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1) Grey dog
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd -- spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist -- accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Negative Space follows a week in the life of an English teacher at a New York private school. At home, her two children, increasingly restless, ask constant questions about mortality and find hidden wisdom in the cartoons they watch on television. Her husband tends to his plants and offers occasional counsel between Zoom calls to Hong Kong and Australia. And at school, as she navigates the currents between wealthy, increasingly disconnected students...
Author
Series
Cupcake Diaries volume 5
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Katie’s Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes. So Katie sets out to find her extracurricular niche. When Katie makes the softball team, it’s batter up…but is this the kind of batter Katie really wants to be dealing with? What if she makes a mistake and her team loses? By stepping up to the plate, Katie realizes that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"NASA has assured everyone the passage of rogue planet Malachite will be safe, but Crosby's been getting other messages—from a fortune teller and Malachite truther message boards. And now she believes that Malachite will kill everyone who doesn't ascend to the fourth dimension—a higher plane that transcends physicality. She tries to prepare her friends and family to leave their bodies behind and raise their frequency by changing their diets, wearing...
Author
Series
Click volume 1
Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Olivia está emocionada con empezar el nuevo curso: nuevos profesores, nuevas experiencias y una excursión a la gran ciudad con sus mejores amigos. Pero cuando se entera de que algunos niños no pueden permitírselo, decide actuar. Está dispuesta a hacer lo que sea necesario para que la escuchen, aunque eso signifique enfrentarse a dos de sus mejores amigos, ¿podrá Olivia cambiar las cosas y al mismo tiempo conservar su amistad?"--
8) Sakura, Saku
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
The bud of bittersweet first love takes bloom! A mysterious boy comes to Saku Fujigaya's rescue when she falls ill on a train, but he leaves before she can thank him. After this experience, Saku never ignores strangers in need of help to emulate the boy who helped her. Saku Fujigaya would like to thank the boy who helped her, but all she has is a note signed "Ryosuke Sakura." She discovers that a boy at her high school, Haruki Sakura, has an older...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Beckett is living the dream. A self-help guru with a glamorous clientele and a marriage to a handsome photographer, she¿́¿s proof women really can have it all. But one night leaves Caroline reeling, forcing her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about her lif--and what (if any) business she has teaching anyone how to live theirs. Retired professor Devorah van Buren is spending her time getting herself and her Chihuahua, Mary...
10) Pillow talk
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When college freshman Grace Mendes reluctantly attends her first pillow fight match, she falls in love with the surprisingly gritty sport. Despite her usually shy, introverted, and reserved nature, Grace decides to try out for the Pillow Fight Federation (PFF), a locally famous league of fighters with larger-than-life personas like Pain Eyre, Miss Fortune, and champion Kat Atonic. They may battle with pillows, but there is nothing soft about these...
11) Household saints
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film and Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who 'wins' his wife Catherine in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When the old lady dies, her spirit is channeled into her granddaughter...