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41) Mrs. Caliban
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1392
Language
English
Description
"In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research ... Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yates's...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cat sets out to discover what happened to her childhood friend when she discovers that he's been missing for months"--
Mary Catherine Montgomery hasn't been to Montgomery Falls since she was twelve years old-- and discovered she could do things that no normal twelve-year-old could do. Since she had her first kiss with Riley Fraser. Five years later she's back, and finds that Riley disappeared three months ago. When Noah, Riley's brother, asks for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wise old dog travels through the courts and battlefields of Europe and through the centuries in search of the master who granted him immortality"--
Tomorrow, a 217-year-old dog, is searching for his lost master. He has traveled through the courts and battlefields of Europe-- and through the centuries-- in search of the man who granted him immortality. Befriending both animals and humans, Tomorrow falls in love only once, and gains insight into...
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted...
45) Miss Meteor
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
There hasnt been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But thats not the only reason...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
To save Moonshyne Manor from demolition, five octogenarian witches, having only nine days save their home, make a bargain with an evil far more powerful than anything they've ever faced, fracturing their sisterhood and leading to a fiery confrontation with their enemies.
Five octogenarian witches gather as an angry mob threatens to demolish Moonshyne Manor. All eyes turn to the witch in charge, Queenie, who confesses they've fallen far behind on...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Refinery 29 Favorite Book of the Year • A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of the Year • A People Best Book of the Fall
“Wonderful… completely transporting.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles
In 1780s London,
...48) As old as time
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate take on the classic fairy tale, Belle, trapped in the Beast's enchanted castle, discovers that her estranged mother was the one who placed a spell on the Beast so many years ago.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer with his hotel-developer father in Puerto Rico, seventeen-year-old Lucas turns to a legendary cursed girl filled with poison when his girlfriend mysteriously disappears.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house in the forest. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to...
51) We can be heroes
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--
Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. Then Cassie is killed at school by her ex-boyfriend Nicholas, the teen heir to the Bell Firearms fortune. After the town moves on from Cassie's murder too fast, Beck...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this small lakeside town, mothers bake their secrets into moon pies they feed to a silent blue girl. Their daughters have secrets too - that they can't sleep, that they might sleep with a neighbor boy, that they know more than they let on. But when the daughters find the blue girls, everyone's carefully held silences shake loose." -- Page [4] of cover.
53) Me and me
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
It's a perfect day for Lark's dream date with Alec from school. Blue skies, clear water, a canoe on the lake. Alec even brought flowers for Lark's birthday. Everything is just right...until they hear screams from the edge of the water. Annabelle, a little girl Lark used to babysit, is struggling in the reeds. When Lark and Alec dive in to help her, Alec hits his head on a rock. Now Annabelle and Alec are both in trouble, and Lark can only save one...
54) Pedro Páramo
Author
Series
Colección popular volume 58
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
3a. ed., rev. /
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oníricas, ahondando más allá de la muerte de sus personajes, que uno no sabe en qué momento son sueño, vida, fábula, verdad, pero a los que se les oye la voz al través de la perspicacia despiadada y certera de tan sin duda extraordinario escritor". Con estas palabras iniciaba...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Roisin and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
406 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Noemi Amato receives text messages from her friend, Link, after he is found drown on dry land in the woods, rousing her and her friends to unravel the mystery held within the forest and its connection to Link's death.
Last summer Link Miller drowned on dry land in the woods, miles away from the nearest body of water. His death was ruled a strange accident, and his friends and family have struggled to make sense of it. Noemi Amato knows the truth:...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Auburn, Pennsylvania, a farming community overrun with crows, high school senior Leighton struggles to keep herself and her sisters safe from their abusive father even as she starts a relationship.
Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. Residents complain about the nuisance, the strangeness of the birds. But for Leighton, it's no stranger than her house,...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each...
59) Eartheater
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting,...