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1) Moon Rising
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 6
Language
English
Description
"When Moonwatcher, a young NightWing with secret powers, begins school at the academy started by the dragonets of destiny after the end of the war, she soon realizes that someone is attacking the students. Moon must choose whether to help or continue to hide her gifts"-- Provided by publisher.
2) Mongrels
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and intrigue of a Latin soap opera. When Malena Sevilla's tidy, carefully planned world collapses following her father's mysterious suicide, she finds a letter-signed with an "A"-which reveals that her mother is very much alive and living in San Isidro, a quaint town tucked in the Andes Mountains. Intent on meeting her, Malena arrives at Alameda Street and meets four sisters who...
5) There there
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
La voz que narra El obsceno pajaro de la noche fluye infatibale de los labios del Mudito, como en un viaje desde el ser hacia la nada, elaborando un mundo destinado, por la maldicion intrinseca de la existencia, al deterioro, la pedida o la confusion de cualquier identidad posible.Las viejas que pueblan la Casa de la Encarnacion de la Chimba y los monstruos de la Rinconada ilustran cada matiz de la desesperacion y cada uno de los infimos placeres...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013, ©2012
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Shrimpton family--so talented, so eccentric, so larger than life, you couldn't miss them if you wanted to. Mrs. Shrimpton wears flamboyant hats, and Mr. Shrimpton's moustache makes quite a statement. The youngsters each have a stand-out quality: beauty, dancing, singing, a sense of humor that's a laugh a minute. Indeed, the Shrimptons live to be noticed--all that is, except Maude, who prefers to blend into the wallpaper. But when Maude receives...
12) Septology
Author
Series
Publisher
Transit Books
Language
English
Description
"What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, sleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelg ngers--two versions of the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
En esta reedición de El secreto del orfebre se añaden unas páginas inéditas del cuaderno de su protagonista, Celia Sanjuán; un texto adicional que convierte a esta novela de Elia Barceló en una nueva obra, reconfigurando su significado y ofreciendo con maestría otro giro final. En esta bellísima pieza literaria su autora nos recuerda que somos palabras, que somos seres que nos narramos a nosotros mismos, creando así nuestra propia historia....
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