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Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of clues points her to Carmilla's, a mysterious nightclub in the heart of her neighborhood, Chinatown. There she falls for the next likely target, landing her at the...
1522) The undoing
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Grace and Jonathan Fraser have the life they've always wanted: she's a successful therapist, he's an acclaimed pediatric oncologist, and their son attends an elite private school in Manhattan. But for Grace, everything unravels overnight with a violent death and a missing husband.
1523) La pirámide roja
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
Español
Description
"Todo empezó en Londres, la noche en que nuestro padre hizo explotar el Museo Británico con un extraño conjuro. Fue entonces cuando nos enteramos de que, además de un reconocido arqueólogo, era una especia de mago del antiguo Egipto. Rodeado de valiosas antiguedades, empezó a entonar extrañas palabras. Algo debió de salir mal porque la sala quedó reducida a escombros; Set, el dios del caos, apareció de la nada envuelto en llamas y a nuestro...
1524) The okay witch
Author
Series
Okay witch volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she's about to discover that witches aren't just the stuff of movies, books, and spooky stories. When some eighth-grade bullies try to ruin her Halloween, something really strange happens. It turns out that Founder's Bluff, Massachusetts, has a centuries-old history of witch drama, and surprise: Moth's family is at the center of it all! When Moth's new powers show up, things get totally out-of-control....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano catches a stubborn cold and is subsequently diagnosed with leukemia. His only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. After an exhaustive search, a match turns up three thousand miles away in the form of a most unlikely donor: Joseph Neiman, a rabbi in Brooklyn, New York, who is suffering from a debilitating crisis of faith. As Luca's young nurse, Nina Vocelli, risks her career...
1526) Trolls band together
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers: Floyd, John Dory, Spruce, and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd.
1527) Jane Eyre
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruth has been single-handedly raising four young daughters and running her family's Indiana farm for eight long years, ever since her husband, John, fell into a comatose state, infected by the infamous "sleeping sickness" devastating families across the country. If only she could trade places with her older sister, June, who is the envy of everyone she meets: blonde and beautiful, married to a wealthy doctor, living in a mansion in St. Paul. And...
1529) Miguel's music
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Miguel loves music, but his family says it is not allowed. Will he ever change their minds?
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The smoldering embers of animosity between humans and Arcanics have reignited, and a new war has engulfed the Known World. Maika Halfwolf realizes another war, of cosmic proportions is fast approaching - but she needs to survive this battle first. In this fifth volume of Monstress, collecting issues 25-30, Maika must put aside personal betrayals and private revelations to defend the walled Arcanic city of Ravenna, the first major target of the Federation...
1531) Un revés inesperado
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Los miembros de la familia Delaney se quieren con locura...es solo que a veces se asesinarían. Para todos los que los conocen, los Delaney son una familia envidiable. Incluso después de todos estos años, los padres, Stan y Joy, siguen teniendo una química evidente y continúan arrasando en las pistas de tenis. Y ahora que han vendido su exitosa academia tienen todo el tiempo del mundo para relajarse y disfrutar de la vida. Sus cuatro hijos nunca...
1532) al-Amrīkīyūn al-ākhirūn
Author
Publisher
al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm-Nāshirūn
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious...
1533) Pale: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ... The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd's invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household. The secrets of the house are plentiful yet...
1534) The sins of the father
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage España
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
1536) Jane Eyre
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre is the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester, lord of an English manor house called Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret.
1537) Dirty laundry
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Magazine writer Patrick is everything a family could hope for-- he's handsome, polite and a big success in the Big Apple. But when he returns home to his traditional, rural Southern family, two worlds collide with a sudden jolt. As one shocking truth after another is revealed, Patrick and his eccentric family struggle to respect one another.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson lives in Minnesota with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-grandson. When her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
1540) Black Canary: ignite
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance knows exactly what she wants, who she is, and where she's going. First, she'll win the battle of the bands with her two best friends, then she'll join the Gotham City Junior Police Academy so she can solve crimes just like her dad. Who knows? Her rock-star group of friends may even save the world, but first they'll need to agree on a band name. When a mysterious figure keeps getting in the way of Dinah's goals and threatens...
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