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English
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"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two years after the death of his mother, Ewan's father was swept away by a magical cloud. Now Ewan lives with his little sister, Flora, his Grumple and his mischievous cat, Kipper. But something about his father's disappearance has never felt right to Ewan. He is certain his father wouldn't leave willingly. When he meets Mr. So-and-So, the owner of the mysterious Notion Shop, he is inspired to take destiny into his own hands. With his grandfather’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Una joven que crece en una finca lejana y exuberante, a salvo del conflicto y las luchas de la península de Yucatán. La única hija de un investigador que es un genio o un loco. Montgomery Laughton: un supervisor melancólico con un pasado trágico y propensión al alcohol. Un paria que ayuda al Dr. Moreau en sus experimentos, que son financiados por los Lizalde, dueños de magníficas haciendas y arcas abundantes. Los híbridos: Frutos del trabajo...
Author
Publisher
B De Blok
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Mi papá de pequeño dibujaba dinosaurios. Ahora es arquitecto, y dibuja casas y planos. También le gusta pintar caritas sonrientes en mi agenda del cole y corazones de tomate en los macarrones. Papá siempre me explica que es importante esforzarse mucho, pero que no pasa nada si a veces, pintando, nos salimos un poco de la línea. como le recuerda mamá, es mejor acabar manchado que no pintar nada. Y es que mi papá... ¡pinta mucho¡ Un cuento...
Author
Publisher
Minerva
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Little Jesús is excited to spend a Saturday with his landscaper Papá at the "family business." He loves Papá's cool truck and all the tools he gets to use. Papá even puts him in charge of the magical water jug, which is also a clock! When it's empty, Papá explains, the workday will be done. It's a big job, and Jesús wants to do it right. But he just can't help giving water to an array of thirsty animals--a dog in a sweater, some very old cats,...
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English
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"Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood has just completed her life’s work—a proof of a problem so impenetrable it’s nicknamed the Impossible Theorem. Reclusive and burdened by anxiety, Meg has long since been dismissed by academia. Now everyone wants to get their hands on what she alone possesses—especially her own mathematician father. Having grown up a prodigy in a field plagued by sexism and plagiarism, Meg opts for a public presentation...
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Series
Sutherland volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
10) Pedro Páramo
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro Páramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint...
11) My favorite scar
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his--the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to be patching up Víctor's latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them. Although she has come to terms with the realities of her life and enjoys aspects...
Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
[Febrero de 2023]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Turín, siglo XVI. Esta es una historia sobre hombres corruptos que persiguen un fin noble, y hombres nobles que cometen atrocidades. También es un relato de locura y superstición; de un inquisidor implacable y de una joven ingeniera adelantada a su tiempo; de un padre y un hijo que se odian y se necesitan; de un buscavidas sin escrúpulos que descubrirá que vale más de lo que él mismo cree; de una adolescente que huye de sí misma hasta encontrarse...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Abigaíl acaba de cumplir 18 años cuando se entera de que podría perder a su padre. A partir de ese momento, esta adolescente furiosa, desenfadada y vivaz nos enternecerá con sus recuerdos de infancia, sus emociones intensas siempre cambiantes, sus ganas de pertenecer y entender un mundo que le fascina y le intimida, y al que no siempre sabe muy bien cómo acercarse. En tanto, la relación con su padre se va hilando entre suturas, a veces temblorosas,...
15) The Dreamatics
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever awakened from a dream and thought, what was THAT?! A platypus waddling through my school while singing the word farfanoogle? Well, that dream was performed by a dream theatre, and this is the story of one such place: The Lunarian Grand. The Lunarian is a magical theatre with a mind of its own, often redecorating on a whim or making it snow from the rafters. The theatre's troupe call themselves the Dreamatics, and together they grow...
16) Unended
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"What prevents you from finishing your life's work? Josh Bayer finds a manuscript of an unfinished play inside his deceased father's desk. The play tells the story of Josh's mother's early death (age 35) and his father's struggle with single parenthood. When he attempts to adapt the play into comics, it triggers a series of personal crises. Bayer's limitations and futile ambitions are brought into sharp relief as he grapples with an estranged, unknowable...
Author
Publisher
Lil' Libros
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer, los agrícolas trabajan para llenar nuestros estómagos. Contada desde la perspectiva de un hijo orgulloso, esta historia sincera y bellamente ilustrada ilumina el sacrificio y las dificultades que un padre aguanta por su familia.
From dawn to dusk, through sunshine, rainfall, and everything in between, he works his smooth hands until they crack. He harvests plenty of gifts for everyone to enjoy in hope of a...
19) Above the fire
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Laboring under a shared loss, Doug and his young son, Tim, set out on a late season backpacking trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They find beauty and solidarity in the outdoors, making friends along the trail and falling into the rhythms of an expedition. But when reports of warfare and social collapse reach the ranger station, Doug--seeking to protect the only family he has left--withdraws even further into the backcountry"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Discovering that his troubled adult daughter has been kidnapped, a washed-up movie star with no money to pay the ransom turns to his closest friends, a legendary Hollywood stunt man and a disgraced former LAPD detective, to get her back"--
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