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1) La promesa
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
113 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Una mujer se inclina sobre la baranda de un transatlantico para recoger un broche y cae accidentalmente por la borda. Mientras el barco se aleja, hace una promesa a Santa Rita, la "abogada de lo imposible": si logra salvarse, escribira la historia de su vida. Personas y lugares desfilan ante sus ojos formando un "diccionario de recuerdos" a menudo crueles o perturbadores, mientras el mar la rodea con toda su furia. Poco a poco, la imaginacion de...
2) Swarm
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"On a sunny September morning, the creatures first appear. Shur sees one of them hovering outside the window in history class: it looks like a giant butterfly, at first too beautiful and strange to seem like a threat. But when emergency alerts light up everyone's phones around her, she realizes something very, very wrong is happening outside. These... things are everywhere. By the time Shur makes it back to her house with her brother, Keene, and their...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Description
"Two years after her parents' surprising and painful split, twelve-year-old Jo and her mom find themselves on the 100-mile hike on the Superior Hiking Trail along Lake Superior's north shore--a journey that Jo had always looked forward to hiking with her dad. It's not a situation that either of them ever predicted they'd find themselves in, yet here they are in the wilderness with their entire lives stuffed into a pair of thirty-pound packs. Along...
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Description
Lily needs a ride--a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It's getting tense in the car, and it's not just about the past....
5) Las indignas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido despues del gran apagon y de varias crisis climaticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que alguien sepa todo...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 382 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Sam lives alone with his mom and their dog in the idyllic seaside town of Santa Bonita. His father died when Sam was young, but his best friend Marco has been helping recreate his dad's old photos as part of a memorial project. One particularly warm October day, however, Sam smells something faint from far away. It's the scent of smoke. An unexpected southern California wildfire is whipping ferociously toward town. Sam, Marco, and...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
"November 1914. Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute-a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she's a twenty-one-year-old Canadian. Since the war broke out, sentiment toward Americans has not been the most favorable, and Clara will be underestimated enough simply for being a woman without...
10) La carretera
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity."--
Author
Series
Dr. Stone volume 26
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Senku has reached that final frontier his own father once traversed--outer space! Unfortunately, the moon mission runs into a sudden, unexpected crisis. Who or what is Why-Man's true identity? And what fate awaits humanity? The science-powered adventure comes to its dramatic conclusion!" --back cover
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Series
Eek! (Jeff Strand) volume 1
Description
"Twins Oliver and Trisha are on a canoe trip with their dad when a freak accident leaves their father badly injured. With no cell phone reception, their only choice is to continue down river and hope to find civilization. And they do-in a small village. Except the people there behave strangely, and weirdest of all is the giant scarecrow in the village square. The townspeople seem nervous-obsessed-with the scarecrow. 'He watches over us,' the twins...
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It looks like paradise…only it’s not. This was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime family trip to Thailand. One last wish for my dying mama. Instead, we’re stranded on a lush, stunning island with ten strangers—held captive as Thai mythology unfolds around us…and within us. Now we’re being tested. We’re expected to face our greatest fears—and possible deaths—in hopes of awakening some...
14) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
403 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
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Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
147 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpages) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki's peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. The lone survivor of his family, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he'll have to do what he does best--run away! Tokiyuki and his loyal retainers, the Elusive Warriors,...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
192 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"What do you wish for most? It's a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Oscar think they know the answer to. Oswald wishes his summer wasn't so boring, Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and Oscar wishes to get his hands on the mechanical toy that's out of stock all over town. But in the twisted world of Five Nights at Freddy's, their hearts' deepest desires have an unexpected cost. In this volume, three stories from the New York Times bestselling series Five...
Author
Series
Dr. Stone volume 22
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! It's the final showdown against the unrelenting Stanley!...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 150 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his life's work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on responses of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nazi death camps, Lifton shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd.
20) Dark heir
Author
Series
Dark rise (Pacat) volume 2
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
479 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Description
"A new threat from the past is rising, and only a handful of heroes remain to fight. Pursued by dark forces, Will and his allies must leave the safety of the Hall and travel to the heart of the ancient world, making new and dangerous alliances, and revealing the shocking secrets of the past. But Will is carrying a dark secret of his own--his true identity. Drawn to the beautiful and deadly James St. Clair, Will is pulled ever deeper into the web of...
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