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Series
Chicago Stars volume 10
Description
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
58, 86 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Originally seeing Oggy the ogre, who has moved into the house on the hill, as a nuisance, Princess Pru realizes he is just lonely and, with courage and spunk, arrives on his doorstep to extend her friendship.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
Mouse and Giraffe are neighbors, but because of their relative sizes, their experiences are very different, so they usually disagree; however, when Mouse catches cold, they find something they both agree on.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
6) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
"A picture book about a surreptitious spider who gathers the courage to help the neighbors she has watched over from afar--a promising painter, a proper little lady, a mindful young man, a brave girl and her exceptionally brave tortoise"--
7) Evergreen
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Description
"All seventeen-year-old Quill wants is a break from the family business. Flowers, plants, the generations-old garden. What he wouldn't give for a taste of the outside world. Normalcy. But his mom won't let him out of the house, telling him he's just not read ... All because he's a dryad. Well, not just any dryad, but a male dryad - the first ever. And unlike everyone else in his family, he hasn't a lick of magic. Just a shock of green hair, matching...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Shermy finds his plans for a quiet, relaxing summer upended by the arrival of Shake, who moves in next door, and as they are forced to spend more and more time together, these polar opposites must learn how to get along.
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Formats
Description
Mia is spending her summer with her grandmother in a small Maine town, expecting it to be an oasis of stability in her changing life, but there is a new know-it-all boy next door, and soon she finds herself competing with Cayman in identifying an injuredbird of prey--and pretty much everything else.
Author
Series
The apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
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Description
Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
Author
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is old Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
242 pages (large print); 24 cm
Description
Still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit lost its mind. Some historians believe the mysterious illness and violent hallucinations were caused by spoiled bread; others claim it was the result of covert government testing on the local population. In that town lived a woman named Elodie. She was the baker's wife: a plain, unremarkable person who yearned to transcend her dull existence....
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Dos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta. Todo puede suceder durante un verano. January Andrews es escritora de novelas romanticas y una sonadora empedernida. August Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es solo un cuento chino. Pero January y Gus tienen mucho mas en comun de lo que creen: Los dos estan arruinados. Los dos estan bloqueados. Y los dos necesitan escribir un bestseller antes de que termine el verano.
14) Flappy se atreve
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens, and organising unforgettable events,surrounded by friends who don't miss a thing she says. Her life is a reflection of herself. She is extremely perfect. Until the day Hedda Harvey-Smith and her husband Charles move into town, into a...
15) Desde mi ventana
Author
Series
Serie Juntos y revueltos volume 2
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
462 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
"What is the sexual orientation of Oscar Casanovas, the new tenant of apartment 4th, and why does he seem to enjoy confusing the neighbors about this? That's the newest doubt that anguishes the members of the community at Cortazar St. Especially, shy Eli, who secretly fantasizes about Casanovas as much as the window through which she spies on him allows it. Although it's obvious that he would never notice her, whether he's gay or not, Eli still doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Who wouldn't want to live in Brighton Hills? This exclusive community on the Oregon coast is the perfect mix of luxury and natural beauty. Stunning houses nestle beneath mighty Douglas firs, and lush backyards roll down to the lakefront. It's the kind of place where neighbors look out for one another. Sometimes a little too closely. Cora thinks her husband, Finn, is cheating. She just needs to catch him in the act. That's where Paige comes in. Paige...
17) Underdog city
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Mortimer Bray is not okay. It seems like everything in his life is changing for the worse. After his own much-loved dog dies, he can't bring himself to carry on with his dog-walking business; there's a strange new girl who's moved into the house next door; and suddenly there's a buzzing feeling of anxiety in his head and heart when he's faced with something new. His neighborhood, Townsend Heights, used to feel like the most comfortable place in the...
18) Extra normal
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Charlie Greer is nothing special--at least not compared to her adopted siblings. Her younger sister is a ghost. Her brother Mateo is a werewolf. Gideon is the product of seriously sketchy experiments that gave him telekinetic powers. Even her parents work for the Division of Extranormal Investigations tracking down all things supernatural, alien, and otherwise unusual. Charlie's mom says her superpower is maturity--which doesn't really count. But...
19) Twisted lies
Author
Series
Twisted (Ana Huang) volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
553 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal...
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Description
" Liz Buxbaum siempre ha sabido que Wes Bennett, su vecino, no tiene madera de novio. Podr�ia parecer que es el candidato perfecto para sus fantas�ias rom�anticas, pero lo cierto es que Wes solo ha demostrado ser un aut�entico incordio desde que eran ni�nos. Wes fue quien puso una rana en su casa de mu�necas y el monstruito que escondi�o la cabeza decapitada de un gnomo de jard�in en su peque�no intercambio de libros vecinal. Diez...
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