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"Stifled by tragedy, thirteen-year-old Grace Mockingbird yearns to escape her mother's controlling, grieving hand and find her voice in a small Kentucky coal mining town. A tragic family loss has driven a wedge between Grace and her mother, who seems to be silently punishing Grace by withholding her love. Grace does penance in every chore while doubting she'll ever earn her mother's forgiveness. But change arrives with the hot winds of summer as the...
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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Ofelia acaba de perder a su padre y, tras recibir la noticia, regresa a su ciudad natal. Una vez allí, no solo se encuentra con el hogar de su infancia, sino también con un pasado familiar que desconocía. En el funeral ha aparecido un misterioso francés que resulta sobre mucho más de su padre de lo que ella nunca supo. Será entonces cuando Ofelia se pregunte quiénes fueron realmente sus padres, a los que siempre vio como un humilde trabajador...
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Publisher
Diana
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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"En este libro, Vienna Pharaon nos propone un proceso de sanación muy profundo en el que vamos a comprender nuestra familia de origen, es decir, la familia y el entorno en el que crecimos, y a examinar qué cosas funcionaron (y cuáles no) en ese sistema. Ciertas disfunciones (o heridas) de esa familia de origen se manifiestan en nuestros comportamientos adultos de formas sorprendentes, desde retos en el trabajo a conflictos recurrentes en nuestras...
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Vergara
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Emilia, Yaya, Esther, Raquel y Camila son parte de un linaje marcado por los Placeres ocultos, por la represión sexual y por el señalamiento público. Cinco mujeres de carácter indomable que pertenecen a una misma familia, quienes en distintas épocas y circunstancias mantienen lealtades invisibles al clan, hasta que una de ellas decide enfrentar los condicionamientos heredados y romper con el karma familiar, creando así, un destino diferente...
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"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather... and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the...
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Publisher
Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Español
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"La casa de los ángeles rotos es una saga familiar épica, encabezada por el patriarca Angelote, que transcurre durante la última fiesta de cumpleaños que este celebra en su casa de San Diego con ocasión de su inminente muerte a manos de un cáncer letal. Pero cuando la madre de Angelote, mamá America, fallece en fechas cercanas a la fiesta, este debe organizar también su funeral y decide celebrar dos actos familiares en el mismo fin de semana:...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In 2018 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to share her suspicions that the California wildfires were started by 'space solar generators' which were funded by powerful, mysterious backers. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on "Jewish space lasers" and, ultimately, the Rothschild family. For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy...
10) Lecciones
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Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 1108
Publisher
Anagrama Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Una historia íntima y universal. La peripecia vital de un hombre en un mundo convulso y cambiante. Cuando era niño, los padres de Roland Baines lo mandaron a un internado. Allí, lejos del amparo familiar, tomó lecciones de piano con una joven profesora llamada Miriam Cornell, con quien tuvo una experiencia fascinante y traumática a partes iguales, y que marcó para siempre su vida. Los años, sin embargo, han ido pasando: Roland ha viajado, ha...
11) Limpia
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Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"Estela deja a su madre en el sur para trabajar en la casa de una familia en Santiago de Chile y allí se queda los siguientes siete años, limpiando y criando a una niña acosada por la ansiedad, cuya muerte conocemos al comienzo de la novela. Como en una tragedia griega, la tensión crece en cada página, con cada personaje o elemento: la perra callejera, las ratas, la confesión inconfesable del "señor", la aparición de Carlos, el veneno, la...
12) September
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"A place you will never forget: Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland ... where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forget: September ... when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. A novel you will never forget: Rosamunde Pilcher's September ......
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Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In this essential handbook, best-selling author Lindsay Gibson provides adult children of emotionally immature parents (ACEIPs) everyday solutions to help them deal with any emotionally immature person. Readers will find insights and explorations into the most common challenges ACEIPs face, as well as tips for building self-confidence, setting boundaries, and establishing healthier relationships"--
"From the author of Adult Children of Emotionally...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"Una escritora peruana en Buenos Aires rememora la historia de un accidente llamado familia. Accidente que se prolonga durante años como una herida mal cicatrizada, signo de interrogación que hurga, interpela y desfonda. Compuesta de recuerdos finamente hilados al tiempo de la intimidad, la novela se revela como un ajuste de cuentas entre una mujer y sus padres: narrativa filial con la que la escritura aspira a disipar olvidos, esparcir cenizas...
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Poppy believes that all they need in life is love, but the Little One keeps coming up with other things that will make their life comfortable--until it is all swept away in a storm.
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Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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As the black sheep of the family, choreographer Cassidy Bliss vowed she'd do anything to get home in time to help with her sister's wedding and avoid family disappointment...again. She just never expected "anything" would involve sharing the last rental car with the jerk who cut her off in line at the airport this morning. But horrible times apparently call for here-goes-nothing measures. Driving across the country with Luke "life can be solved with...
17) Anna's return
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Series
Pleasant Valley volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2010].
Language
English
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After spending three years in the English world, Anna Beiler returns to the Pleasant Valley Amish with a baby girl, which will surely cause a stir since Anna is unmarried. What they don't know is that the baby is adopted, and Anna desperately needs to protect it from its violent father. Anna finds it reassuring to reconnect with family and old friends. But she hasn't fully faced the consequences of her irresponsible youth. And now she may be endangering...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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¿Cómo se reordena el mundo tras una muerte? ¿Cuánto hay en toda existencia de reparación de quienes la precedieron? ¿Qué voces nos habitan? Adriana, la protagonista de esta historia, afronta varios duelos mientras cuida de su padre enfermo. También se ha convertido en una voraz espectadora de la vida de los demás gracias a las redes sociales y en una tímida consumidora de experiencias amorosas a través de una app de citas, pero eso solo...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and studious. They would do anything for each other, imploring their parents to let them be together, sharing their secrets and desires and private jokes. Then Selasi begins to change, becoming hostile and quiet; her grades suffer and she builds a space around herself, shutting Akorfa out. Meanwhile,...
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2023.
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"A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson's Red at The Bone, Netflix's Atypical, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with...
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