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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
High-school senior Alexa Brooks is trying to forget about her former potential boyfriend, Carson Knight, who is now a heartthrob actor renamed Cayden McKnight, so when a school assignment brings them together, Alexa must enter the world of bright lights to try to make amends.
Author
Series
Sunken archive volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming pen-pal romance, perfect for fans of Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries and The House in the Cerulean Sea. A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably,...
5) Dear Wendy
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a 'real' university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she’ll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she’s behind the incredibly popular 'Dear Wendy' account. When...
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The western wood is where Ro's father built their garden, taught her to forage, and told her tales of the faeries who live there how to summon them, how to protect herself, and warnings of what they are capable of. Now, her father is gone, the garden has withered, and their family is struggling. Her mother and sister want to move into town, but Ro doesn't want to give up the memories of her father and his stories or the charming village girl who...
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A sweet poem about a mother's love for her child.
I'm so lucky to be your mother.We will always be with each other.Because you mean the world to me.Written by actor and comedian Bayne Gibby and illustrated by picture book artist David Walker, YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME is a reassuring story about a mother's love for her little one. Filled with tender, uplifting, and precious moments, this padded board book is the perfect story to share with the center...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites—threatening the foundations of the lives they’ve built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston. Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in...
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At six years old, the child-narrator of this picture book loves nothing more than spending time with his grandpa, Luis--especially in his marvelous garden, where green beans reach as high as the sky. Luis’s garden is where the little boy practices reading and writing. But just as importantly, it’s also where he learns wonderful things from Luis, like the names of all the birds in the trees and new expressions that are so much fun to say. Luis's...
12) Inverno: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Caroline waited for fifteen minutes in the snow. After a little time had passed, she was simply waiting to see what would happen. It was entirely possible he would not come. If he did not come, she would be in a different story than the one she had imagined, but it was possible, she knew, to imagine anything. Inverno is a love story that stretches across decades. Inverno is also the story of Caroline, waiting in Central Park in a snowstorm for her...
13) Romeo y Julieta
Author
Publisher
Panamericana Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the play in which two children from warring families fall in love, with a tragic result.
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
Description
"Ay, el amor... No siempre está donde se le espera y, a veces, llega sin esperarlo. Acompaña a los protagonistas de esta divertida historia a dar un romántico paseo a orillas del mar y déjate sorprender por cuántas cosas pueden llegar a suceder. ¿Serás capaz de descubrirlas todas?"
17) Redeeming 6
Author
Series
Boys of Tommen volume 4
Publisher
[Publisher unknown]
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Aoife is absolutely unwilling to give up the boy she loves, so she is determined to save him from self-destruction. She becomes trapped in a world she doesn't understand, but her heart is stronger than what's trying to drag her down. Aoife will never give up on Joey, no matter how much is stacked against them.
Author
Publisher
Silver Dolphin Books, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate your little baby boo with this sweet and colorful rhyming board book."--Page [4] of cover. This addition to the beloved You're My Little series features beautiful nighttime illustrations of iconic Halloween characters such as ghosts, pumpkins, and candy corn. Children will love the interactive features alongside the story about a parent's love for a child. This adorable board book is a wonderful bedtime story for Halloween or any time of...
19) Love
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An incendiary and stylish debut from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly intimate and lyrically deft, Maayan Eitan's debut follows Libby as she goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, riding in cars, seeing clients, meeting and befriending other sex workers and pimps. In prose as crystalline...