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Author
Series
New historicism ; 24
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
7702) El manos de las Furias
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Lotto and Mathilde are on their way to financial success when a complicated twist in their marriage reveals a shocking revelation.
Author
Series
Juana and Lucas ; 2
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
℗2019.
Language
English
Description
"Juana's life is just about perfect. She lives in the beautiful city of Bogotá with her two most favorite people in the world: her mami and her dog, Lucas. Lately, though, things have become a little less perfect. Mami has a new hairdo and a new amigo named Luis with whom she has been spending a lot of time. He is kind and teaches Juana about things like photography and jazz music, but sometimes Juana can't help wishing things would go back to the...
7704) Su último día
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La nueva novela de suspenso nacional del autor más vendido del New York Times de The Couple Next Door y Someone We Know In Upstate New York, Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando a la vida con sus bebés gemelos con cólicos. Las niñas son un puñado, pero a Stephanie no le importa ser una ama de casa, cuidándolas mientras Patrick hace de nueve a cinco para pagar las cuentas. Cuando una mujer del pasado de Patrick se les acerca inesperadamente,...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 361
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity of history, community, and place in the American Southwest....
7706) The circle of the day
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Description
Story of a woman's tenth wedding anniversary and her bitterness and understanding of herself and others.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape." --
"La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series, written by American Indian Youth Literature Honor-winning author Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe), and illustrated by artist Tara Audibert (Wolastoqey), the irrepressible Jo Jo is determined to learn how to be fancy before her aunts wedding, with her own particular flair. Filled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series is filled with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating....
7710) Paper princess
Author
Series
Publisher
EverAfter Romance
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ella Harper has spent her whole life moving from town to town with her mother, struggling to make ends meet. After her mother dies, Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. It's a life of wealth, excess, and deception. And Reed Royal is determined to send her back to the slums she came from. He says she doesn't belong with the Royals. If Ella is going to survive...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Jerusalem is the story of a single family--three generations of very different people--as they are swept up in the chaos of nation-making from 1940 to 1948. Love, death, faith, family, and politics form the perilous mix that fuels this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel about the events surrounding the creation of the modern Israeli state."--Dust jacket.
7712) Big move to a tiny house
Author
Series
Twig and Turtle ; 1
Publisher
Pixel + Ink
Language
English
Formats
Description
Family, friendship, new school challenges, and a rather large dog problem combine as sisters adjust to their new tiny house life in this charming chapter book series starter from award-winning author Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Perfect for fans of Ivy and Bean and Judy Moody. In a tiny house, 3 shirts + 3 pants = 9 different outfits. Eight- and six-year-old sisters Twig and Turtle are excited and curious about their new small town in Colorado. And...
7714) Sense & sensibility
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Presents, in graphic novel format, a tale of English country manners in which two sisters, one sensible and one impulsive, wrestle with their attractions to unsuitable men after they are forced to leave their family home following the death of their father.
7715) Morning, noon, and night
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
The narrator is Henry Worthington, founder and head of an eminently successful management consultant firm. Come to be sixty-odd, and moved to wonder what if any meaning his life may have, he undertakes a review of it.
7716) The Japanese twins
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1912.
Language
English
Description
One in a series of stories that introduce a period of history and a geographical location through the adventures of twins. Here Japanese twins Taro and Take learn their decidedly different places in Japanese society and especially why their birthdays are celebrated on different days.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night?While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction,...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Hannah Webber fears she will never be a mother, but her prayers are finally answered when she gives birth to a son. In an era of high-stakes parenting, nurturing Sam's intellect becomes Hannah's life purpose. She invests body and soul into his development, much to the detriment of her marriage. She convinces herself, however, that Sam's acceptance at age fourteen to the most prestigious of New England boarding schools overseen by an illustrious headmaster,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
The Old Gray Homestead: The Gray's farm is falling apart until a wealthy widow named Sylvia comes to stay with the family. She helps rebuild the farm, pays for trips and music lessons. Austin Gray is falling in love with her, as are several other men. Can a plain farmer and a society woman find happiness?
The Career of David Noble: rom the very beginning, David Noble was a man possessed - by a burning ambition to be a doctor, hungry for money, and...
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