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3) Rez dogs
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
6) Lucy's mask
Author
Publisher
[Lisa Sirkis Thompson]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lucy's world turned upside down. She's bored. She can't be together with her friends. But when she finds out her mom is making her a new mask her boredom turns into excitement. Lucy loves masks! She dives into her toy box full of costumes and opens a world of imagination and make-believe adventure, far beyond the walls of her room. Of course, she doesn't realize that the mask her mom is making is not a costume at all but one that will keep her safe...
Author
Publisher
Brick Tower Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"An unhappy Chinese virologist. A master seamstress who thinks Italy should be for Italians. An unemployed twenty-something who believes Artificial Intelligence is the future and America in fatal decline. And an ordinary Joe from Pittsburgh who doesn't like being told what to do by the government. Or its lying leaders. Their lives, and the lives of billions more, will be twisted together by an invisible viral intruder that knows nothing of national...
8) Day: a novel
Author
Language
English
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Aguamiel
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Qué pasa cuando un grupo de escritoras se reúne para escribir en medio de un encierro mundial? Inficciones es una antología de narrativa breve femenina. Un ejercicio de rebelión lúdica, para liberarse del tedio y la asfixia del encierro a través de la narración, la evocación, la introspección y la auto-observación. Inficciones Relatos de escritoras en confinamiento, una antología de narrativa breve femenina con la participación de Patricia...
10) Gone wolf
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Language
English
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Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room. In the present, Imogen...
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes. Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running out. They have decided to set out on their last journey together, without ever leaving the bench at...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maxine and Jonah meet as California is going into lockdown due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic declaration, and must learn how to build their relationship at a distance through personal tragedies and triumphs"--
Maxine and Jonah meet in the canned goods aisle of the grocery store just as the state of California is going into lockdown. Max's part-time job as a personal grocery shopper is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah's preexisting...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Han pasado 17 meses desde la toma de posesión de Antonio M. Lugo Olea, AMLO, como presidente de todos los mexicanos. 17 meses en los que la desesperanza y la decepción han nublado su gobierno. Sus detractores son cada vez más y el parece haber perdido por completo el control del país. Para empeorar su situación, Trump ha decidido que la hora de un encuentro, frente a frente, en la Casa Blanca, ha llegado. Mariano Everhard, su secretario de Relaciones...
Author
Publisher
Z2 Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the weirdo mind of actor, writer, and producer Emily Hampshire (SCHITT'S CREEK, CHAPELWAITE, 12 MONKEYS), AMELIA AIERWOOD: Basic Witch follows the least-favorite daughter of L.A.'s most famous family of witches, the Aierwoods. Amelia's sisters have all followed in the footsteps of their prominent parents but everything Amelia does is just a little... off-brand. A late bloomer who has yet to find her calling, Amelia uses her powers for mostly...
16) The reservoir
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions-his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter-and wonders what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There was a time when the family Kunstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Kunstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Kunstler,...
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Language
English
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Description
In a time of pandemic, two children try to navigate social distancing, distance learning, and the other challenges of 2020, with the help of family, friends, and the rainbow that unites them.
A hopeful picture book that reminds readers we are all connected. Sometimes we are separated by distance, sometimes by the way we feel. Even though the world is full of barriers that can make us feel alone, we are all just on one end of a rainbow--connected...
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