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1) Project F
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Several hundred years in the future, in a world where fossil fuels are no longer used as a power source, a thirteen-year-old boy named Keith joins a jet pack project that will give people the ability to fly.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Stunned by her recently widowed father's reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world--where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all. Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She's met the love of her life, and they're getting married with a baby on the way. That's the moment her father makes his own jas-dropping announcement: at sixty, he's getting married as...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
After North Carolinas richest and most notorious heiress dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance until 10 years later, when his uncle's death pulls him and his wife back into the family fold at Ashby House where he realizes the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.
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Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
8) Sleepytime
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"It's sleepytime at the Heeler house! Bingo wants to do a Big Girl sleep. As she drifts away into a dreamy adventure with Flopsy, will Bingo make it through the night and wake up in her own bed?" --
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"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to followher grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told in two voices, when half-siblings Samira and Henry discover each other they join forces to find their absent father, uncovering the complexities of truth and the lasting impact of withheld family information.
12) Lazos de sangre
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
Author
Series
Garrett Kohl volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"In this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise threatens his family"--
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After her mother's death, teen Harlow pieces together the truth of her family's past and what her mom was hiding from.
Harlow Ford and her mother have spent years running, hiding from a presence that Harlow isn't even sure is real. In each new place Harlow takes on a new name and personality, and each time they run, she leaves another piece of herself behind. Fatally wounded in a car accident, her mother tells Harlow two things: where to find the...
18) Mercury
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Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
Arriving in Mercury, Pennsylvania, in 1990, gorgeous teenager and perpetual loner Marley West marries one of the Joseph brothers and tries to lead this family of roofers to stability in this hardworking, blue-collar town by helping them escape their unwieldy fathers shadow.
19) Leaving: a novel
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Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she is separated from her mother.
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