Rowling, J. K.
Summary: When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salamandra 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 RowMaddox, Jake
Summary: Years before he became the star quarterback of the Bobcats, thirteen-year-old Alex Summers enjoyed throwing backyard passes to his best friend Oscar Matthews, but Oscar is an afterthought on the team, and now he has decided to quit football and join the school play instead; Alex feels betrayed and the boys' friendship is coming apart--and it will take an honest expression of their feels to save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: An unnamed visitor travels to wartime Berlin, where she learns about the city through the things she sees and the disparate people she meets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARMuñoz, Lauren
Summary: "Someone brought a knife to the party. To celebrate the end of high school, Izzy Morales joins her ride-or-die Kassidy and five friends on a 1920s-themed getaway at the glamorous Ashwood Manor. There, Izzy and her friends party in vintage dresses and expensive diamonds-until Kassidy's boyfriend turns up dead. Murdered, investigators declare when they arrive at the scene, and now every party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MUNGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MARMuñoz Ledo, Norma
Summary: Susi tiene 16 años, una mejor amiga, un primer amor, un papá ausente, una mamá con quien pelea, un aspirante a padrastro al que odia, una abuela amorosa y cuatro mascotas a quienes considera sus hijos. Un día, la vida de Susi da un vuelco inesperado: su madre sufre un accidente y el diagnóstico del médico {u2014}fractura hendida de cráneo{u2014} se traduce como ?Por el momento, está en coma?....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH MUNMillás García, Juan José
Summary: "Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILRyan, Pam Munoz
Summary: "Maximiliano Cordoba loves stories, especially the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow. If Max could see tomorrow, he would know if he will make Santa Maria's celebrated futbol team and whether he'll ever meet his mother, who disappeared when he was a baby. He longs to know more about her, but Papa won't talk. So when Max...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2020
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Summary: Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2003
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Summary: The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Tony and his big sister can go to the indoor camping event, Books and Buddies, if they are good--but being polite and helping each other for a whole day is difficult for this brother and sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RYAGarcia, Gabriela
Summary: "In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARGarcía Sáenz, Eva
Summary: "Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational Trilogy of the White City introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer. Young Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The murders are eerily similar to ones that rattled the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARGarcés, Juan M.
Summary: Love at Four Points is based on love letters and political intrigue written in code in an old Don Quixote volume from 1844. The people who wrote them, Sofía and Federico, exchanged secret messages during The Thousand Day War (1899-1902), between the military prison and the city in Popayán, Colombia. This book is a work of fiction about the micro-history of that horrendous civil and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Juan M. Garcés 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC GARNuño, Fran
Summary: "There are places that remind us of happy moments. Zoe, a little girl who has to flee from her city with her family because of a war, remembers them before she leaves. She uses them to draw a 'map of good memories,' knowing that they will always be with her."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Nuno 2017Nuño, Fran
Summary: "Una bruja quien ha colgado su escoba para convertirse en la conductora de un tren volador, una montaña rusa con nieve en su cima más alta y coches de choque que van a donde quiera el conductor desea forman parte de una feria mágica en este libro infantil ilustrado. Mientras exploran las diferentes diversiones juntos, un niño y su padre descubren los secretos que merodean en el viejo parque de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 NUNGarcia-Aguilera, Carolina.
Summary: A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban immigrants, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH GARWilliams-Garcia, Rita
Summary: There's Trina, a pretty, self-involved artist who's sure she's bringing beauty and color to the lives of everyone around her, regardless of what they really think. There's Leticia, who skates by on minimal effort; she's more interested in her cell phone, her nails, and gossip than school. And there's Dominique, an angry basketball player who's been benched for low grades. When Trina unknowingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILMailer, Norman
Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAIDueñas, María
Summary: La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses previos al alzamiento y se instala en Tánger con un amante que apenas conoce. Al encontrarse abandonada, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, forja una nueva identidad y logra poner en marcha un selecto atelier en el que atiende a clientas de orígenes remotos y presentes insospechados. Esa novela avanza con ritmo imparable por los mapas, la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temas De Hoy 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC DUEDueñas, María
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah. Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUEGarza, Xavier
Summary: Just as Joaquin and his mother are about to enjoy their pan de muerto on the Day of the Dead, a skeleton arrives offering to play music in exchange for one tiny bite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020