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"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the...
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Wattpad by Montena
Pub. Date
2023.
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Primera edición.
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Español
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"Ruby Graham tiene dos pasatiempos favoritos: la lectura y salir con su mejor amiga, Amber. Las dos chicas son polos opuestos, pero en eso radica su amistad. Bueno, en eso y en que Amber es la única otra adolescente de su edad en el edificio. Hasta que llegan los Woods. El entusiasmo y la curiosidad de Ruby por sus nuevos vecinos se disipan de golpe cuando Kem Woods, el hijo mayor, arruina uno de sus preciados libros al tirarle encima una cubeta...
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"The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home across the decades are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry...
4) Jungle cat
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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An indoor cat brings a community together after his dreams of exploring the outside world quickly go awry. Bob is an orange tabby cat with big dreams. He lives in a safe and friendly apartment building with his human, Pippa, but Bob knows he is more than an indoor cat―he's a Jungle Cat! When he sneaks outside to chase after his dream, Bob's adventure suddenly gets too wild. It's a good thing jungle cats know when to ask for help! Vibrantly illustrated,...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is clever headstrong Dolly, now on the cusp of leaving home"--
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In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
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[2024]
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English
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"On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children—especially fifteen-year-old Etty—grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father—and...
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Mercy Watson volume 1
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Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Spanish edition.
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Español
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After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
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Apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Welcome to 1106 Wildflower Place: It is no ordinary apartment house, but you, reader, are no ordinary visitor. So, please, come in! Two new tenants have just arrived, and nine-year-old Ella is determined to help them settle in. Who better to teach them about the glitchy lights and the nighttime noises? After all, Ella knows all the neighbors. Well, almost all. No one has met the mysterious Robinsons who live on the top floor. Will a special neighborly...
12) City beet
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Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Victoria and her neighbor, Mrs. Kosta, grow such a spectacular beet garden that they need the entire neighborhood's help to pull out a giant beet.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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English
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Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
15) Cemetery dance
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Pendergast novels volume 9
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English
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After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.
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Thomas & Mercer
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English
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"Cat Winthorpe has worked hard to get what she has: a gorgeous home; social standing; and William, her successful, handsome husband. Then a friendly new couple moves into the estate next door. While cautious, a good neighbor like Cat greets them with open arms and warm hospitality. Neena Ryder isn't a fellow lady of leisure. A life coach with off-the-rack dresses, personal issues, and a husband who hasn't delivered, she's anxious to move up in the...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Primera edición.
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English
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Leah ha vivido con akinetopsia, o ceguera al movimiento, desde que era niña. Durante los últimos veinte años, no ha podido percibir el movimiento. Mientras pasea por su vecindario en Upper Manhattan con su bastón blanco guiando el camino, la mayoría de la gente asume que es ciega. Pero la verdad es que Leah ve mucho, y con sus agudos sentidos del olfato y la audición, muy poco escapa a su atención. Lleva una vida tranquila y ordenada, con poco...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023].
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English
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"Amy is more than one disastrous night of drunken revenge on her boss/ex-boyfriend's Audi— the night that tanked her rising TV producer career and led to a hasty move to London for a fresh start. She is thirty years of awesomeness. At least, that's what Amy tells herself every morning before trekking to her mediocre job making trailers at a failing British TV channel. Two years later, she's finally starting to believe it. Sparks are flying between...
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Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, and a must-have for all their avid fans! A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she's a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in Where the Body Was, a tale of love and murder...
20) Querido vecino
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Titania
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Cuando Elec rompió conmigo, lo último que necesitaba era convertirme en vecina de alguien que me recordara a él. Damien era una versión más atractiva de mi ex. También tenía dos perros gigantes que me mantenían despierta con sus ladridos. Él no quería tener nada que ver conmigo, o eso creía... Hasta que oí risas a través de un agujero en la pared de mi dormitorio. Damien había estado oyendo todas mis sesiones telefónicas con mi terapeuta....
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