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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
Author
Publisher
MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day...Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic--that...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With her past set on haunting her, Simone, whose father was convicted of murdering her mother ten years ago, finds a chance encounter with her childhood next-door neighbor revealing a shocking secret that could prove her father’s innocence or destroy her carefully rebuilt life.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her brother, Akúa returns to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her sister Tamika and the pair visit significant places from their childhood with their brother’s ashes as the siblings grow closer and reestablish their relationship"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Samir and Nagla Al-Menshawy were living the American Dream after emigrating from Egypt to the United States over a decade ago, but the dream was shattered when their son and the daughter of their neighbors and best friends died following a devastating series of events. Now, Samir and Nagla are pariahs in their own town and are struggling to keep what is left of their family, and their life, together.
13) Exodus
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1958.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Story of the Jewish struggle for independence and the birth of the nation of Israel, beginning with the exodus from a Cypriot detention camp of a shipload of courageous European Jews heading to Israel aboard a weathered freighter.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
15) No one can know
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents'...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Bienvenido a el cruce de Caronte. El té está caliente, los bollos recién hechos y los muertos de paso. Cuando Wallace Price se ve asistiendo a su propio funeral, descubre que está muerto. Pero Wallace no está preparado para abandonar este mundo que apenas ha sabido disfrutar en vida. De modo que, cuando le conceden una semana para dar el salto al Más Allá, decide vivir plenamente esos siete días que le quedan. Comenzará entonces un extraordinario...
17) Tender beasts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Hardcover First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny's mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny's once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family's next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious note: 'Take care of Dom.' The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny…and seemingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There's never a good time to learn you are your father's secret child—especially not at the reading of his will. With their father's affairs laid bare and Nora's sensible reputation in tatters due to a viral video scandal, she and her free-spirited sister have nothing left but a rustic inn in the middle of nowhere and each other. What's more, they need to revamp the inn before Labor Day or they lose it all. Nora hasn't even knocked the traveling...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link--one text--bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. ... Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an engagement over a long overdue getaway on a swanky private island...
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In 1855, a terrible massacre in Pine Valley drives the native people into exile. From their hiding place in the mountains, they dream of one day returning home. Their stories enrapture Lucy Shoseegan, a young girl whose mother was killed in the massacre. She envisions their dream and longs to make it a reality. The settlers and townspeople inhabiting the region carry such a dream, as well. But it is a long and painful road nearly lost to the selfish...
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