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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
4) Final word
Author
Series
Winterton deception volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"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."--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could turn back time to mend her friendship with Francie after a terrible fight, so when Lou befriends Cece she is eager to prove herself, but as she uncovers the truth about Cece's family, she grapples with what being a good friend means.
Author
Series
Blood and moonlight volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Posing as husband and wife, Cat takes desperate steps to keep Simon safe, but when he is recruited to profile a killer, she finds herself pulled back into a world of murder, mayhem, and magic.
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
Infinity alchemist volume 1
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
385 pages : color illustration, map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic--so when Ash is rejected by Lancaster College of Alchemic Science, he takes a job as the school's groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he's discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested--but instead of calling the reds, Ramsay surprises Ash by making him an offer: Ramsay will keep Ash's secret...
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Description
"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) Twisted love
Author
Series
Twisted (Ana Huang) volume 1
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Description
Aunque Ava Chen y Alex Volkov se conocen desde hace años, él siempre se ha mostrado distante y frío. Pero ahora que el hermano de Ava se ha ido y lo ha dejado encargado de la protección de ella, Alex parece algo menos indiferente.… Y su relación, poco a poco, se va haciendo más estrecha, hasta que llegan a confiarse sus secretos y traumas más profundos… A ella, su madre intentó ahogarla en un arrebato de locura; mientras que Alex presenció...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
608 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"(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...
12) Misfit mansion
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A spooky-sweet graphic novel about a monster girl who sneaks into a human town to find a family for herself and her mythical housemates, only to unravel long-kept secrets"--
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Description
"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...
15) Un lugar para mi
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Kiwi
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Description
"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
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...
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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When she wishes her baby brother Owen away to the Lord of the Wood, shame-filled Leah makes a deal with the devilish Lord to bring Owen back, a bargain that unearths her town's secrets, making her question everything she's been taught to fear"--
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