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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubiishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother's experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome triggers disturbing changes in her teenage daughter, perfect for fans of The Push and The Undoing. "My Name Was Eden is a compulsive, didn't-see-it-coming thriller."—Abigail Dean, international bestselling author of Girl A One twin vanished. The other twin remained. Until now... When her daughter Eden came home from the hospital, Lucy was profoundly...
2) The frame-up
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dani Poissant is the daughter and former accomplice of the world's most famous art thief. There was no job too big for Maria and her loyal crew. The secret to their success? A little thing called magic, kept rigorously secret from the non-magical world. They seemed unstoppable . . . until a teenage Dani turned her mother over to the FBI. Ten years later, with Maria still in prison, Dani finds herself approached for a job that only Maria and her...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Rachel Lynn Solomon, Mary H. K. Choi, and Alex Light! From the critically acclaimed author of Seven Percent of Ro Devereux comes another heartrending and nuanced novel about family, love, and the cost of ambition. "A compelling, beautifully drawn exploration into complicated family and personal relationships and the frailty and fortitude of a girl simply trying to succeed, love, and thrive. I'm proud to live in a book world where...
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Formats
Description
¡El libro de fantasía más adictivo que he leído en una década! .--Tracy Wolff, autora bestseller del New York Times Bestseller del New York Times Un dragón sin su jinete es una tragedia. Un jinete sin su dragón está muerto. --Artículo uno, sección uno del Código de jinetes de dragones Violet Sorrengail creía que a sus veinte años se uniría al Cuadrante de los Escribas para vivir una vida tranquila, estudiando sus amados libros y las...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What makes the place we live feel like home? This is a warm-hearted and lush picture book about family, the immigrant experience and how a simple garden can foster a connection to the larger natural world. Mama was born in a country far away from here. I love her stories about warm rain in winter and green mountains. And now Mama's taking me there! When a young girl and her mother go to visit her family, the girl notices a change. At home, her...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''In this debut spooky adventure, Jerry and her trusty wheelchair move into a creepy motel at the edge of the woods where nothing is as it seems. When her mom disappears, it's up to Jerry to brave the forest and its demons so she can save what's left of her family. Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Krya has always felt like she’s a bit too much. Too tall. Too loud. Too earnest. But she’s okay with that, because she’s got her mom. Ever since Mom got sober about five years ago, she and Kyra have always been there for each other—something Kyra is thankful for every week when she attends her group meetings with other kids of alcoholics. When Mom is managing her cleaning business and Kyra is taking care of things at home, maybe, she thinks,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas and Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her elderly mother falls under the spell of a handyman who's a little too kind, a little too involved, Connie, when he moves in, finds her desperate attempts to unmask him leaving her wondering if she's lost her grip on reality-and if that's been hisplan all along.
"A stranger has infiltrated your family…and now he's taking over. Paul's just here to help, or so he claims—sent by a charity for vulnerable people to do odd jobs for elderly...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a post-colonial novel, if only she could work out just what that means, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectations and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A ratings sensation for ABC, it was already a successful 1956 novel and 1957 film, made its way to network television in 1964. A prime-time soap opera whose influences can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, the show examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
11) Hair oil magic
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful picture book about the joyful magic in the tradition of hair oiling and a celebration of the bond between parent and child. Meenu loves Magic Hair Days, when Mommy mixes sweet-smelling oils together and massages the potion into Meenu's scalp and hair. It always leaves Meenu with a fuzzy, magical feeling. And after bath time, when Mom washes the oils out, Meenu's hair is soft and shining. When Meenu decides one day to mix the oils without...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
''The creepy middle grade debut from USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard in which a girl stays with her grandmother in Trinidad for the summer and discovers that she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Darika "Rika" Lovelace is in trouble. The kind of trouble that sends her to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad for the whole summer. But something about the island feels…different. As soon as she steps off the plane, strange things...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A prime-time soap opera whose influence can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, it examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
Look past the innocent fa{cedil}cade of small-town life and discover the truth about Peyton Place.
14) Four letter word
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.
"In this pulse pounding thriller, Izzy and her family welcome an exchange student into their home. But after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect the young man is not who...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The winter holidays have come and gone, and the new year begins with a fresh dusting of snow and the return of Elliot Carson to Peyton Place. Behind the picket fences of the clapboard houses, beyond the historic pillory in the quaint town square, the neatly wrapped New England town continues to unravel in ways no one could have imagined.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
" In 2019, newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba to care after her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes wasa little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Life sucks when you're twelve. You're not a little kid, but you're also not an adult, and all the grown-ups in your life talk about your body the minute it starts getting a shape. And what sucks even more than being a Chinese-Filipino-American-Guatemalan who can't speak any ancestral language well? When almost every other girl in school has already gotten her period except for you and your two besties. Manuela "Mani" Semilla wants two things: To...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her family's tormentor issues her an ultimatum: she has 10 years to locate her mother or suffer the consequences, Violet Everly, to finally free them from the curse, travels to the edges of the world to find the key to the city of stardust, where theEverly story began.
"Slip into a lush world of magic, stardust, and monsters in this spellbinding contemporary fantasy from debut author Georgia Summers. For centuries, the Everlys have seen their...
Author
Publisher
Sibylline Press, an imprint of All Things Book
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past Jane is to the world a charismatic personality opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by...
20) Four daughters
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
"This riveting documentary by filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania uses an audacious formal conceit to tell the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters. Attempting to answer the question of how and why the Tunisian woman's two eldest were radicalized, Ben Hania reveals a complex history. We watch as the family relives key events in their lives with help from professional actors standing in for the missing girls. Winner of the Best Documentary award...
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