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Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Las brujas se rigen por tres normas irrompibles: esconde tu magia, mantén la cabeza gacha y aléjate del resto de brujas. Por eso, Mika Moon está acostumbrada a estar sola, pero todo cambia cuando le llega un mensaje inesperado rogándole que viaje a Nowhere House, una mansión misteriosa, para enseñar a tres niñas a controlar sus poderes. Al romper todas las reglas y aceptar el desafío, Mika descubrirá en los confines de Nowhere House secretos...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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?...Kate...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After surviving years of abuse, 27-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, is at peace in this familial existence until she runs into Mel, the woman she used to love, who causes her to question the very foundations of the life she's built.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A Londoner transported from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, Tess, as she and her husband settle in, finds the dramatic arrival of their fraternal twins—one who presents as black and the other as white—stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging.
7) Two together
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, Cat and Dog experience many unexpected twists and adventures on their journey home.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together. They refer to themselves as “las Madres,” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975, when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest in her dance academy...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendías, in an illustrated version of the novel commemorating its fiftieth anniversary.
10) La sed
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
En dos épocas distintas, dos mujeres enfrentan miedos, soledad, mortalidad y un anhelo inquietante que no les permite descansar. Una novela disruptiva que borra los límites del género, de manos de una de las nuevas voces más interesantes del gótico feminista en Latinoamérica. Es el ocaso de las bacanales sangrientas en Europa, del asesinato y los festines sin fin. En el siglo XIX, una vampira llega de Europa a la costa de Buenos Aires, y por...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting....
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage España
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
Author
Series
Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: what really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question is on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must decide if she really believes what she tells him that night-in...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything for their romantic getaway weekend in New York City, but when she comes downstairs on the final morning of their trip, there's a stranger lying dead in the foyer and Ty is nowhere to be found. A Black woman alone in a new city, Bree is stranded and out of her depth - especially when it becomes clear that the dead woman is none other than Janelle Beckett, a missing white woman the entire internet...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past, beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families forever joined by country-and by long-held secrets-and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship-until a deathbed revelation ripples through their...
Author
Publisher
The Gryphon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A story of wonder and hope, with poetic language and lush oil paintings. Children will cheer on the tiny but mighty yellow warbler as she makes her perilous migration journey from the tropics of Central America to the Canadian tundra. The warbler is helped along the way by three different children and families: a Nicaraguan family whose traditional shade coffee farm sustains migrant birds, an African-American family that creates a garden in their...
18) Just like Millie
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city. Despite her mother's efforts to take her out, the girl would rather play by herself in their cozy home-she feels just fine on her own. Introductions to children her age have her hiding behind her mother's legs, and invitations to group activities have her in tears. That is, until she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not too small, and kisses her arm when the girl nervously...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering for its annual celebration at the family’s historic Chesapeake farm, Mason’s Retreat. It isn’t everyone’s favorite tradition, but Harry Mason has once again goaded his wife, Kate, and their children into participating. Their oldest, Rosalie, is having trouble with her marriage; the youngest, Ethan, is in the throes of a fitful first relationship. In between, Eleanor despairs...
Author
Publisher
Peter C. Kray/Shred White & Blue Media
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Kray's lyrical homage to skiers and skiing perfectly captures the eccentric, obsessed and often crazy people inclined to bound down mountains at breakneck speeds in search of glory, experience, enlightenment, money and maybe even god. The God of Skiing is Kray's first novel."