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1) Churro stand
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On a hot summer's day, Lucía and her brother accompany their mother to sell delicious, sugary churros on the bustling streets of New York City. But when a thunderstorm rolls in and the customers are chased away, Lucía's mother must improvise with a little bit of magic and lots of amor. Inspired by the author's relationship with her own mother, this heartwarming picture book celebrates love, community, and the POP, SIZZLE, and CRUNCH of a perfect...
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
En un día caluroso de verano, Lucía y su hermano acompañan a su madre a vender churros deliciosos y azucarados en las bulliciosas calles de Nueva York. Pero cuando se acerca una tormenta y los clientes huyen, la madre de Lucía improvisa con un poco de magia y mucho amor. Inspirado en la relación de la autora con su propia madre, este libro conmovedor celebra el amor, la comunidad y el crujido, estallido y chisporroteo de un churro perfecto.
Lucia...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Young is an American Born Chinese (ABC) growing up in Queens and has been told by his beloved Su Su (uncle) that one has only seven great loves in a lifetime. Young's childhood is marked by an obsessive love of comics, music, and movies... as well as a parade of school-yard crushes, tantalizing pen-pal exchanges, and a lasting infatuation with Winona Ryder. But, at the end of 1995, when Young is a sophomore at NYU, he meets Erena--brilliant, charismatic,...
4) Five stories
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s. Jenny writes letters in Yiddish to her grandmother, while practicing her English in her new neighborhood. By the 1930s, when Anna Cozzi and her Italian family move into the building, Jenny has become a teacher in Anna’s school....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three classic American novels create a memorable portrait of a young working-class intellectual from the South and his misadventures with hair straightening, partying with the bohemian elite of Greenwich Village, male prostitution, and drug abuse"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Down at the bottom of the tall buildings of New York City, Magnolia Wu sits inside her parents’ laundromat. She has pinned every lost sock from the laundromat onto a bulletin board, in hopes that customers will return to retrieve them. But no one seems to have noticed. In fact, barely anyone has noticed Magnolia at all. What she doesn’t know is that this is about to be her most exciting summer yet. When Iris, a new friend from California arrives,...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. She loves this new life, but more than anything, she loves it for helping her forget the decade she spent in New York City; the years she spent orbiting the brilliant and famous author M. Domínguez. But when a reporter calls from the US asking for an interview,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of a part-time high school English teacher. At home, her two children, increasingly restless in the wake of the pandemic, ask constant questions that flit from the weirdness of television shows to casual conversations about mortality. Her husband, always on business calls with Hong Kong at odd hours, shows up for meals only occasionally. At...
10) Street dreams
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Darius, the only child of a singer-turned-alcoholic, feels he has nothing to hold on to except the idea of one day escaping the ghetto. Years ago he took the rap for his friend and did some time in prison. When he is released he finds escape in the arms of his soul mate, Trinity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy kill - and was it for his collection, for college politics,...
12) Tower of Babel
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Scraping by as a foreclosure profiteer after a spectacular fall from grace, a once high-powered Manhattan attorney is implicated in an informant's murder and forced to confront greedy developers, mobsters, activists, and rivals to clear his name.
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