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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubiishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her daughter Eden, after surviving a drowning incident, comes home from the hospital and starts calling herself Eli, the name she'd reserved for Eden's unborn twin, Lucy knows something's very wrong with Eden as her disturbing behavior escalates.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center--a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 1
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
This Paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
In the mountains where she lives with her mother, Hilda finds many adventures and friends to share them with, including an antlered fox named Twig, a lost giant, a wood man, a wandering water spirit, and a mistakenly-belled rock troll.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young widow opens a chocolate shop in a French village, transforming its normally austere inhabitants into unabashed sensualists. The event coincides with Lent, and the villagers' rejection of traditional self-denial angers the parish priest who declares war
Author
Publisher
Beascoa, an imprint of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edicin̤.
Language
Español
Description
"Chino le encanta el pañuelo de su mamá: está lleno de círculos rojos y azules, es suave y sedoso... ¡y hace fiuuu cuando se mueve! Su madre siempre se lo pone en la cabeza por las noches. Un día, cuando mamá se va a trabajar, se lo deja para que juegue con él. ¡Qué divertido! Mientras espera a que vuelva, pasará el día con su papá, su abuelo y su abuela, y llevar el pañuelo puesto hará que se sienta más unida a su mamá."--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Is someone out to get Annie? Or is she her own worst enemy?"--
"In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. . . . Annie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career, a stunning home, and a devoted husband and daughter. When Annie's mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie's carefully...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"No todas las mujeres son madres, pero todas son hijas. ¿Qué le dirías a tu madre que no le has dicho nunca? ¿Y si hubiera cosas que no sospecháis la una de la otra? Mónica entrena perros para la Policía Nacional, aunque siempre ha querido ser detective, y debe lidiar con una madre que llama permanentemente su atención. A raíz de la extraña muerte del paseador de perros del barrio, se encargará de investigar qué sucedió recuperando el...
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
Author
Series
Jane and Lila Pool volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating mother-in-law,) and a quiet-if-unfulfilling administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents' secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet...
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