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Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the far reaches of northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys that are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble during the election. When their attempt to burn down the opposition's headquarters ends in disaster, Dantala must run for his life, leaving his best friend behind. He ends up at a mosque in a motor park where he soon becomes a favored apprentice to the mosque's Sheikh. He is assigned a roommate name Jibril, and a...
1522) From Archie to Zack
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
“Archie loves Zack!" “Zack loves Archie!” Everyone said it was so. But Archie hasn’t told Zack yet. And Zack hasn’t told Archie. They spend just about every minute together: walking to and from school, doing science and art projects, practicing for marching band, learning to ride bikes, and so much more. Over the course of a few months, Archie tries to write a letter to Zack to tell him how he feels: “From A to Z.” None of his drafts...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Maggie and Emily meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends--even though Emily's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Emily and Maggie grow apart. In her twenties, beautiful and spirited Emily worries she'll never amount to more than the glittering...
1524) Cantoras
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
In 1977 Uruguay, a military government crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In this environment, where the everyday rights of people are under attack, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression to be punished. And yet Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus," Paz, and Malena-five cantoras, women who "sing"-somehow, miraculously, find one another. Together, they discover an isolated, nearly uninhabited cape, Cabo Polonio, which they claim as their...
1525) ¡¿Aventura en París?!
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 14
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"¡Súper chic! ¿¡Nikki visitará la ciudad del amor?! No te pierdas esta aventura en el decimoquinto volumen de la serie «Diario de Nikki», el diario en el que Nikki le da vueltas a todo... ¿Se las arreglará Nikki para visitar al fin París? ¿O acabará organizando una recogida de fondos con temática parisina para ayudar al refugio de animales de Brandon, el chico que le gusta, junto a sus amigas? ¡El drama está servido!
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping novel about friendship, secrets, misjudgments, and redemption among women by the USA Today bestselling author of The Weight of a Piano. Martha Hale is an affable wife and mother who lives in an affluent neighborhood of well-tended lawns and high expectations. If only her clumsiness at penetrating the social circles of her neighbors weren't making Martha so lonely. That's why she's thrilled when the glamorous Minnie Foster, a former high...
1527) Musical chairs: a novel
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about modern family life with all of its discord and harmony"--
"Bridget and Will have the kind of relationship that people envy: they're loving, compatible, and completely devoted to each other. The fact that they're strictly friends seems to get lost on nearly everyone; after all, they're as good as married in (almost) every way. For three decades, they've nurtured their baby, the Forsyth Trio--a chamber group they created as college students--but...
1528) Shadow spell
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O'Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It's where his sister, Branna, lives and works; where his cousin, Iona, has found true love; and where his childhood friends form a circle that can't be broken. A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape -- by a long-awaited kiss. Meara Quinn is Branna's best friend, a sister in all but blood. Her and Connor's paths cross...
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Language
English
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Description
Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it-teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when...
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld. Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable...
1531) Memory piece
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
1532) The imposters: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life. Like a twenty-first-century Scheherazade, Dora spins stories to ward off her end. From New Delhi to New York, Copenhagen...
1533) Outsider
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. Ten years ago, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy, graduating...
1534) The beantown girls
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She'll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he returns from the war, and settle down in the Boston suburbs. But when her fiancé is reported missing after being shot down in Germany, Fiona's long-held plans are shattered. Determined to learn her fiancé's fate, Fiona leaves Boston to volunteer overseas as a Red Cross Clubmobile girl, recruiting her two best friends to come along. There's...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Self-appointed fixer of other people’s woes Marjette Lewis is uncharacteristically determined to keep to her side of the driveway when it comes to her flawless neighbor Noa Abrams. Professionally, Marjette has her hands full as she prepares for a new class of kindergarteners and her first year of teaching without her best friend, Judy, as campus “Black-up.” And at home, her son’s budding manhood challenges her expectations, and her vexing...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go...
1537) Beautiful liars
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A television show host seeks the truth about the disappearance of her childhood friend, but risks revealing secrets of her own.
In the photograph three girls lounge on the grass during a school field trip. There's Liv, petite and wickedly funny; Juliet, their unofficial leader; and Martha, the last known person to see Juliet alive. Without witnesses or clues, the investigation fell apart. Martha, now a TV celebrity preparing to host a show investigating...
1538) The pelican: a comedy
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A fearlessly funny tragedy about an improbable friendship, unstable dreams, missed opportunities, and epic coincidence. In a quiet coastal town in Yugoslavia, two men seeking more than the Communist regime can offer find their lives deceitfully entwined. Andrej is a postman in complete denial of his existence. He yearns for respect and fame but commits petty crimes for reasons he doesn't fully comprehend. Josip is an increasingly irrelevant cable...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly arrived African-American father and son. When Pete Solomon, a neglected twelve-year-old boy, and Justin bring a wounded wolf-dog hybrid to Dr. Lucy, the outcasts...
Author
Series
All those explosions volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Monsters are real. But so are heroes. Sparks are champions of weird science. Boasting capes and costumes and amazing super-powers that only make sense if you don't think about them too hard, they fight an eternal battle for truth and justice . . . mostly. Darklings are creatures of myth and magic: ghosts, vampires, were-beasts, and the like. Their very presence warps reality. Doors creak at their approach. Cobwebs gather where they linger. Kim Lam...
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