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Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide for girls of color looking to find their voice and claim space as they prepare for high school, college, and their careers...When you're a girl of color, figuring out how to find your voice-- and make sure everyone around you can hear it-- is essential. Harts walks you through her own successes, and the missteps that helped her grow. She offers practical advice on choosing friends, finding mentors, and setting boundaries for healthy relationships,...
1802) The winner's game
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
491 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since seventeen-year-old Ann Bennett was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition two years ago, her family has been pulling apart. Ann and her two younger siblings fight constantly, as do their parents. When the doctors announce that Ann's only hope of survival is a heart transplant by the end of the summer, the Bennetts decide to wait for news of a donor at a family vacation home on the Oregon coast near Haystack Rock. But rather than...
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag.
Language
English
Description
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Versión expandida.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 1/2 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Cuando Rosaleen, la brava madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas más racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres.
Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four under tragic circumstances...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
Author
Publisher
Alred K. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Muzoon was fourteen years old when her family made the wrenching decision to leave their home in Syria. War had begun. Peaceful protests were met with shootings. Next, bombs were flying overhead. Even still, Muzoon wanted to stay. What would become of her in a refugee camp? Would there be a school there? Would she ever be able to go home again? In this inspiring memoir, Muzoon shares how she grew up as a refugee. And how she spoke up for what she...