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"'Don't let the white man take the house.' These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom, their ancestral home and 200 acres of land, from a development company, who has their sights set on turning the valuable waterfront property into a luxury resort. While fighting to save the Kingdom, the siblings must also save themselves from the secrets they've...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
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324 pages ; 21 cm
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"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
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Plaza Janés, Penguin Random House Grupo
Pub. Date
2023.
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395 pages ; 23 cm
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Annaleigh vive una vida privilegiada en su mansión de Highmoor frente al mar con sus hermanas, su padre y su madrastra. Una vez fueron doce, pero la soledad reina en los majestuosos salones ahora que las vidas de cuatro de las jóvenes han llegado a su fin. Cada muerte fue más trágica que la anterior y en los pueblos de alrededor corren rumores de que la familia está maldecida por los dioses. Acosada por una serie de visiones, Annaleigh comienza...
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Dumped in Possum Flats, Missouri, by her free-spirited mother, in 1978, 15-year-old Daisy Flowers, sentenced to spend the summer with her mortician grandmother, sets the town on edge when she becomes obsessed with investigating the horrors and heroes of a long-ago tragedy after a family connection is revealed.
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Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 x 29 cm
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Cauá and Inaé are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Here, the homes are on stilts and everyone travels around by boat--even to school! When the rainy season comes, they must leave their village and relocate to higher ground for a while. But after moving this year, Cauá and Inaé realize they've left behind something important: their pet tortoise, Titi! Unlike turtles, tortoises can't swim, and...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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When Ellie Black, who disappeared two years earlier, is found alive in the woods of Washington State, Detective Chelsey Calhoun, whose own sister went missing when they were teenagers, realizes something is not right with Ellie and it's up to her to find the answers before another girl is taken.
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Las Ratitas volume 4
Publisher
Destino
Pub. Date
: octubre de 2022.
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141 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Las Ratitas y sus padres han planeado una excursión para encontrar unas cascadas secretas... Pasarán un día maravilloso en familia, tan maravilloso que a la hora de regresar no se dan cuenta de que ha oscurecido... ¡y no encuentran la furgo! ¿Dónde pasarán la noche? ¿Tendrán que dormir bajo las estrellas? ¿Conseguirán encontrar la furgo de Las Ratitas? Los que está claro es que Gisele y Claudia van a vivir una alucinante aventura nocturna......
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Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2024.
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380 pages ; 22 cm
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When her half-sister Ophelia, the bastard child of a notorious pirate queen hanged by superstitious townsfolk, enlists in the navy under her name, nervous homebody Betsy must brave the dangers of the sea to get them both safely home and save the family business.
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Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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324 pages ; 24 cm
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When Cornelia joins Napoleon's army as a traveling naturalist with the power to heal, she meets the sister she never knew existed on the opposite side of the battlefield and together, they must use the magic of flowers to solve the mystery of their mother's death, while fighting for their survival.
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V & R Editoras
Pub. Date
[2014]
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337 pages ; 20 cm
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"Todo comienza con un trabajo para la clase de Literatura: escribir una carta a una persona muerta. Laurel decide escribirle a Kurt Cobain, quien muri̤ joven como May, su hermana. Luego de la primera carta, ya no puede detenerse, y escribir̀ otras a Janis Joplin, Arny Winehouse, Jim Morrison y Heath Ledger, entre otros personajes famosos. Sin embargo, no le entrega ninguna a su profesora. La tarea permanece oculta... como tantas cosas de su vida....
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Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
[2024]
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403 pages ; 24 cm
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"Blood is survival for seventeen-year-old Bly, who lives in the poverty-stricken human villages caught between enemy vampire and witch kingdoms. Most of the time, vampires and witches live in uneasy truce, buying human blood for their food and spells. But for two weeks a year, the ceasefire dissolves, and they hold the Revenant Games. Any human can play in the games for either the witches or the vampires. Alongside life-changing riches, the witches...
14) Clarion call
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Ravensong (Cayla Fay) volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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328 pages ; 22 cm.
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Having failed to prevent her vengeful cousin from breaching the Veil, demi-god Neve attempts to prevent more havoc and destruction in the mortal world while she also grapples with old memories, a new family member's emergence, and the delicate balance between past, present, and an uncertain future.
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Destino
Pub. Date
octubre de 2023.
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141 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"¡Las Ratitas se van de vacaciones! Sus padres las llevan a un hotel dedicado a los animales, donde organizan un espectacular desfile de mascotas. Gisele y Claudia, muy emocionadas, inscriben a su perra Alma en el desfile. El problema es que un precioso gatito ha desaparecido del hotel... ¿Necesitar̀n la ayuda de Las S︢per Ratitas? ¿Podr̀ S︢per Alma echarles una pata?" --
"The Ratitas are going on vacation! Their parents take them to a hotel...
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ESPASA (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
2023.
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451 pages ; 23 cm
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"Dos hermanas. Una promesa sin cumplir. Una traves̕a por la Rusia zarista. Fanny Keismann, devota esposa, madre de cinco hijos y člebre quesera, ha abandonado su hogar en plena madrugada. Es cierto que los hombres de Motal, una pequęa y remota localidad jud̕a, han huido del pueblo durante ąos, pero ¿una esposa y madre? ¿Qǔ pudo haberla impulsado a hacer semejante locura? ¿Tendr̀ algo que ver la desaparici̤n de su cųado, quien abandon̤...
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2024.
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"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civilwar ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after...
18) The invocations
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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
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"Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider—that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave—even trading in the occult. Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong,...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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260 pages ; 21 cm
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"Las Ramírez de Stanten Islan orbitan alrededor de la ausencia. Cuando Ruthy, a los trece años, desapareció sin dejar rastro después de un entrenamiento de atletismo, su familia quedó marcada y deshecha. Una noche, doce años después, Jessica, la hermana mayor, ve en la pantalla de su televisión a una mujer que aparece en Catfight, un reality show subido de tono. Se apresura a decírselo a Nina, su hermana menor. El pelo de esta mujer está...
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