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2) Banana
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English
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"A quirky and hilarious picture book parable about parental distraction and a daughter's clever solution"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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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"--
4) Gut reaction
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English
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Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
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English
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"Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there--or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station, and not long after, a frantic man arrives. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father. Her name is Mary. Or so he says. When Lola slammed the car door and stormed off into the night, Drew thought they...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
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,...
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English
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"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...
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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...
11) Papá pinta mucho
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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...
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Series
Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's notthe main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes...
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Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gat, a 30-year-old member of the Katanga Gendarmerie, the Belgian colonial police force, is sent from the newly independent Congo to South Africa with a wallet full of blood money and instructions to "Disappear." He arrives there, bearing a secret and searching for redemption.In Cape Town he meets Petra, the 18-year-old daughter of Piet Rousseau, who heads the Bureau of State Security for the apartheid government. When Gat and Piet meet at her parent's...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In New York City, newly single Caroline is stumbling her way through the recent implosion of her life. After a surprise breakup leaves her with no job, no apartment, and no backup plan, she's unsure of what to do next. That is, until Caroline's father, Leo, injures himself in a bad fall and asks her to move home to the Jersey Shore suburb she'd always been desperate to escape. But Leo doesn't want his daughter to be his caretaker; he needs her to...
15) Las alumbradas
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
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"Las hermanas Fernández tienen distintos anhelos, pero vivirán y sufrirán juntas las hazañas y desventuras que conlleva encontrar el propio camino y, sobre todo, la felicidad. Guerrero, principios del siglo xx. Una tragedia cambiará para siempre el destino de la familia Fernández. Tras la muerte de la señora Micaela y la pequeña Milena, don Ismael tendrá que seguir adelante con sus cuatro hijas, quienes entran en la madurez de manera forzada....
16) Rival implacable
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Series
Cruel castaways volume 1
Publisher
Chic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando era joven, Arya Roth se hizo la mejor amiga del hijo de su ama de llaves. Pronto, la amistad se convirtió en amor joven, y cuando Arya lo desafió a besarla, una reacción en cadena de eventos desastrosos llevó al niño a ser enviado lejos y fuera de la vida de Arya. Ahora, dos décadas después, Arya es una publicista en ascenso y su amado padre es uno de sus mayores clientes. Entonces, cuando un ex empleado demanda a su padre, Arya se propone...
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Publisher
Pgw
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story of one man's promise to keep a secret that will keep him at a remove from the greatest joy in his life. One night at a party of artists and intellectuals in Kyoto, Japanese art dealer Haru encounters a woman who unsettles him more than anyone else ever has and he is compelled to know her. Maud, a French woman passing through Japan, is distant. Her cold gaze challenges any exchange,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a tumultuous childhood, Christa Liddle has hidden away, both figuratively and literally. Happily studying sea snails in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Christa finds her tranquil existence thrown into chaos when her once-famous father--long thought dead after a plane crash--turns out to be alive, well, and ready to make amends. The world goes wild, fascinated by this real-life saga, pinning Christa and her family under the spotlight. As if...
19) The Dreamatics
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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...
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