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21) South: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023
Through the loves and losses of a middle-class family from Calabria, this heady, atmospheric saga retraces the history of twentieth-century Italy.
As a young man in the Seventies, Valentino leaves home in search of a better life. With age, he begins to feel an intense regret, a longing for the world and the people he left behind, which he might not be able to recover,...
Through the loves and losses of a middle-class family from Calabria, this heady, atmospheric saga retraces the history of twentieth-century Italy.
As a young man in the Seventies, Valentino leaves home in search of a better life. With age, he begins to feel an intense regret, a longing for the world and the people he left behind, which he might not be able to recover,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
California continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis's heart-pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and -- despite the destruction -- find hope in the ashes.The people of Northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history.In the 20th...
23) Adam and Thomas
Author
Publisher
Triangle Square
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
WINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries
FINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book Awards
Adam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They are alone, visited only furtively every few days by Mina, a mercurial girl who herself has found refuge from...
WINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries
FINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book Awards
Adam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They are alone, visited only furtively every few days by Mina, a mercurial girl who herself has found refuge from...
24) Genevieve's War
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this companion to the Newbery Honor-winning Lily's Crossing, thirteen-year-old Genevieve risks everything to defy the Nazis and join the French Resistance.
Winner of the Christopher Award!
It's not always thinking of being happy. Doing the right thing will make you happy.
Despite the farm-work and her irritable grandmother Memé, Genevieve thinks she may have found a new home in Alsace,...
Winner of the Christopher Award!
It's not always thinking of being happy. Doing the right thing will make you happy.
Despite the farm-work and her irritable grandmother Memé, Genevieve thinks she may have found a new home in Alsace,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for...
It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, bestselling author Mary Pope Osborne's STANDING IN THE LIGHT is now back in print with a gorgeous new cover!Catharine Carey Logan and her family have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life as the Quakers and Delaware Indians share a mutually trusting relationship. Recently, however, this friendship has been threatened by violence against the Indians. Then, Catharine and her brother are taken...
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair.
An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming-Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a...
An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming-Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed author Barry Denenberg's WHEN WILL THIS CRUEL WAR BE OVER? is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!The peaceful, traditional Southern life that Emma Simpson and her family know is shattered when the Civil War reaches their soil. Soon, Emma's father and brother are called to battle, but her family is confident the South will quickly win the War between the States. As the months drag on, though, the harsh realities of war set in....
29) In the Tunnel
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Trapped in an enemy tunnel, a young refugee experiences the Korean War firsthand in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope, a companion to the Freeman Award-winning novel Brother’s Keeper.
Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South Korea. Life in communist North Korea has become more and more unbearable—there is no freedom of speech, movement, association, or thought—and his parents have...
Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South Korea. Life in communist North Korea has become more and more unbearable—there is no freedom of speech, movement, association, or thought—and his parents have...
Author
Publisher
Nyrb Classics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The “absorbing, unsparing, and beautifully written” story of a young man’s epic passage from innocence to experience during Ireland’s Great Potato Famine (The New York Times Book Review)
On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to “the Boston states,” Fergus is initiated to violence, sexual heat, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along...
On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to “the Boston states,” Fergus is initiated to violence, sexual heat, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along...
Author
Publisher
Nyrb Classics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A “circumspect and grippingly authentic” historical fiction classic of a brief but pivotal moment in Irish history and the struggle for independence from England (The London Times)
"I haven't so enjoyed a historical novel since The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace." — John Leonard, The New York Times
Named a most distinguished work of fiction by the National Book...
"I haven't so enjoyed a historical novel since The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace." — John Leonard, The New York Times
Named a most distinguished work of fiction by the National Book...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule: Never let anyone know you’re Ojibwe.
Growing up on Beaver Island, Grand-père told Norvia stories—stories about her ancestor Migizi, about Biboonke-o-nini the Wintermaker, about the Crane Clan and the Reindeer Clan. He sang her songs in the old language, and her grandmothers taught her to make story quilts and maple...
Growing up on Beaver Island, Grand-père told Norvia stories—stories about her ancestor Migizi, about Biboonke-o-nini the Wintermaker, about the Crane Clan and the Reindeer Clan. He sang her songs in the old language, and her grandmothers taught her to make story quilts and maple...
34) Light and Air
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it?
When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.
Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place....
When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.
Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place....
Author
Publisher
Planeta México
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
A sus catorce años y en su primer día de trabajo, Ella se adentra en un mundo de sedas, tijeras, alfileres y bordados. Pero ése no es un taller de costura normal. Ni las suyas son clientas corrientes.
Ella ha conseguido un puesto de trabajo en el taller de costura de Birchwood. Prisionera en ese campo de concentración, cada vestido que diseña puede suponer la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte. Los recuerdos del pasado, la pasión por su trabajo...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Unos jardines de ensueño. Un viaje exótico. Un gran amor.
La segunda entrega de la trilogía iniciada con Los jardines perdidos.
Una saga familiar ambientada en la costa de Cornualles.
El aniversario de los jardines de Heligan está cada vez más cerca y Lexi, junto con
...Author
Publisher
Vintage EspaÑOL
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
TIMES 2020, los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos
NOVELA GANADORA DE LA MEDALLA NEWBERY
Porque la tierra los mantiene unidos, nada puede apartar a los Logan
¿Por qué es la tierra tan importante para la familia de Cassie? Los acontecimientos
...Author
Publisher
Destino Infantil & Juvenil
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
¡Nos espera una nueva y emocionante aventura! ¡Embarcaremos a bordo del Crononautilus, la máquina del tiempo ideada por el profesor Lotario Piff y viajaremos por la Historia! Descubriremos de quién es el rostro representado en la Esfinge, dónde y cuándo nacieron las Olimpiadas, la receta original de la pizza y cómo se fabrican las espadas japonesas de los samuráis... ¡Será un viaje trepidante!
39) Las soldaderas
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
«La Revolución había comenzado. Nunca más volveríamos a ser los mismos. Yo era apenas una señorita de casi dieciocho años cuando inició el conflicto armado.»
Las soldaderas narra, en voz de Cecilia —quien luego se convirtió en Adelita—, la historia de la primera revolución en México: la revolución femenina, un acontecimiento que inició de forma silenciosa a mediados del Porfiriato,
...Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Primer volumen de la saga «Cinco Reinos».
«Una de las mejores series de fantasía juvenil que he leído en años».
Christopher Paolini, autor de Eragon
Cole Randolph solo quería pasar un buen rato con sus amigos en la fiesta de Halloween (y tal vez conocer un poco mejor a Jenna Hunt), pero se verá envuelto
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