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181) A million things
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A bursting, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it's always just been her, Mum, and their dog, Splinter. They don't have a lot, but that's fine, because they like keeping their world small. They have their walks, their cooking routines, and sometimes Mum will disappear for a little while to clear her head, but...
182) A furry faux paw
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publising Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes Your Best Self Is Your Fursona. Online, MauveCat (a cool, confident, glittering pixie cat) has friends and a whole supportive furry community that appreciates her art. At home, Maeve Stephens has to tiptoe around her hoarder mother's mood and mess. When her life is at its hardest, Maeve can always slip into Mauve, her fursona, and be "the happy one," the bubbliest, friendliest artist in her community--it's even how she made her best friend,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters...
184) Entre los rotos
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Una joven encuentra la colección de fotos de su hermano menor. No entiende por qué Julián decidió conservar esas imágenes. No retratan momentos particularmente alegres, por el contrario, casi todas pueden verse como la antesala de una catástrofe doméstica. Pensándolo bien, eso fue su infancia en Veracruz: la antesala y las secuelas de una catástrofe continua, la construcción minuciosa de las ruinas que son ella, su hermano y su madre. Su...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her...
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Series
Language
English
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"The Wright family is in ruins. Sue Ellen Wright has what she thinks is a close-to-perfect life. A terrific career as a Classics professor, a loving husband, and a son who is just about to safely leave the nest. But then disaster strikes. She learns that her husband is cheating, and that her son has made a complete mess of his life. So, when the opportunity to take her family to a Greek island for a month presents itself, she jumps at the chance....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about three generations of the Wise family--Evelyn, Laura, and Grace--as they hunt for contentment amid chaos of their own making. Evelyn set aside her career to marry late, and motherhood never became her. Her daughter Laura felt this acutely and wants desperately to marry, but she soon discovers her husband Gabe to be a man who expects too much of everyone in his life, especially his musician son. Grace has moved out from Laura and Gabe's...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded fac̦ade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream of theirs--a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he hopes will save them may destroy them instead. Half a world...
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of World War II, a young girl grows up in Texas, lost between the unpredictable rage of her war-traumatized father and the distant stoicism of her mother. Finding herself at odds with the beliefs--religious and otherwise--of her family, she must discover her own way of making sense of the world and her place in it ... For Dick and Jane, Dallas after World War II is a place of promise and prosperity: the first home air conditioners are...
190) Free day
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from the private Catholic high school she attends on scholarship to the rocky, barren farm where her family lives. It's a journey she makes every two weeks, forty miles round trip, traveling between opposite poles of ambition and guilt, school and home. Galla's loving, overwhelmed, incompetent mother doesn't want her to go to school; she wants...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"...An imagined life, with Faulkner's tragic sensibility and Beckett's relentless grief."- Ricardo Baixeras, El Periodico From one of Mexico's leading writers-a memoir about three men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional lives and roles. In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years. A decade later, his son, Carlos Monge Sánchez, deserts...
Author
Publisher
Harper Avenue
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father's death at the hands of his mother and older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself--or his family's secrets. Seventeen years later, Iapetus's son, the stoic Atlas, lives in a loveless house under the care of his uncle Cronus, and in the shadow of his charismatic...
193) Ni aquí ni allí
Author
Publisher
AdN Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Ni aquí ni allí es un relato intergeneracional con un ritmo implacable sobre la violencia y la superación, la memoria y la identidad, la belleza y la desperación incrustadas en la historia de una nación y su pueblo. Cuenta la historia de doce nativos americanos, cada uno con una razón personal para ir al gran powwow de Oakland, la gran celebración de pueblos indígenas. Jacquie Red Feather hace poco que ha dejado el alcohol y está intentando...
194) Go ask Fannie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone has baggage. The Blaire siblings are just taking theirs home for the long weekend. When Murray Blaire invites his three grown children to his New Hampshire farm for a few days, he makes it clear he expects them to keep things pleasant. The rest of his agenda--using Ruth and George to convince their younger sister, Lizzie, to break up with her much older boyfriend--that he chooses to keep private. But Ruth and George arrive bickering, with...
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janes
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Los Casey son una familia glamurosa y feliz. Johnny Casey, sus hermanos Ed y Liam, sus preciosas e inteligentes mujeres y todos sus hijos pasan mucho tiempo juntos: fiestas de cumpleaños, aniversarios, fines de semana que comparten fuera... Jessie, la mujer de Johnny, se encarga de organizarlo todo porque no hay nada que desee más que crear recuerdos juntos. Pero ¿qué ocurre cuando esos recuerdos no son lo que esperas? Todas las familias esconden...
196) El instinto
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
marzo 2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Blythe ya no sabe qué es verdad y qué es mentira: ¿está viviendo la vida feliz que siempre deseó, con un marido perfecto y una hija angelical? ¿O está repitiendo la sórdida historia de su madre y su abuela, marcada por el desapego y el maltrato? ¿Es Fox, su marido, el compañero y padre ideal, o tiene una vida paralela que cada día lo aleja más de su casa? Su hija Violet ¿es una niña brillante y complicada, que solo quiere que su madre...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A small, declining town in Ohio. A family bereaved by terrible loss. A searing narrative about how American lives touch each other across divides both real and imagined... Set in failing small town in central Ohio, The Heart of It All asks how one manages, in an America of increasing division, to find a sense of family and community. Focusing on the members of three families: the Baileys, a white family who have put down deep roots in the community;...
198) Other people's pets
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her. La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of "unfit mother" feel...
200) Pretty ugly
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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