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Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A "novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a 'perfect' suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Quinta edición.
Language
English
Description
Sigue las vivencias de las protagonistas de la saga Dos mujeres: una historia de amistad que recorre la segunda parte del siglo XX Érase una vez dos niñas, Elena y Lila, que nacieron en 1944 en un barrio pobre de la ciudad de Nápoles, y desde entonces su historia ha sido el hilo conductor de esta espléndida saga napolitana que ahora llega a su tercera entrega. Lila se casó muy joven con el hombre más adinerado del barrio y poco tardó en dejarlo....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1985, Lisa Whitaker is a church kid headed to college on a scholarship while her best friend, Dana, is floundering in the wake of her mother’s latest eviction. Though Lisa tries to help, their paths diverge. Fifteen years later, Lisa has a beautiful family and is stepping into her dream job as the director for a social services organization. Everything is going right—until her future is snatched away by identity theft. Her life...
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book dub to Italy for the fun girl's trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
Author
Language
English
Description
June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bridesmaid for one of her oldest friends, 33-year-old Athena Matthias, still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, arrives in Watercolor, Florida, for the wedding where an unexpected guest from the past throws the entire wedding party into chaos.
When thirty-three-year-old Athena Matthias is asked, yet again, to be a bridesmaid, she's not exactly enthusiastic about the idea. Still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, she's never felt...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclay’s unimpeachable society life come tumbling down? One minute she’s speaking before Chicago’s glitterati. The next, her financier husband is wanted for embezzlement. Her assets seized and her fall mortifyingly public, CeCe grasps for refuge—and employment—as a sorority housemom at Eli Whitney University, her daughter Hayden’s alma mater. Tasked with preparing a stately—but in CeCe’s estimation...
48) Lazos de tinta
Author
Publisher
B / Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
"Manuela ha crecido en la pobreza. Hija de una lavandera y de un indeseable, ha sufrido las penurias de una ciudad donde el abismo entre las clases sociales es insalvable. Sin embargo, gracias a una vecina, Manuela tiene algo que la mayoría no posee: sabe leer. Cuando su madre muere y ella huye de un padre que quiere abusar de su poder y utilizarla, su camino se cruza con el de una joven escritora, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Criada en una familia...
49) Club Kick Out!
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]-
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the school principal cancels Sasha’s gaming club, she’s crushed—but not alone. Turns out theater, cosplay, and choir clubs are canceled too, and tons of kids are left without a space to let their creativity shine. Just when she thinks all hope is lost, a class project leads Sasha and her new friends somewhere they never expected—a local wrestling match—where costumes, secret identities, and catchphrases abound. It’s there an idea...
50) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Korea to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn’t perfect. Her teachers can’t pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes—especially her eyes—feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental...
Author
Series
Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt's grandmother, accepts her longtime friend Winnie's gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Winnie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins investigating Winnie's disappearance. Mariah's uncanny...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de México desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prácticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dejó paralítica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos años después en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families forever joined by country-and by long-held secrets-and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship-until a deathbed revelation ripples through their...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Kiersten McCann, president of the West Hollywood Moms' Club, turns up dead in her own pool, it quickly becomes clear this wasn't an accident. And the party guests-all members of the exclusive club-are now key suspects in her murder. Accusations fly, and three mothers find themselves at the center of the investigation. Whitney, Brooke, and Jade all have heavy secrets to bear...and possible motives for their friend's murder. But as the police...
56) En tus tacones
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
"¿Quién eres cuando tienes que caminar con los zapatos de otra persona? Nisha viaja por todo el mundo y disfruta de las comodidades propias de los ricos y poderosos. Hasta que su marido le pide el divorcio y deja de pasarle dinero. Nisha está decidida a aferrarse a su sofisticado estilo de vida, pero, mientras, deberá esforzarse por salir adelante. Y eso que ya ni siquiera tiene los zapatos que llevaba puestos hasta hace un momento. La razón...
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Emma Woodhouse is pretty, clever and rich, and sees no reason why she would ever need to get married. But she loves matchmaking for her neighbors, despite the advice of her friend Mr Knightley, who warns her against meddling. Her latest success - the wedding of her governess - makes her certain that she can find the right match...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series....
59) Joy ride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.
60) Camp
Author
Series
Click volume 2
Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Olivia y Sara van a un campamento juntas, ¡están emocionadas! Pero cuando Sara ve que Olivia enseguida hace nuevos amigos, se aferra tanto a ella que la agobia. Pronto las chicas se pelean y ponen en peligro su relación. ¿Podrán entender que no es necesario hacer lo mismo en cada momento y a la vez mantener su gran amistad? ¡Todo se consigue con diálogo y comprensión!"--
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