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1) Monica
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story-- actually, stories-- of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined...
Author
Language
English
Description
Three best friends--Heather, who finally sees the beauty of family; Daphne, who is trying to fix her marriage after an emotional affair; and Tori, who has fallen in love with a longtime friend, navigate the joy, and heartache of letting people into their hearts for the very first time.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Peppa Pig is a loveable little piggy who lives with her younger brother, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig. Peppa loves playing games, dressing up, visiting exciting places, and making new friends---but her absolute favorite thing is jumping up and down in muddy puddles"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When A-list movie star Charlie Bingley moves next door, the five eligible Benedetto sisters, reality TV show has-beens, see this as an opportunity to reverse their fortunes, especially when June, the oldest, catches his eye, but their community is determined to keep them apart"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La familia Altaterra acoge en su seno a un enigmático joven sin nombre, pero tiempo después lo repudia misteriosamente. El expulsado se ve obligado a vagar durante treinta años. Cuando regresa, pasado y presente se confunden, y los amores secretos y las venganzas por saldar se entremezclan con una serie de crímenes cuyo desenlace estará íntimamente ligado al destino de la familia."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Juan Martinez, on whom she has a huge crush, asks her to pose as his girlfriend for holiday festivities at his family’s winery, lonely hearted waitress Katie Smith agrees and finds herself falling for Juan’s brother Mateo instead, and must decide if she should follow her heart to a Christmas miracle.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1903 England, Kitty, the young pregnant wife of the new Earl of Stainton, lives in fear of her formidable mother-in-law, while the Earl's younger sisters get their first taste of romance with the wrong suitors, and below stairs, ambition, jealousy and revenge stalk the castle's corridors"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While their mother entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of her painful past, sisters Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha find her silence keeping them from finding true happiness, in a novel that asks whether children can ever be free from the mistakes of their parents.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world"--...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
16) Touched: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil"--
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Following the murderous events of Serpent of Heaven, Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband's younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia's burgeoning wizardly power in death magic became the reason for kidnapping and assassination attempts from her mother's family of high-powered wizards in Mexico. Yet bad news has traveled ahead of them, as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Three days prior to [a living] wake, [this novel] traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, the Dominican Republic and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces--one family's journey through their history helping them better navigate all that is to come"--
19) La ley del padre
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Un imperio mediático. Una familia enfrentada por el poder. Mucho dinero y pocos escrúpulos. Aunque todos están dispuestos a matar, siempre serán gente bien. Los Gómez-Arjona son los propietarios de un poderoso imperio mediático en Madrid. Durante la fiesta de cumpleaños del cabeza de familia, este está a punto de ser envenenado y mientras él se pregunta quién querría matarlo, sus cuatro hijos se preguntan quién habría sido el heredero...
20) Prophet song
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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