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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Eva Santos Moon is a burgeoning Chicana artist who practices the ancient, spiritual ways of bruje̕ra and curanderisma, but she's at one of her lowest points--suffering from disorienting blackouts, creative stagnation, and a feeling of disconnect from her magickal roots. When her husband, a beloved university professor and the glue that holds their family together, is taken into custody for the shocking murder of their friend, Eva doesn't know whom...
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Tokyo, seven students are hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face their family and friends--until the moment they find the mirrors in their bedrooms are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives into to a wondrous castle straight out of a Grimm's fairy tale. As time passes, only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved. As they struggle to abide by the rules of the game, a moving story unfolds,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Veronica thinks shes happy. But with fight after fight, night after night, she knows that something isnt right anymore. Then her husband busts her researching witchcraftand her picturesque suburban life is turned upside down. As her marriage falls apart, she knows that for her own sake and for the sake of her small daughter, something has to change. The Trouble With Becoming A Witch is about what happens when a woman decides to stop living the life...
Author
Publisher
Arachnide
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the Boryas family, who mind a lighthouse and live in isolation until their lives are altered when young Noé arrives in Sitjaq after fifteen years of wandering. Her dresses are torn, her manners are savage. Noé marries into the family and bears seven children that she leaves to the care of Sevastien-Benedikt, an elder and kind of giant on whose hunting and gathering the family depends. Noé then moves into a cabin on her own and covers...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Anna O'Brien inherited several gifts from her late Grandma Bea: culinary superpowers, a bakery in a charming Southern town, and a mysterious box with a note: Open the box only when you need to. You'll know exactly when you do, and you'll know what to do with it. I love you. The night her presumed fiancé crushes her dreams, Anna opens the box and finds "magic sugar" inside, along with a recipe to bake "the perfect man." Encouraged by her best friend...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sarah Jac Crow and James Holt have fallen in love working in the endless fields that span a bone-dry Southwest in the near-future--a land that's a little bit magical, deeply dangerous, and bursting with secrets. To protect themselves, they've learned to work hard and--above all--keep their love hidden from the people who might use it against them. Then, just when Sarah Jac and James have settled in and begun saving money for the home they dream of...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasnt been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year. Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with her best friend, Victoria, but is too afraid to admit her true feelings. Despite Mercedess creative block, art starts to show up in unexpected ways. A piano appears on her front lawn one morning, and...
69) Miraculum
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1922, two travelling carnival workers engage in a dangerous game of deception after a series of tragedies strike the company.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Solitario Cisneros creía que su vida hacía tiempo que había terminado. Perdió a su esposa, su familia, e inclusive a su país hacia finales de la década de 1870 cuando el Rio Grande cambió su curso dejando al pueblo mexicano de Olvido del lado tejano de la frontera. Había hecho las paces, si bien a regañadientes, con el hecho de tener que abandonar su pistola y su insignia, y retirarse a su rancho a convivir con caballos y fantasmas. Pero...
Author
Series
Witchlore volume 1
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emerson Wilde has built the life of her dreams. Youngest Chamber of Commerce president in St. Cyprian history, successful indie bookstore owner, and lucky enough to have her best friends as found family? Done. But when Emerson is attacked by creatures that shouldn't be real, and kills them with what can only be called magic, Emerson finds that the past decade of her life has been...a lie. St. Cyprian isn't your average Midwestern river town--it's...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Every seven years, an important thing, like scent, disappears from the town of Sterling and Aila is determined to find the cause and how her recently-deceased mother was involved.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A dead witch. A bitter curse. A battle of magic. Some people knit socks by the fire at night. Gyssha Blackbone made monsters. But the old witch is dead now, and somehow it's Elodie's job to clean up the mess. When she was hired at Black Oak Cottage, Elodie had no idea she'd find herself working for a witch; and her acid-tongued new mistress, Aleida, was not expecting a housemaid to turn up on her doorstep. Gyssha's final curse left Aleida practically...
74) Dogeaters
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 20cm.
Language
English
Description
Finalist for the National Book Award and a 2015 Wall Street Journal Book Club selection: An intense portrait of the Philippines in the late 1950s Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country's sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital's elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country's president and first lady...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cottonwood Hollow, Kansas, is a strange place. For the past century, every girl has been born with a special talent, like the ability to fix any object, heal any wound, or find what is missing. To best friends Rome, Lux, and Mercy, their abilities often feel more like a curse. Rome may be able to fix anything she touches, but that won't help her mom pay rent or make it easier to confide in Lux and Mercy about what's going on at home. Lux's ability...
76) Folklorn
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US Edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend - an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow - comes to claim her at last.Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed...
77) Haunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A mysterious stranger is hunting Anne wherever she goes. No one sees her but Anne. When she searches for the woman's identity, Anne exposes secrets about her own life--things that will change her life forever. And when the gorgeous Ethan returns, her life gets a lot more complicated. Anne thought her journey with the Romanov family had ended, but it was just the beginning...