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Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"To Amy, everyone has a flavor. Jemmah, her best friend from the colony, is the flavor of pineapple and jalapęo. Cassie, from Earth, is like red pepper. After being forced to leave her space-colony home when her dad was fired, Amy starts to adapt to a new life on Earth. High school seems difficult at first, but a close group of friends begin to make the transition easier for her. At the same time, Amy finds herself fascinated with a mysterious boy...
82) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In a non-threatening way, teaches seven important rules to personal safety, such as safe versus harmful secrets and touches, and gives children the knowledge and confidence they need to make smart choices about their well-being.
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La familia Altaterra acoge en su seno a un enigmático joven sin nombre, pero tiempo después lo repudia misteriosamente. El expulsado se ve obligado a vagar durante treinta años. Cuando regresa, pasado y presente se confunden, y los amores secretos y las venganzas por saldar se entremezclan con una serie de crímenes cuyo desenlace estará íntimamente ligado al destino de la familia."--
"The Altaterra family welcomes an enigmatic nameless young...
Author
Publisher
Bookshop Editions
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, agile, and inventive; Lydia Davis' newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis' sincere love and mastery of the form." --
87) The guests
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
As a hurricane besieges their coastal Florida town, the Davies family invites close friends to wait out the storm in comfort and style, but when three uninvited strangers seeking safe haven arrive, long-held secrets are revealed, one by one, until only one truth remains: not everyone is going to make it out alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
After killing her husband -- a truly terrible man -- Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group of women who have come together to heal the damage their husbands have done -- and to work out a plan to get rid of the bodies and get away with it.
When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn't be fair--not after twenty years of...
90) Summer people
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A summer of healing turns turbulent when a grieving widow and her teenage twins experience passion, first love, and a dangerous secret from the widow's past that threatens to destroy the family.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Starting in the late 1970s, a moral panic concerning child kidnapping and exploitation gripped the United States. For many Americans, a series of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children, publicized through an emergent twenty-four-hour news cycle, signaled a 'national epidemic' of child abductions perpetrated by strangers. Some observers insisted that fifty thousand or more children fell victim to stranger kidnappings in any given year....
93) Acting class
Author
Publisher
published in Canada by Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Raincoast Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina. "Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." --John Smith, acting coach. From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable...
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