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1) Kariba: 1
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Siku has always called the Zambezi River her home. She understands the water--and strangely enough, it seems to understand her, too, bending to her will and coming to her aid in times of need. But things are changing on the river--a great dam is being built, displacing thousands of Shonga people--and things are changing in Siku, too, as her ability to manipulate water grows out of control, and visions of a great serpent pull her further from reality...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
"Astrid is training to go to space! But as she builds her shuttle, cooks astronaut food, and practices floating in zero gravity, Dad tells Astrid that the ship's construction is too dangerous, she's too little to cook alone, and she's not allowed to flood the bathroom. That night, when Astrid dreams she's an astronaut, the challenges she encounters are overwhelming. Astrid realizes she isn't as ready as she thought. Back on Earth, Astrid turns to...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
A Black mother and daughter spend each day waiting for the return of their husband/father from his job as an EMT. They manage to fill the hours, and are always so relieved when he returns safely to them, especially as they read and see on the news that some Black people do not return home.
Author
Publisher
Urano World
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 23 cm
Description
En la vispera de su cuadragesimo cumpleanos, la vida de Alice no va del todo mal. Le gusta su trabajo, aunque no sea exactamente el que habia sonado. Esta satisfecha con su apartamento, su situacion sentimental y su independencia, y adora a su mejor amiga. Pero su padre esta enfermo, y tiene la sensacion de que le falta algo. Cuando se despierta a la manana siguiente, descubre que ha retrocedido hasta 1996, y tiene la oportunidad de revivir su decimosexto...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"Liana Sarkar lives and breathes music, hoping to follow in the footsteps of her A&R coordinator father. Maybe if she succeeds, he'll finally give her the time of day instead of drowning himself in work to distract from the grief of her mother's passing. When Liana accidentally sabotages an up-and-coming local band, Third Eye, she makes it her mission to steer them towards success—without them discovering her role in their setback. But as she...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers-and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking... Selena Lucy Landry (named for a ship, as every sailor's child should be) has been frightened of the water ever since she lost her father at sea. But with no one else to care for her, she's sent to foster with the Martins-a large...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story.
11) The atlas of us
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm .
Description
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Plata
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Una joven que crece en una finca lejana y exuberante, a salvo del conflicto y las luchas de la peninsula de Yucatan. La unica hija de un investigador que es un genio o un loco... Montgomery Laughton: un capataz melancolico con un pasado tragico y propension al alcohol. Un paria que ayuda al Dr. Moreau en sus experimentos, que son financiados por los Lizalde, duenos de magnificas haciendas y arcas abundantes... Los hibridos: Los frutos del trabajo...
13) Las alumbradas
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Las hermanas Fernandez tienen distintos anhelos, pero viviran y sufriran juntas las hazanas y desventuras que conlleva encontrar el propio camino y, sobre todo, la felicidad. Guerrero, principios del siglo xx. Una tragedia cambiara para siempre el destino de la familia Fernandez. Tras la muerte de la senora Micaela y la pequena Milena, don Ismael tendra que seguir adelante con sus cuatro hijas, quienes entran en la madurez de manera forzada. Evelina,...
Author
Series
Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes...
15) Two dead wives
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Lost. Missing. Murdered? How do you find a woman who didn’t exist? It's a case that has gripped a nation: A woman with a shocking secret is missing, presumed dead. And her two husbands are suspects in her murder. DCI Clements knows the dark side of human nature and that love can make people do treacherous things. You can’t presume anything when it comes to crimes of the heart. Until a body is found, this scandalous and sad case remains...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she’s long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest—spanning from Paris to New York’s Harlem, to Havana and Key West—is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he...
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