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"An astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a government office. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. He wanders the streets, accompanied by the bitter fog of winter pollution, reciting a monologue of...
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"Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet, despite being the consummate professional, Veronique wants little of the glamorous life that modeling affords her. The beloved daughter of a hardworking single mother, she has always preferred spending time at home or with her kindhearted boyfriend...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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Primera edición.
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"Álvaro ha cumplido ya los treinta cuando un reves laboral lo devuelve a la casa familiar: allí sigue viviendo su madre y permanecen tambien, a modo de fantasmas, las promesas de prosperidad de su adolescencia. Sin mucho más que hacer, se propone desentrañar un viejo misterio que empezó cuando el tenía catorce años: la desaparición de una cinta de vídeo sobre educación sexual que les pusieron en clase y que dio pie a otros acontecimientos...
4) Mamut
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"La protagonista de Mamut es una chica arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. Su hábitat es la ciudad, donde trabaja para vivir. Quiere ser madre, y esto la obliga a acercarse a los hombres �Cómo resistir el hormiguero humano si tienes instinto de cazador solitario? Un día abandona la ciudad, cambia de entorno y se convierte en la dueña de una casa completamente aislada. Allí solo están el pastor, la soledad y bestias que te alimentan o te...
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Alfaguara
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2022
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"Desde muy pequeña, Josefina Jarama sueña con una vida mejor y sabe que para llegar hasta ella solo hay una vía, cruda y pragmática: el ascenso social. Este Lazarillo moderno comienza su andadura en una fábrica de juguetes en Ibi, Alicante. Allí es la protegida del jefe y además trabaja junto a su madre, una comunista militante que opera en la clandestinidad y que deberá huir para que no la encarcelen. La protagonista ha de elegir entonces...
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"Welcome spring with the newest treat from Brenda Novak. This is the book her fans, old and new, have been waiting for. A big, tantalizing read!"--Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author A summer of healing, friendship, love...and a secret that could change everything. After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother...
7) Pyre
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Black Cat
Pub. Date
2022
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First Grove Atlantic paperback edition
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Saroja and Kumaresan, a young married couple, return to Kumaresan's family village where they hope to build a happy life. But they have a dangerous secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in danger. Will they--and their marriage--survive?
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'All over the world women and girls are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain, and even death. And with this small twist of nature, everything changes drastically. Ambitious and provocative, visceral and page-turning, award-winning author Naomi Alderman's THE POWER at once takes us on a journey to an alternate reality and exposes our own world in bold and surprising ways."--
9) Purgatorio
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Plaza y Janés Editorial
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2022.
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Primera edición.
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"Hace treinta y cinco años, Imanol Azkarate fue secuestrado y ejecutado, pero sus dos asesinos nunca fueron detenidos ni identificados. Uno de ellos, Josu Etxebeste, conocido restaurador guipuzcoano, guardó todas las cartas y dibujos que hizo el secuestrado durante el cautiverio. Ahora, ha decidido confesar su crimen y dar todo ese material a Alasne, la hija de la víctima, y entregarse al comisario Ignacio Sánchez, el policía que investigó el...
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After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
12) Brave explorer
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Jasmine Toguchi volume 5
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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Eight-year-old Jasmine is enthusiastic about her family's vacation to Japan, but once in Tokyo she is distracted by her older sister's grumpiness and her own blunders--will she be able to cheer up her sister while finding her own footing? Includes author's note and recipe.
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Feiwel and Friends
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2019.
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Princess Bea loves animals, and wants a pet of her own more than anything. But her father, the king, says that the Ruby Palace is no place for pets. Still, if Princess Bea finds animals in trouble, she's not going to let a little thing like royal rules stop her from helping. When Bea rescues a stray kitten from a tree, she promises to keep it safe until she can find its owner. But the adventurous kitten keeps getting into trouble! And when it goes...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2022.
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"In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws...
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Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future, together.
A deadly pathogen has killed off most of the world's population. When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie's house, he is injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. And if this new world has taught the two anything,...
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"When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius ... right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school curriculum, and Donovan is caught in the middle. Donovan doesn't...
17) The iron sword
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"Prince Ash achieved the impossible and journeyed to the End of the World to earn a soul and keep his vow to always stand beside Queen Meghan of the Iron Fey. Now he faces even more incomprehensible odds. Their son, King Keirran of the Forgotten, is missing. Something more ancient than the courts of Faery and more evil than anything Ash has faced in a millennium is rising as Evenfall approaches. And if Ash and his allies cannot stop it, the chaos...
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