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For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic. Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secretis finally revealed.
6) Final word
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Series
Winterton deception volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2023.
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xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they havenever known."--
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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When twelve-year-old Yara finds a strange set of instructions left behind by her deceased mother, she starts on a journey to discover the truth about her mother's past and her true identity.
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
10) Cobweb
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall, a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his parents could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
608 pages ; 24 cm
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"(S0(B Que nos quedaba?: El fascismo aleman o el fascismo espanol... A eso se reducia la oferta poliitica de los anos treinta. Y la democracia? adios a la Republica espanola: trendriamos que escoger entre dos dictaduras, con todas sus consecuencias...(S1(B Ante la inesperada confesion de un secreto celosamente guardado, se desata la poderosa necesidad por descubrir las raices e historias de dos familias separadas por la religion, la georgrafia, el...
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"A sweeping and gorgeously rendered exploration of grief and yearning, following the fracturing of an multinational family in the wake of its patriarch's death. In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, devouring Grenfell Tower and the makeshift lives it houses-those of London's immigrants, its refugees, its working class. At the same time across town, another spark...
13) 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...
14) Daughter
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is kidnapped and joins a strange family as their new surrogate daughter.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
260 pages, 22cm
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The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling conundrum: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windowsat two little girls. They are the grandchildren she's never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years. At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman's quest to understand how a...
16) La institutriz
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Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2021.
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394 pages ; 24 cm
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A governess returns to work for a family she has a close and complicated relationship with and the secrets she's been hiding threaten to come to light.
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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311 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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When Eden Smith moves into the bizarre old mansion housing her grandfather, Vulcan Smith, she discovers a strange society of metalworkers whose mastery verges on the magical, and when her grandfather is punished for rebelling against the guild, Eden must complete a series of deadly feats to save him.
18) Wonderland
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 19 cm
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By day, Wonderland is a magical amusement park boasting a certain retro charm. Excited children, hands sticky with cotton candy, run frenetically from ride to ride while the tinkling music of the oldest Ferris wheel in the Pacific Northwest fills the air. But behind the scenes, the rides need repairs, and the clown museum is filled with a lot more than just wax figures. Someone is working hard to keep the park’s dark secrets hidden beneath its weathered...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegr's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. The shocking return sends her widowed...
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
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487 pages ; 23 cm
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While recovering from a heart transplant, first-year medical resident Cora Merlo gets an invitation from the enigmatic mother of the heart donor, Charles, to visit his home, a place full of secrets--some of them decades old--in an isolated town where a little girl disappears on the very day Cora arrives.
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