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Author
Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won't tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesn't appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can't be matched to an identity. Six years later, still unidentified, she is living in a secure children's home with a new name, Evie Cormac. When she initiates a court case demanding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
320 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to a hospital bed in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen days earlier, reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. Carrying only a backpack, he planned to walk to Key West, the farthest destination on his map. But a...
63) Pew
Author
Language
English
Description
In a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew.
As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Oceano de Mexico
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robin es una chica que no encaja. Si, tiene su pandilla de amigos nerds (Kate, Dash y Milton), pero son realmente sus amigos o son solo las circunstancias las que los han llevado a estar juntos? A medida que Robin comienza a cuestionarse los convencionalismos de los adolescentes de su edad (tener novio, ir al baile de graduacion, vestir como las chicas populares...) y de la rigida sociedad de Hawkins, llega a la conclusion de que debe idear un plan....
65) Intimacies
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ... story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who “didn’t seek sex out so much as it came...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A surreal and satirical portrait of a pregnant woman adrift in a haunted, post-9/11 Manhattan"--
Percy is pregnant. She hasn't told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband--certainly she means to--but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now, instead of sleeping, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood, all the while fretting over her marriage, her impending motherhood, and the sinister ways...
69) Openly straight
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
70) My name is Iris
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"
Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she and her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She's moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, and...
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between...
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