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Call the name of the night volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Within the forest, Mira, a girl who calls the night, and her kindly doctor, Rei, live in solitude, until a fluffy goat like visitor appears on their doorstep. Their caller’s cute facade and enchanting stories of mysterious objects quickly captivate Mira..."--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people....
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Dollanganger family series volume 1
Language
English
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"They were a perfect family, golden and carefree--until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother's vast mansion, their loving mother assures them it will be just for a little while. But as brutal days swell into agonizing months and years, Cathy, Chris, and...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills-they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives' family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale proceeds, and renovations begin. Soon after, Claire's husband develops an erotic fascination with Anna, a young...
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Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother in a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, Rosie accepts a scholarship to art school in New York City in the 1980s. One morning at a museum, she meets a worldly man twenty years her senior, with access to the upper crust of New England society. Bennett is dashing, knows that 'polo' refers only to ponies, teaches her which direction to spoon soup, and tells of exotic escapades with Truman Capote and Hunter...
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Smart, warm, uplifting, [this book] is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes that the only way to survive is to open your heart."--Amazon.com.
"Una novela calida y divertida, que despierta el intelecto y nos hace reir. Una version femenina del gran Ignatius Reilly. Eleanor Oliphant siempre dice lo que piensa. Lucha por dejar de ser alguien con pocas...
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"Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza,...
Series
Reincarnated witch spells doom volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, shut-in Sena Shirai finally works up the courage to leave the comfort of her home--only to be hit by a truck! Luckily, she has a second chance at life as a witch in another world, but the only spells she can use are "explode" and "perish." Unable to control her destructive power, Sena is shunned by the nearby villagers and doomed to live in isolation once again. But when a mysterious boy collapses at her doorstep on her...
Series
Reincarnated witch spells doom volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Liskal, the newly crowned wind dragon king, has kidnapped Sena to make her his life partner, claiming that—to her surprise—someone with her magic only comes around once every few centuries! But Sena knows that Prince Keith is deeply worried about her, so she flees the castle to take her rightful place by his side. When a frustrated Gartt confronts her, Sena learns Keith is harboring a secret that unearths painful memories from her previous life....
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After calming Liskal's rage, Sena and Keith return to the royal capital of Vekral, where they're in for a double whammy of a shock. Not only has the news that Sena is a caller spread like wildfire, but the kingdom has also proclaimed to the masses that Keith and Sena are engaged! Vekral's rulers intend to use Sena's powers as a political bargaining chip, and their posturing is immediately noticed: The neighboring kingdom of Phondona, with the fire...
Author
Publisher
Nova
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Ryland Grace es el ︢nico superviviente en una misi̤n desesperada. Es la ︢ltima oportunidad y si falla, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecer̀n. Por supuesto, por el momento, no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, mucho menos la naturaleza de su misi̤n o c̤mo llevarla a cabo. Todo lo que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho, mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kil̤metros de su casa,...
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English
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Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself. In her isolation, books are her refuge and movies her...
53) Lucy y el mar
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Vuelve la icónica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la pérdida y la esperanza. A medida que el miedo se apodera de su ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses quedarán ellos dos, compañeros después de tantos años, a solas con su complejo pasado en una pequeña casa junto a un mar impetuoso, una experiencia de la que saldrán transformados....
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Series
Blood and ash volume 1
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Apasionante y con una acción trepidante, De sangre y cenizas es una fantasía adictiva e inesperada, perfecta para los lectores de Sarah J. Maas. UNA DONCELLA... Elegida desde su nacimiento para dar comienzo a una nueva era, la vida de Poppy nunca le ha pertenecido. La vida de la Doncella es solitaria. Jamás la tocarán. Jamás la mirarán. Jamás le hablarán. Jamás sentirá placer. Mientras espera el día de su Ascensión, preferiría estar...
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English
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Andrew's day-to-day is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him when he gets home, to help wash the day's cares away. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Andrew didn't mean for the misunderstanding to happen, yet he's become trapped in his own white lie. The fantasy of his wife and two kids has become a pleasant escape from his lonely one bedroom with only his Ella...
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English
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"From two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Carol Goodman comes a new mystery, about a group of friends isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play. Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. So, when a new virus surfaces years later, she and her husband, Reed, seek refuge on his family's private island off the coast of Maine. Ostensibly safely sequestered with their five closest...
57) Pine
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"They are driving home from the search party when they see her ... The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she's gone. In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Darcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined. But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcy's first instinct might be to hole herself up in her...
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