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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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312 pages ; 24 cm
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Dr. Tamsin Rivers, when a door opens in her basement to reveal an exact copy of her, one that’s sweet and biddable where she’s calculating and cruel, must hold herself together long enough to figure out what the double wants from her—and where the mysterious door leads.
3) Cada día
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B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2023.
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294 pages ; 20 cm
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Cada mañana, A despierta en el cuerpo y la vida de una persona diferente. Nunca hay aviso previo de dónde ocurriá o quién será el elegido. Pero A ya se ha hecho a la idea de ello, incluso tiene una serie de normas que sigue para vivir: nunca involucrarse. Pasar desapercibido. No interferir. Todo está bien hasta la mañana en la que A se despierta en el cuerpo de Justin y conoce a la novia de este, Rihannon. A partir de ese momento, las normas...
4) Say my name
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Six people from different corners of the world celebrate the history, culture, and beauty behind their names.
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"In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examineher ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"--
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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265 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Las ficciones tragicomicas reunidas en este libro tienen un comun denominador: la irrupcion de una voluntad avasalladora en las vidas de hombres y mujeres vulnerables que renacen o se desmoronan bajo el influjo de sus fantasmas. En que se transforman los seres proclives a dejarse invadir, ya sea en la entrega amorosa, en la idolatria, o en la sumision a un artifice traicionero? Siete cuentos de humor negro relatan ese apocalipsis intimo desde el...
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Narrativa, Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023.
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430 pages ; 23 cm
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La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informatico en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnologica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
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370 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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When Atia, a monster hunted by the Gods, and mortal Silas join forces to avenge her family and break his curse and restore his humanity, they discover that only together can they finally rewrite their destinies.
10) Beach dilemma
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One Elm Books is an imprint of Red Chair Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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66 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"Even though her family calls her Emma Bemma, Emma knows she is really just Medium. That's because she's the middle kid between her two brothers, who everyone calls Big and Little. Big thinks he's the coolest kid on the planet now that he's 10. And everyone thinks Little is just adorable even when he picks his nose and eats it! What if she could get out of being the middle by taking on a new role? What if she acted big? Or even bigger than that?"--Provided...
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"Maya lives and breathes musicals. When her chance to finally be a part of the summer musical program at the community theater comes up, Maya is convinced she will get the lead. After all, who knows The Drowsy Chaperone better than she does? However, things don't turn out exactly the way Maya's planned, and the summer turns out to be jam-packed with problems: dealing with her best friend's move, her parents' busy jobs, and—since her autism...
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Seis Barral (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
2023.
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788 pages. ; 24 cm
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¿C̤mo llegamos a conocernos? ¿Qǔ significan los otros en nuestras vidas? Asle, un pintor viudo que vive solo en un fiordo noruego, observa su vida entera con la mirada fija en el flujo del mar. No se trata de la nostalgia de un recuerdo, se trata de una observaci̤n meticulosa que busca d̤nde ha fallado.Ha sufrido la adicci̤n, la incomprensi̤n de una sociedad cerrada y su propia oscuridad como artista pero es el amor hacia Ales lo que le obliga...
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011.
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470 pages ; 20 cm
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Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.
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Dreamer trilogy volume 2
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Fandom Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 23 cm.
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Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde are dreamers; Ronan's dreams always seem to end in random destruction, using up the power of the ley lines he cannot even sense; Hennessy makes multiple copies of herself, dreaming them into reality in search of her own fragile identity, and Bryde dreams of power and reordering his companions and the world to his own specifications; their families and duplicates are the collateral damage of their dreams--and meanwhile they...
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Sami loves to speak both English and Spanish. But he doesn't just speak them one at a time. He speaks in Spanglish! Sometimes, he makes brand-new words—like 'lonche'—and sometimes, he puts the languages together in one sentence, like when he's hungry for jamberguers con papas fritas. But not everyone likes Spanglish. Abuela thinks that Spanish should be spoken at home and English at school. And to make matters more complicated, Sami's...
16) I'm from
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
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"Early morning wakeups and homemade pancakes, Raucous bus rides and schoolyard games, Family games and bedtime rituals... These are the small moments that shape a child's day. I'm From is an invitation into the vivid world of one small boy, a poetic account of all the people and places and things that shape who he is and define where he is from" --
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Show me a sign volume 3
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"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries'...
18) Pocho
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Vintage Espaclol, una divisicdn de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm
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Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Pena's Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions. Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy s not even on a team. Every time he gets up...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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A professor of philosophy discusses the unique place of twins in the world, including their representations in art, myth and popular culture, with illustrations by her identical twin sister.
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Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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310 pages ; 22 cm
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"The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mom that she has no idea who she really is anymore, and two, she has no idea what she wants because of it. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer, where her childhood best friend Tom and co-creator of The Getaway List--a list of all the adventures they've wanted to do together...
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