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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son, she soon discovered there are no neat, labeled stages of grief like so many books insist. The shape of each loss is different; when a parent, relative, or friend passes, we grieve the person in all their beauty, their humanity, their imperfections. For Clare, there was no preparing for the anger and excruciating ache of knowing her child's life would remain unlived. This is the book she needed then....
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Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
Author
Publisher
Joy Street Books
Pub. Date
[1971]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. The book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground ... and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people--Kyoko, a Japanese...
6) Hamnet
Author
Publisher
Libros del Asteroide
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Agnes, una muchacha peculiar que parece no rendir cuentas a nadie y que es capaz de crear misteriosos remedios con sencillas combinaciones de plantas, es la comidilla de Stratford, un peque©ło pueblo de Inglaterra. Cuando esta conoce a un joven preceptor de lat©Ưn igual de extraordinario que ella, se da cuenta enseguida de que est©Łn llamados a formar una familia. Pero su matrimonio se ver©Ł puesto a prueba, primero por sus parientes y despu©♭s...
7) The lost city of Z: A legendary British explorer's deadly quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
xi, 400, 14 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration...
8) Molly
Author
Publisher
Archway Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
316 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks after Molly's death, Blake discovered shocking secrets she...
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Language
English
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Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sancctuary for their true narratives."--...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. "On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden." The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura's...
Author
Publisher
Tendencias
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control of her life"--
Llega la desgarradora e hilarante biografía de Jennette McCurdy, la estrella de iCarly y Sam & Cat, en la que narra sus dificultades como actriz infantil, sus...
Author
Publisher
Minotauro
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una fantástica novela inspirada en la cultura maya. La Era del Jazz está en pleno apogeo, pero Casiopea Tun está demasiado ocupada fregando suelos en casa de su rico abuelo como para prestar atención a las nuevas melodías. Sueña, de todos modos, con una vida lejos de su pequeño y polvoriento pueblo en el sur de México. Una vida que pueda calificar de propia.
Sin embargo, esta nueva vida parece tan remota como las estrellas, hasta el día...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Diné history and thought—a mesmerizing, original tale in the tradition of works by Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, and Gabriel García Márquez.
When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish....
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss--and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life.
Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.
No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alejandra Kim doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white "woke" classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she's not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. And things at home have only gotten worse since Papi's body was discovered on the subway tracks. Ale wants nothing more than to escape the city for...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just maybe, they'll be able to heal from their grief. Marie's plans are thwarted when she realizes a war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" is living in a cabin on the property,...
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Language
English
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"An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day ... On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a...
18) Martyr!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
19) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
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