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Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
agosto de 2022.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Cuando la minera canadiense Inuit Mining Corporation descubre uno de los yacimientos de litio más grandes del mundo en una pequeña localidad de Sonora, Ana Ochoa y otros pobladores serán presionados para vender sus tierras a precios irrisorios. Con la complicidad de autoridades locales y la participación del narcotráfico, los empresarios canadienses harán todo lo que sea necesario para conseguir el control del llamado oro blanco. Este brutal...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
noviembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
124 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Cuatro amigos. Última noche del año. Los adolescentes Liv, Martina, Max y Anton, amigos desde la infancia, están ansiosos por celebrar esta Nochevieja juntos divirtiéndose, bebiendo y coqueteando, mientras espían a sus padres en la casa de al lado. Cuatro secretos. Hay que arriesgarse y transgredir las reglas. Cuando empiezan a jugar, primero al Monopoly, después a «verdad o reto», la fiesta sube de tono. No tardarán en descubrir que detrás...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Description
"In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private...
Author
Publisher
Rockport Publishers, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
212 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
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Description
"Alex must balance becoming a superhero tasked with defeating Kaiju, making it as a journalism student, and navigating life as a gay man in modern Europe. Nine years after a mysterious ecological disaster, journalism students Alex and Rosalia investigate the strange company that rebuilt their city and turned it into a vision of the future—that is, until Alex's world is turned upside down by a chance encounter with a gigantic monster from another...
Author
Publisher
Forum Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxv, 252 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless-and how we can fight back-from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread. Over the past two generations, U.S. leaders deregulated big business on the faith that it would yield a better economy and a freer society. But the opposite happened. Americans lost stable, well-paying jobs, Wall Street dominated industry...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"La noticia de una tragedia hace añicos la tranquila vida de Gil como profesor de Escritura Creativa en un pequeño pueblo de Vermont. Su hermana y su cuñado han muerto en un violento accidente de tráfico y él se ve obligado a adoptar a su sobrino Matthew, un joven en apariencia encantador y dulce, aunque no parece estar afectar por la muerte de sus padres. Lo que en un inicio es un acto de amor, pronto se convertirá en la peor pesadilla para...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did NOT expect to : 1. Nearly be fried by a superhero who turned out to be a supervillain ; 2. Come face to face with Jin, the handsome boy of her dreams ; 3. Discover a conspiracy involving an evil corporation that she made up. And it's all happening in her fictional webcomic world. Mina is trapped in the story she created. Now it's up to her to save everyone. Even if it means losing Jin...
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