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1) French braid
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Language
English
Description
"A major new novel from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a...
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Language
English
Description
"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
319 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen acclaimed authors--including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling novelist, and a beloved actress--join forces for a cross-genre YA anthology of linked short stories about the first days of college. Jilly cannot believe her parents keep showing up at all of her orientation events. (Except, yes, she can totally believe that.) Isaac wants to be known as someone other than the kid who does magic and has an emotional support...
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Language
English
Description
"A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood. That night, driven by Rick's determination to reclaim Sheryl, the young men provoke a violent confrontation, and as fathers step forward...
Author
Series
Denim diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
8) Raising Kane
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
153 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander resents having to care for her two younger siblings while her father works, and when he insists Kane put her family before her social life, Kane decides to run away.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
525 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
"--Me gusta tu idea, Benítez. --¿Cuál idea, profe? --Esa: que jugar es como entender el funcionamiento general del mundo. El viaje a las Cataratas del Iguazú de Federico Benítez y sus hijos ya está arreglado, pero una llamada de último momento altera los planes: una deuda de gratitud, vieja e impostergable, lo obliga a cambiar de rumbo y encaminarse, con esos dos disgustados adolescentes a la rastra, hacia la lejana Patagonia. En cuatro días...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
376 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every town needs a bad boy, and Wrangler's Creek's has been gone far too long...Getting his high school girlfriend pregnant was just one square in Roman Granger's checkered past, but it changed him forever. When his son's mother skipped town after the birth, Roman decided to do the same, baby Tate in tow, hoping for a fresh start. Now Roman fears his teenage son is following in his wayward footsteps, so he returns home to Wrangler's Creek, aiming...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
301 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Basil, un excéntrico genio inventor, decide abrir una tienda de regalos llamada "El bazar de las cebras con guisantes". Aquí vende regalos provocativos y humorísticos. En su tienda conoce a Arthur, un adolescente rebelde que crea con plantillas y bombas de pintura, y a su madre Giulia, a la que le gustan los perfumes. Tres personas atípicas.
Basil, an eccentric genius inventor, decides to open a gift shop called "The zebra bazaar with peas"....
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