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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and...
4) Sangre nueva
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 23 cm
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"Casandra heredo el departamento de su infancia, luego de la inesperada muerte de su madre. No vio el cadaver, pero lo sono por dias. Casi los mismos que le tomo ordenar las pertenencias y limpiar el espacio, deshacerse de aquellas fotos familiares que mama habia recortado para amputar su propio rostro. Bajo la promesa de estar solo por un tiempo, Casandra y su novio, Fernando, se instalan en aquel departamento aun habitado por rencores y secretos....
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
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When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
6) Mi papá
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Publisher
Gerbera Ediciones
Pub. Date
2020.
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16 unnumbered board-pages 9 (boards total) : color illustrations ; 15 x 15 cm
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"Mi papá es muy divertido y cariñoso, Cómo es tu papá?" --
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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her late husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse in the...
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm
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"Lucy's father is a minor league baseball player, a professional pitcher hoping to get called up to the majors, and Lucy inherited his passion for the game. But she's never played pitcher. She worries her skills would be compared to her dad's and she'd never measure up. And his pitching may mean big things for his career and their family, but it's also what keeps him away from home so much of the year. Sometimes, Lucy isn't sure what would be worse:...
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Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
41 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Another laugh-out-loud book from the author of The Paper Bag Princess ! Brigid really, really loves markers. She convinces her mom to buy a new set of five hundred washable coloring markers, then five hundred coloring markers that smell, then five super-indelible-never-come-off-till-you're-dead-and-maybe-even-later coloring markers. Which markers do you think she uses when she colors on herself? A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces...
10) My day with mom
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"A little girl spends a fun day with Mom going to the park, the art fair, the farmers market, and ending the day by making a yummy soup"--
11) ¿Ha muerto mamá?
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Publisher
Nordica Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A cat-and-mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment between mother and daughter"--
Johanna es artista y ha pasado las últimas tres décadas viviendo en Estados Unidos con su esposo y su hijo. Tras la muerte de su marido, Johanna regresa a su Noruega natal. Una galería la ha invitado a una exposición retrospectiva, con una nueva obra suya como pieza central. Johanna alquila un apartamento junto al fiordo y una pequeña cabaña en el...
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Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 24 cm
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"No todas las mujeres son madres, pero todas son hijas. ¿Qué le dirías a tu madre que no le has dicho nunca? ¿Y si hubiera cosas que no sospecháis la una de la otra? Mónica entrena perros para la Policía Nacional, aunque siempre ha querido ser detective, y debe lidiar con una madre que llama permanentemente su atención. A raíz de la extraña muerte del paseador de perros del barrio, se encargará de investigar qué sucedió recuperando el...
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"A sweeping and gorgeously rendered exploration of grief and yearning, following the fracturing of an multinational family in the wake of its patriarch's death. In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, devouring Grenfell Tower and the makeshift lives it houses-those of London's immigrants, its refugees, its working class. At the same time across town, another spark...
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Series
Book of Lost Things volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Description
While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
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"Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance from Ardith's Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them....
16) Kariba: 1
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Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"Siku has always called the Zambezi River her home. She understands the water--and strangely enough, it seems to understand her, too, bending to her will and coming to her aid in times of need. But things are changing on the river--a great dam is being built, displacing thousands of Shonga people--and things are changing in Siku, too, as her ability to manipulate water grows out of control, and visions of a great serpent pull her further from reality...
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Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
"Astrid is training to go to space! But as she builds her shuttle, cooks astronaut food, and practices floating in zero gravity, Dad tells Astrid that the ship's construction is too dangerous, she's too little to cook alone, and she's not allowed to flood the bathroom. That night, when Astrid dreams she's an astronaut, the challenges she encounters are overwhelming. Astrid realizes she isn't as ready as she thought. Back on Earth, Astrid turns to...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
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Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubiishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When her daughter Eden, after surviving a drowning incident, comes home from the hospital and starts calling herself Eli, the name she'd reserved for Eden's unborn twin, Lucy knows something's very wrong with Eden as her disturbing behavior escalates.
20) The Dreamatics
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Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Have you ever awakened from a dream and thought, what was THAT?! A platypus waddling through my school while singing the word farfanoogle? Well, that dream was performed by a dream theatre, and this is the story of one such place: The Lunarian Grand. The Lunarian is a magical theatre with a mind of its own, often redecorating on a whim or making it snow from the rafters. The theatre’s troupe call themselves the Dreamatics, and together they...
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