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1) Gearbreakers
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Series
Gearbreakers volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenaged girls on opposite sides of a war discover they are fighting for a common purpose--and falling for each other.
War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords. Their rule is aided by giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a rebel who specializes...
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English
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
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English
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On her sixteenth birthday, Hazel Stanczak discovers that she is the Chosen One who is meant to save the world with the aid of five alternate-dimension doppelgängers and an exasperated dragon mentor.
When Hazel Stanczak was born, an interdimensional rift tore open near her family's home. Government investigators found that if Hazel strayed too far, the rift would become volatile and fling things from other dimensions onto their front lawn-- or it...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant black comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman's hairbrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make some soup and finally get some peace and quiet."--
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old queer Indian American, Maya, who falls for her white, wealthy, and complicated female classmate, Juneau, is asked to join a secret society of artists, vandals, and mischief-makers who fight for justice at their school.
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Burning kingdoms volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a dark journey to save their empire. Imprisoned by her tyrannical brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless...
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English
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"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
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English
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"This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime--and long-distance--crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back into her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong years ago, and never replied to any of Elsie's letters...
10) In the key of us
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends.
11) Cinco esquinas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"La idea de esta novela comenzó con una imagen de dos señoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situación erótica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia policial, casi un thriller, y el thriller se fue transformando en una especie de mural de la sociedad peruana en los últimos meses o semanas de la dictadura de Fujimori y Montesinos. Me gustó la idea de que la historia se llamase Cinco esquinas...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Half-Black witch Shay Johnson is cast as the lead in her school musical and must decide between exposing her predatory drama teacher and getting the scholarship she desperately needs.
Now that she's a junior at T.K. Anderson Magical Magnet School, Shay Johnson is one step closer to winning the full-ride Brockton Scholarship-- her ticket into the university of her dreams. Her competition? Ana freaking �Alvarez. The key to victory? Impressing Mr....
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English
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Mehar did not come to India planning to break up her estranged father's wedding, but she is convinced that socialite Naz is only after his money and title; except she soon begins to question many of her assumptions about her parents' relationship, and her own place in his world--especially when she begins to fall in love with Sufiya, her grandmother's assistant.
Mehar hasn't been back to India since she and her mother moved away when she was only...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Emma Nolan solo quiere una cosa antes de graduarse: bailar con su novia en el baile de graduación. Pero en su pequeña ciudad de Edgewater, Indiana, es como pedir la luna. Alyssa Greene es la chica "it" de su escuela secundaria: popular, directora del consejo estudiantil e hija del presidente de la PTA. Ella también tiene un secreto. Ha estado saliendo con Emma durante el último año y medio. Cuando se corre la voz de que Emma planea traer a una...
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