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Pub. Date
2024.
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the...
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
609 pages ; 19 cm.
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Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of Kampala during the waning days of British colonial rule....
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Chronicles of Castellane volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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"In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
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"Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That's what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed,Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies...He is found--near feral, silent, and terrified--in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two adopted...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime - and long-distance - crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back ito her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong years ago, and never replied to any of Elsie's letters...
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"For fans of Matt Haig and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a big-hearted novel following a man who can never be remembered and his journey to become unforgettable... On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs. That's because Tommy is a boy destined to never...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
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Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and big bank accounts. But Phoenix doesn’t want big; she just wants home. The trouble is, she doesn’t know where that is…until the Hong Kong protest movement unfolds, and she learns the city she’s come to love is in danger of disappearing. Seventeen-year-old...
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 21 cm
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"Para Édgar, las cicatrices del pasado siguen latiendo con fuerza. A pesar de los años y de que ahora vive en la Ciudad de México, el recuerdo de su exnovio Jorge se mantiene presente, por lo que lucha constantemente por eludir la tragedia de su muerte y el sentimiento de abandono que lo atormenta. Cuando su abuela enferma y se ve obligado a regresar a Monterrey, su antiguo hogar, Édgar se reencuentra con sus mejores amigos Santiago y Samanta,...
10) Un lugar para mi
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Ediciones Kiwi
Pub. Date
2018.
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431 pages ; 23 cm
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"Mi padre abre el sobre lentamente y mama se inclina sobre su hombro. Ambos guardan silencion mientras leen la carta. Espero que my padre se levante de la silla y me abrace, que mi madre grite y empiece a llamar a mis tias para presumir de mi. Pero ninguno de los dos dice nada. En realidad me miran como si acabaran de recibir la peor noticia de su vida en lugar de la mejor. Vale, puede ser que esten tan sorprendidos que se han quedado sin palabras?"--Page...
12) Songs of Irie
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Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
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"It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain safe behind gates. But the two bond through a shared love...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound...
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In 1959 Montana, when a fatal car accident shatters his world, 10-year-old Lucas finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up during the Space Race, the brutal racism of segregation and the hopeof a new generation to move us forward.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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373 pages ; 22 cm
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"It's 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different. Shy and awkward, she has trouble fitting in at her new school, she's still reeling from her parents' divorce, and her grandmother Katherine's Alzheimer's is getting worse. So when Gracie finds a blank journal in Katherine's vanity drawer, she begins writing stories about herself--a more popular version of herself, that is. But then the hot guy in her art class describes...
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Macmillan Children's Books, of Pan Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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"Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection Nikita gives you the words to help heal from your first breakup, to celebrate finding your family, to understand first love, to express your anger and your joy, to fight for what you believe in and to help you break some rules to be your truest self." --Publisher.
17) Hula: a novel
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Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
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A young daughter of the legendary Hawaiian Naupaka dynasty dreams of healing the rift in her family by competing in and winning the next Miss Aloha Hula contest and proving herself worthy of carrying on her family's name.
18) Trajectory
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
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Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
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SHAINDY is a twelve-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who struggles in school and has no good friends. She watches with envy as her next-door neighbor, GAYIL, excels socially and academically. They have little to do with each other, and it comes as a surprise when Shaindy looks out her window one September evening and sees Gayil staring out at her from her own window with a sign reading want to know a secret? The secret (at first) is that Gayil has a...
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