Quintana, Pilar
Summary: Una novela sobre el fin de la infancia y sus fantasmas. Claudia vive con sus padres en un apartamento invadido por plantas que se estiran para tocarla. Como todas las familias, la suya contiene una crisis, y solo hará falta que algo o alguien llegue a detonarla. Cada quien tiene un punto de quiebre en la infancia, y Claudia, la protagonista de esta historia, narra, desde la expectación y la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH QUIQuintana, Pilar
Summary: "In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: Kady makes waves in the bathtub, and plays with the fish, polar bears, and sea otters while singing the bathtub song.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FERFernández, Nona
Summary: "Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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Summary: "On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Toddler CoxonPill, Maggie
Summary: In this second story of the series, our heroes are presented with two crime threads, one hot and one cold. The cold case is half a century old, which is okay, since many residents remember those days like they were yesterday. In 1967, on a warm night in Nashville, Tennessee, someone committed two brutal murders. It’s reported that person now lives in the park, hiding under a new identity. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILAbdoh, Salar
Summary: "A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: Where do you go when you die? Not heaven or hell; somewhere else. Somewhere you have to fight to survive. Somewhere the people from the past are waiting for you--the good and the bad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MILSavage, Lila
Summary: A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story about love and compassion, the fluidity of desire, and the myriad ways of devotion. Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student in Minnesota have given way to an unintended career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVBoyd, Hilary.
Summary: Jeanie is on the brink of turning sixty. When her husband George retreats from his conjugal duties, she is deeply hurt and very confused: Has she done something wrong? Is he in love with someone else? Her pained bewilderment turns to anger as he remains unable, or unwilling, to provide answers. The bright spot of Jeanie's week is Thursday, the day she takes her granddaughter to the park. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYDavidson, Hilary.
Summary: Travel writer Lily Moore embarks on a visit to Peru with photographer Jesse Robb, where the suspicious falling death of a tourist prompts Lily to question the victim's traveling companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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Summary: A new series that’s suspenseful and humorous, with "mature" sleuths, couples with loving but sometimes contentious relationships. ONCE UPON A TRAILER PARK begins with a murder on the streets of the Beautiful Bird RV Park in Palm Hill, Florida. As residents learn bits and pieces about the crime (some true, some less so), they form and reform theories of the killer’s identity. It’s the park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC PILSanda, Makoto
Summary: Flamme spreads a curse that turns an alchemist's pride into binding shackles. Giselle and Ao make for Tour Maine-Montparnasse, hoping to find the source of this devastating magic. Facing Albert atop that modern steel tower, will Ao be able to find and rewrite the curse?!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANCDrake, Piper J.
Summary: "Peeraphan Rahttana lives her life in Seattle, unaware of the complicated magical world spinning just beyond the shadows and mist...until a violent clash outside her dance rehearsal has her literally whisked off her feet. Her darkly brooding rescuer, vampire Bennet Andrews, claims to represent a secret organization dedicated to locating objects of myth and magic, tucking them safely away where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DRAPoznanski, Ursula
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH POZMitchell, Saundra
Summary: Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon. Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular, head of student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half. When word gets out that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction MitchellHamann, H. T. (Hilary Thayer)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vernacular Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMTobin, Paul
Summary: Multi-Eisner award-winning writer Paul Tobin pens a fantasy epic of the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, a witcher--one of the few remaining monster hunters from the critically acclaimed video game fantasy The Witcher by CD Projekt Red!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020