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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Years ago Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her regular diner for coffee, she keeps to herself, gets her perfectly normal copywriting job done, and doesn't date. Her carefully cultivated world is upended when her childhood hero, Francis Keen, is brutally murdered. Francis was the woman behind the famous advice column, Dear Constance, and her words helped Alex through some of her darkest times. When Alex...
Author
Publisher
SFWP
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the parched, post-apocalyptic Western U.S. of the 22nd Century, wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. Water and safety are elusive in this chaotic world of alchemical transformations, where history books bleed, dragons kiss, and gun-toting trees keep their own kind of peace. Among this menagerie of strange beasts, two sentient stone gargoyles, known only as "E" and "M," flee the rubble of their Southwestern church in search of...
3) Up high
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A walk down busy city streets can feel scary when you're small, but the world doesn't seem so frightening when you're perched up high on Dad's shoulders!"
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Artem lives in the sleepy city of Stalingrad, which has mostly been cut off from war with Nazi Germany--until the summer of 1942. That July, martial law is declared as the Nazis begin their unprecedented march toward the city. Artem's older brother is a soldier in Stalin's Red Army, so Artem is worried for his brother's safety once he and his family have evacuated the city. Then the announcement comes. Stalin has ordered that no civilians be allowed...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Simple, rhyming words delightfully capture the lovable nature and hilarious habits of mischievous kittens. Three city kitties live in an apartment on a busy street. They sit side-by-side in the window, preening and watching the world go by. They make mischief, hiding from a delivery person and playing in a box. They beg for food and get the zoomies, chasing each other up and down the walls, and take a nap. Hints of the humans in the apartment going...
6) Entitlement
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Brooke Orr is on a mission to change her life and the world. Assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the quest to give away his vast fortune turns out to be deeply satisfying work, a noble life path. All you need to make the world a better place, it turns out, is the right ideals with the right amount of money. She and her billionaire make an uncommon pair: Brooke, 33, is a Black woman raised by a single mother in New York City; Asher Jaffee, 83,...
Author
Series
Peanut Jones volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Drawing feels like magic to Peanut Jones. But art can't fix her problems. Her dad has gone missing, and she's stuck in a boring new school. Until the day she finds a unique pencil turbo-charged with special powers. Suddenly she's pulled into a world packed with more colour, creativity, excitement and danger than she could ever have imagined. And maybe, just maybe, she might find out what happened to her dad.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The never-before-told inside story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center - an epic tale of business, politics, and engineering by the man who spent two decades working to make it happen. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 destroyed the World Trade Center, New Yorkers and Americans faced a critical set of questions: What should be done with the site? Could the towers be replaced? And how best to memorialize those lost on that day? For Larry...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives -- all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur's only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Helga is not the obedient science experiment her father intended. And though she has only just awoken, he leaves her in the care of his lab assistant Penny to go on a business trip. Bursting with curiosity, Helga quickly escapes from the well-meaning Penny and heads into Amaris City. There Helga finds she is as untamable as the invasive blackberry vines overtaking the island. And because of the misdeeds of her fathers scientific community, the natural...
11) Medici heist
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue and opulence, murder and betrayal. Seventeen-year-old conwoman Rosa Cellini arrives in the city the same day that the Medici Pope, Leo X, returns to take up the reins of power. This is not a coincidence. The new Pope is extorting a mountain of indulgence money from the people of Florence to bolster his power and standing, and Rosa has a plan to take it back. To pull off the Renaissance's greatest robbery,...
Author
Series
Fever house duology volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Five years after the event that drove most of the global population to madness, the world is overrun with the "fevered"-once-human, zombielike creatures drawn indiscriminately to violence and murder. In a campaign to return the country to normalcy, the massive corporation known as Terradyne Industries has merged with the U.S. government in a partnership of dubious motives, quarantining major American cities behind towering walls and corralling the...
13) Nine tailed
Author
Series
Realm of four kingdoms volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. So she drifts from city to city--staying clear of any and all attachment--and keeps her fox buried deep inside her. It is better this way. She would rather live as half of herself than risk losing control of her terrible powers. Ethan Lee, a friend she left behind eight years ago, is a brilliant and distractingly...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Around the world, kids wake up and go to school every day, just like you! Some students go to school by train, while others go by boat. There are schools in the middle of busy cities and there are schools that float on water. Learn all about what schools are like across the globe. Let's go to school!"--
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From one of Mexico's most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in understanding ourselves. In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaña París explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of himself. In Mexico City he's a young poet eager to prove himself. In Montreal--an opioid addict desperate...
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Godfather of New York City hardcore and founding member of Agnostic Front invites you into his lower east side pad to regale you with tales from his extraordinary life among mobsters, punk rockers, and a bevy of iconic artists and personalities—none of whom is as interesting or fascinating as the inimitable Vinnie Stigma! --from publisher's website.
17) El Museo
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"De la pluma del autor superventas Owen King llega una novedad de fantasía dickensiana en la que los gatos son considerados dioses, los ladrones son nobles, los académicos son radicales y los conjuradores son los criminales más magníficos que puedas imaginar." -- (back cover).
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters...
Author
Publisher
She Writers Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews is filled with wonderfully rich characters, hilarious dialogue, and keen portraits of the secretive hothouse Orthodox world and the struggling New York City of the 1980s: dirty, on the edge, but fully vital and embracing."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Alias Emma volume 3
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit when her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning--but they have no idea who the target is. Surrounded by the world's most powerful political leaders in a gridlocked city, Emma must set a trap and use herself as bait. With time running short, Emma faces the most perilous mission of her career. How far will she go to catch the killer?"--
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