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Series
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An unforgettably creepy child narrator weaves uncanny tales about her new stepmother in this feminist horror novella that introduces a unique new voice in Japanese literature. A young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his secret lover into the family home to care for her. As she obsessively tries to curate a pristine life, this new interloper remains indifferent to the girl, who seems to record her every move - and she realizes...
Author
Publisher
Rare Machines
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"South is a haunting and hallucinatory re-imagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual's unsuccessful quest for truth, agency, and understanding. B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers...
3) Phantom
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Would you sell your hand for a million dollars? Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her unstable ex in exchange for her left hand, she can't afford to refuse.Immediately following the amputation, she's racked with insufferable phantom limb pain. Desperate for relief, she enrolls in an experimental drug trial. But this drug has a peculiar...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So beginsBessie.Drawing on biographical and historical sources,Bessiereimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, who,...
5) Mudflowers
Author
Publisher
Rare Machines
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her mother's death, Sophie navigates a complicated dynamic between her oldest love, Alex, and newest love, Maggie. Dynamics unfold in surprising ways, leading Sophie back to her home in Newfoundland to reconcile her past and her future.
Author
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting, running away from their fears, their parents and the future, fighting to exist, killing time. They drink, steal cars, feel wrecked, play it cool, longing for real love and true freedom. Startlingly raw...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Carnegie Wong's mother never approved of her son's marriage to an American, and when she arranges for a mainland Chinese nanny for Wong and Blondie's children, Blondie fears her mother-in-law had an ulterior motive--even from the grave.
Author
Series
Rosie Ferguson volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old tennis champion Rosie Ferguson, her mother Elizabeth, and her stepfather James, all struggle with their own heartbreaks along the road to becoming a united family.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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1418 - Pre-Columbian Mexico Fifteen-year old crown prince Acolmiztli wants nothing more than to see his city-state of Tetzcoco thrive. A singer, poet, and burgeoning philosophical mind, he has big plans about infrastructure projects and cultural initiatives that will bring honor to his family and help his people flourish. But the two sides of his family, the kingdoms of Mexico and Acolhuacan, have been at war his entire life - after his father risked...
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thornwood Village, 1910. Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor, Harold Griffin-Krauss, translate 'fairy stories' from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens the future of her community and her very way of life. New York, 2010. Captivated by the land of myth, folklore and superstition, Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast...
Author
Series
Publisher
Persigo Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, raw from the death of his lover from AIDS, becomes involved with a young man who is murdered after spending the night with Rios. Rios becomes a suspect in the murder. In the process of clearing himself, he is drawn into the search for a serial killer who preys on young gay men in West Hollywood. He finds himself up against a homophobic cop, a hostile DA and a conspiracy that reaches into Hollywood's power elite....
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 12
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ella Mentry School hires a health teacher who tries to force the students to eat healthy foods and exercise, whether they want to or not.
13) Black rain
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A novel about the day the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and how the lives of a Japanese businessman, his wife, and their niece changed.
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