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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladislavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric M�aori-Russian-Catalonian...
Author
Series
Sweet Valley twins (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
200 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
In her struggle to protect her best friend from getting hurt, Elizabeth finds herself torn between Amy, who is determined to join the Unicorn Club's cheering squad, and her twin sister Jessica, who is one of the Unicorns who do not want Amy on the team.
7) Western lane
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 20 cm
Description
After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
Gopi has been playing squash since she was a small child. After the death of her mother, she is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father. Soon...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher. Asher is not who the world believes he is. Despite his royal blood, he has...
Author
Series
Ill-mannered ladies volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
583 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The OffenbachArchival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"Once upon a time, the Peacock sisters were little girls who combed each other's tangled hair. But decades of secrets have led them to separate lives - and to telling lies, to themselves and to one another. Sylvie is getting married. Again. A librarian and widow who soothes her grief by escaping into books (and shelving them perfectly), Sylvie has caught the attention of an unlikely match: Simon Rampling, a mysterious, wealthy man from Northern England....
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civilwar ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after...
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