Santiago, Esmeralda

Summary: "A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC 2023

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Santiago, Esmeralda

Summary: "A powerful novel of family, race, faith, and culture that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them. They refer to themselves as "las madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters (las nenas), have created a family based as much on friendship as on blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Backman, Fredrik

Summary: An open house becomes a fearful situation when an escaped bank robber takes everyone inside hostage. As pressure mounts, eight strangers open up to each other and share their darkest secrets.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020

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Backman, Fredrik

Summary: "Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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Backman, Fredrik

Summary: "Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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Backman, Fredrik

Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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Backman, Fredrik

Summary: A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018

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Robson, Eddie

Summary: "Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attachae to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translatinghis thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She's not the agency's best translator, but what else is she going to do? She...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2022

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