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Author
Series
Studio danse volume 13
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
46 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
The Dance Class students prepare to put on a production of Swan Lake at the Opera de Paris, a ballet company that was founded by Louis XIV in 1669. But with such a big production, tensions abound in the studio! At this rate, can the show go on?
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there. It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Alix Leclaire has a plan: graduate high school and land her dream job as a feather artist at Mille et une Plume, where her creations will help define high fashion. Her best friend Jeanne will get a record contract and they'll take over the Paris art scene together. But then Jeanne dies. Alix is lost, until the day she feels Jeanne pushing her to the feather boutique. Soon, Alix is living a life she hardly recognizes—pursuing a passionate...
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Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her loneliness through her summer algebra class, the city itself, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults fail her again and again with devastating consequences. Dreamlike and beautifully paced, this lyrical debut memoir traces that harrowing summer and its repercussions throughout...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
171 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Description
"Shijima-san is willing to help Nene and her friends escape from the painting, but they don't have much time to reach the distant exit. To make matters worse, Hanako-kun is pulling out all the stops to keep them from leaving. And when Nene pours all her feelings into trying to convince him to let them go, she's shocked by the genuine emotion that wells up from out of him in response"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Komi can't communicate volume 26
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
189 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. Tadano's sister and mom are super supportive about his romantic prospects-- they just somehow got the wrong idea about who he's dating!...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
405 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything changed. Charlotte wants desperately to get back to 'normal,' –whatever that means now– and start reconnecting with friends she hasn't spoken to in months. And she's trying to work through her PTSD with the help of her therapist, only she can't tell the truth about Jerry or what really happened the night he died. Just when Charlotte thinks she...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives—someone she knows only two things her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka's grandmother is dying, and her mother has dragged...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said. And after Libby's recent bipolar III diagnosis and the tragedy that preceded it, Libby knows she and her family need to find a new normal. But Libby's new home turns out to be anything but normal. Scores of bugs haunt its winding halls, towering stained-glass windows feature strange, insectile designs, and the garden teems with impossibly blue roses. And then there are the...
Author
Series
New Americana volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When news of her grandfather's stroke sends Jo Beth Ellis back to the family farm, she finds it in danger of foreclosure. Lone Oaks Crossing is in rough shape, but Jo has big plans--she'll use her expertise as a Derby-winning horse trainer to reinvent the property as a healing retreat. But renovating while trying to keep her independent grandfather in check is a huge job for one woman--and even more challenging when she receives her first client,...
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she'll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee's fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom--a moment Aimee has never remembered before--she...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It's 1988, before autism was widely diagnosed. Sunday has an old etiquette handbook that guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly, her clever, headstrong teenage...
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