obsession with science into an opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic....
Author
Series
Summer I turned pretty volume 1
Publisher
Cross Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Belly nunca ha sido la clase de chica a la que le pasan cosas. Año tras año, sus vacaciones transcurren en la casa de la playa junto a su hermano, su madre, la mejor amiga de esta y sus hijos Conrad y Jeremiah. Pero los chicos apenas se dan cuenta de lo mucho que se fija en ellos. Todos los veranos, Belly desea que eso cambie. Y, esta vez, sucedariá. Este será el verano en que Belly se volverá guapa, el verano en que todo cambiará.
1224) One last word: a novel
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sara Chae is the founder of the app One Last Word, which allows you to send a message to whomever you want after you pass. Safeguards are in place so the app will only send out when you're definitely, absolutely, 100% dead, but when another Sara Chae dies and the obituary triggers the prototype to auto-send messages that Sara uploads on one drunken night--to her emotionally charged mother, to a former best friend who ghosted her, and to her unrequited...
1225) Breakaway
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Jason Marshall's younger sister passes away, he knows he can count on his three best friends and soccer teammates--Mario, Jordie, and Chick--to be there for him. With a grief-crippled mother and a father who's not in the picture, he needs them more than ever. But when Mario starts hanging out with a rough group of friends and Jordie finally lands the girl of his dreams, Jason is left to fend for himself while maintaining a strained relationship...
Author
Series
[Songbird Inn] volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Songbird Inn has always been the perfect home. No one knows that better than the Singh sisters. Nidhi, Avani, Sirisha, and Rani have been lovestruck and heartbroken and everything in between, all at their dad's cozy bed-and-breakfast. And today the whole Singh family will support aspiring filmmaker Rani in her first film festival--if only they can make it through the windstorm ravaging the Pacific Northwest. After spending the last few months...
1227) Cross my heart: a novel
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The first man is Geoffrey--in Boston, which is Jillian's hometown. Hazel-eyed Geoffrey, the brilliant ad exec whom Jillian would've married if he hadn't stolen some of her best work and gotten her promotion as a result. The second man is Jack in Los Angeles. Insecure Jack, who signs Jillian up for a love study at a local university "just for fun" but secretly intends to find out if she still loves Geoffrey. Flaky Jack, who splits as soon as her brain...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring...
1230) Romper el círculo
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
A veces, quien más te quiere es quién más daño te hace. Lily no siempre lo ha tenido fácil. Por eso, su idílica relación con un magnífico neurocirujano llamado Ryle Kincaid, parece demasiado buena para ser verdad. Cuando Atlas, su primer amor, reaparece repentinamente y Ryle comienza a mostrar su verdadera cara, todo lo que Lily ha construido con él se ve amenazado.
"Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn't...
1231) Even if I fall
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console one another. Brooke's only solace remains the ice-skating rink, where she works but no longer lets herself dream about a future skating professionally. When Brooke encounters Calvin's younger brother, Heath, on the side of the road and offers...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
1233) This is happiness
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets...
1234) Libre
Author
Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. At least he has two people to keep him sane: his new boyfriend (he does love Linus, doesn't he?) and his best friend, Angela. But all day long, old memories and new heartaches come crashing together, throwing...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job...
Author
Series
Octagon Valley volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After passing an intense exam, Edwin Edgefield becomes one of the lucky few to attend an exclusive weekend at the mysterious high-tech institute of the uber-famous-ultrabazillionaire-genius-recluse Onasander Octagon. Edwin hopes he'll meet other kids like him--kids who will accept him even though he's got a photographic memory, genius-level math skills, and some very specific personality quirks. But when he meets the other misfits (um, students),...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Chloe Green está tan cerca de ganar. Después de que sus madres la trasladaron de SoCal a Alabama para la escuela secundaria, pasó los últimos cuatro años esquivando a los compañeros de clase chismosos y la administración puritana de Willowgrove Christian Academy. Lo que la ha mantenido en marcha: ganar el discurso de despedida. Su única rival: la reina del baile de graduación Shara Wheeler, la progenie perfecta del director. Pero un mes antes...
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