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Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Eclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits - the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens of...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xv, 284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are.' So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island.
"Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory....
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich—lives which intersect across divides of class, generation, and religion.
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Philbet Lawson is born in 1960s rural Georgia with two inescapable strikes against him: he's gay and physically misshapen, both of which inform his every thought, unless he's thinking about cars, his obsession. His world is populated by an ineffectual father; a devoted though fearful mother; a rowdy but popular older brother; his best friend, a Black boy who also understands the sting of being an outsider; boorish uncles who belittle Philbet for...
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