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1) Banana dream
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Iraqi, Mooz, yearns to taste the bananas that have been made unavailable by warfare. - Provided by publisher.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision....
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Princess Brianna Bright's dreams of becoming a ballerina seem doomed, she knows it's time to find out exactly what it is she's destined to do. Discovering her true talent won't be easy--but Brianna won't give up, especially not with her trusty dog, Pixie, at her side! Together Brianna and Pixie try all kinds of activities. Along the way, Brianna finds herself drawn to something she never expected. And when the palace is in peril, it's up to...
5) Endgame
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Language
English
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'I don't remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot. And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face contorted, one hand in the air. And then a body falling.' A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life. But he finds a world of suspicion, paranoia and violence. The town has made a murderer of him. The question is, who did he kill? Led by a deeply untrustworthy narrator, Ahmet Altan's international bestseller pulls...
Author
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified]
Pub. Date
©2019
Language
English
Description
With her parents both gone and her brother KIA, Dallas Winters leads a cold, lonely existence. That is, until a trio of elite SEALs rescue her from a crack team of unknown assailants, hellbent on capturing her for reasons even they don't yet understand.
Enter Maddox, the chiseled blond leader of the group, who explains that her brother tasked them with protecting Dallas shortly before his demise. Along with Austin, olive-skinned and beautiful, and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""I was riveted ... A modern-day Romeo Juliet."-Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways You want to walk away from the things that were bad for you and never look back. That's what Corinne Callahan wants. Cast out of the fundamentalist church she was raised in and cut off from her family, Corinne builds a new life for herself. A good one. But she never stops missing the life-and the love- she's left behind. It's...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A 'lusty, funny, heart-breaking' (Carmen Maria Machado) debut about a sex-obsessed young woman seeking out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead. Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Lew and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic 'Alaskan wilderness' experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Lew and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
©2021 [translation]
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the solution to his problems, most importantly the tension he has with his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on the town-with a lover, perhaps, he doesn't know for sure-Lucas is stuck at home all day...
10) Leopard's scar
Author
Series
Leopard people volume 14
Language
English
Description
"The moment Meiling sees Gedeon she knows he's a leopard shifter--just as she knows she can't trust him. Meiling doesn't take chances, life has taught her better than that. So why does she find herself rescuing this deadly, gorgeous man, when she knows she'd be better off leaving him to die? Gedeon is used to women throwing themselves at him, not throwing his injured body over their beautiful, deceptively strong shoulders and carrying him to safety....
11) Contradeseo
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Después de terminar con su pareja y tirar a la basura las posibilidades de un buen estatus migratorio, Silvia recurre a los únicos amigos que le quedan. Así aterriza con el corazón roto en el sofá cama de Javier y Teresa, y a cambio del hospedaje pacta con la pareja hacer el aseo del pequeño apartamento en el que viven. Este acuerdo los confrontará con aquello que creen desear. Entre las cajas de los regalos de bodas sin desempacar y los...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The lives of four artists are forever altered by the desires, protests, and ambitions that lure and unsettle them in this magnetic novel. It's 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarefied bubble, dreaming only of disproving the notion that in art, everything has already been done. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old...
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Language
English
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Enlisted by Aphrodite to deliver a cruel curse to Psyche, princess of Mycenae, Eros, god of desire, accidentally pricks himself with the arrow intended for Psyche and is doomed to yearn for a woman who will be torn from him the moment their eyes meet.
A prophecy claims that Psyche, princess of Mycenae, will defeat a monster feared even by the gods. She spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to meet her destiny. When Psyche angers the...
14) Leopard's hunt
Author
Series
Leopard people volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell. A harsh life has shaped him into a vicious fighter with a calm exterior, but Gorya knows it's only a matter of time until he loses all control...Maya Averina has spent years hunting the criminals who destroyed her life...She keeps to herself, stays under the radar...But with her body burning up...an...
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Una historia de verano, secretos, amor y mentiras: en el transcurso de un singular dia en Cape Cod, una mujer debe tomar una decision que cambiara su vida y que se ha estado gestando durante decadas. Situado en los bosques y playas de verano de Cape Cod, The Paper Palace se desarrolla durante 24 horas y 50 anos, mientras decadas de legado familiar, amor, mentiras, secretos y una tragedia infantil indescriptible llevan a la esposa y madre Elle Bishop...
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