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1) Matterhorn
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind-back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya-his close friend, his rival in love....
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
Description
How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued? In a tranquil neighborhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find the mirrors in their bedrooms are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives into to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways, watchful portraits and twinkling chandeliers. In this new sanctuary, they are confronted with a set of clues leading to a hidden room where one of them will...
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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds--and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national...
5) Enlighten me
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
137 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When Binh fights back against a bully who makes fun of his Vietnamese heritage, he expects to be cheered as the hero. He defeated the bad guy, right? Instead, it gets him a stern warning from his vice principal and worried parents. Now he's stuck on a family trip to a silent meditation retreat. That means no talking--and no video games!--for a whole weekend. Could things possibly get any worse? However, when a nun gathers all the kids to tell them...
Author
Appears on list
Description
When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Blood is survival for seventeen-year-old Bly, who lives in the poverty-stricken human villages caught between enemy vampire and witch kingdoms. Most of the time, vampires and witches live in uneasy truce, buying human blood for their food and spells. But for two weeks a year, the ceasefire dissolves, and they hold the Revenant Games. Any human can play in the games for either the witches or the vampires. Alongside life-changing riches, the witches...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's the final years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Br�id and her sister, Ina, try to maintain a stable life in a divided country. Pushed by her mother's fanaticism and a family tragedy, Br�id joins the IRA and makes a devastating choice. Frightened and guilt ridden, she flees, leaving behind Ireland and her family for America. Years later, her guilt and tragic history still buried, Br�id is an overprotective mother raising her sensitive...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers-and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking... Selena Lucy Landry (named for a ship, as every sailor's child should be) has been frightened of the water ever since she lost her father at sea. But with no one else to care for her, she's sent to foster with the Martins-a large...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of Quarto Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 30 cm
Description
"Nicky Claus works with his three uncles in the Claus Brothers Toy Emporium. Uncle Hanz makes the toys, Uncle Louis checks them and Uncle Levi adds the… what's the scientific term for it? Ah, yes. The magic! For each toy made at the Emporium has a special sparkle that means it will find the child it is perfect for.One day, Nicky notices a young girl with her face pressed up to the glass. When she disappears, he follows her and finds her living on...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"Liana Sarkar lives and breathes music, hoping to follow in the footsteps of her A&R coordinator father. Maybe if she succeeds, he'll finally give her the time of day instead of drowning himself in work to distract from the grief of her mother's passing. When Liana accidentally sabotages an up-and-coming local band, Third Eye, she makes it her mission to steer them towards success—without them discovering her role in their setback. But as she...
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...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home across the decades are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry...
14) The invocations
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider—that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave—even trading in the occult. Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong,...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Princess Imogen of Goslind has lived a sheltered life for three years at the boarded-up castle, she and the rest of its inhabitants safe from the bloody mori roja plague which has ravaged the kingdom. But Princess Imogen has a secret, and as King Stuart descends further into madness, it's at great risk of being revealed. Rations dwindle each day, and unhappy murmurings threaten to crack the facade of the years-long charade being played within the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ekeka
Pub. Date
junio de 2021.
Physical Desc
14 unnumbered board-pages (8 boards total) : color illustrations ; 16 x 16 cm
Description
"Buscando construir una casa resistente donde poder vivir, los tres cerditos exploran las figuras geométricas. Aprende sus nombres en español e inglés, y descubre junto a ellos cómo será su nueva casa." --
"Seeking to build a sturdy house to live in, the three little pigs explore geometric shapes. Learn their names in Spanish and English, and discover with them what their new home will be like." --
Author
Series
Orris and Timble volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris "make the good and noble choice" (as the king on his prized sardine can might recommend) and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies? And if he does, will he be ready for the consequences?"--
18) La jugada final: Acertijos tras acertijos : secretos y mas secretos : el ganador se lo lleva todo
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Para conseguir heredar miles de millones, Avery Grambs solo tiene que sobrevivir unas semanas más en la mansión Hawthorne. Pero los paparazzi no la dejan en paz, la presión sigue subiendo y el peligro acecha por todos lados. La luz al final del túnel son los hermanos Hawthorne, cuyas vidas están completamente entrelazadas con la de Avery. El momento en que Avery se convierta en la adolescente más rica del planeta se acerca, y es entonces cuando...
19) Foe: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving behind a charred wasteland. Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable if solitary life on one of the last remaining farms. Their private existence is disturbed the day a stranger comes to the door with alarming news. Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm, but the most unusual part is that arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have...
20) Union station
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 7
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Los Angeles, 1953. It has been five years since British journalist John Russell struck a deal with a high-ranking Soviet official, relieving Russell of his duty as double-agent for Soviet and American intelligence. Now Russell lives a life of relative comfort in Los Angeles alongside his wife, Effi, a star on an American sitcom, and their adopted daughter, Rosa, a young artist on the cusp of adulthood. He has just begun work on a book investigating...
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