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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
2) Lost birds
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Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 27
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 27
Language
English
Description
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagaana family but believes she is Dine based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable,...
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Series
Alien skill volume 2
Publisher
PoCo Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Government agents continue to search for a boy, Ben Archer, and his alien friend, Mesmo. In spite of the constant fear of being caught, the undercover life they create for themselves along the Rocky Mountains could almost be called pleasant. Ben loves his new school and makes friends with a girl called Kimi. But while Kimi struggles with family issues, Ben is fighting his own inner demons.
Author
Series
Last bloodcarver duology volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch. In the industrial city of Theumas, Nhika is seen not as a healer, but a monster that kills for pleasure. And in the city's criminal underbelly, the rarest of monsters are traded for gold. When Nhika is finally caught by the infamous Butchers, she's forced to heal the last witness to a high-profile murder. As Nhika delves into the investigation, all...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
Español
Description
Año 1520. Mientras Carlos I se dirige a Alemania para ser coronado emperador, el pueblo castellano se alza en comunidad, reclamando más poder frente al rey y dando comienzo a la Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla. Todo el reino se ve envuelto en este feroz conflicto. Guadalajara es el bastión de la Corona en la Castilla del Sur, mientras que Madrid y Toledo son las principales ciudades del bando de los comuneros. En Alcalá de Henares, situada...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
Español
Description
"Zaragoza, 1950. La joven Julia llega a la ciudad sola y embarazada, fruto de una relación prohibida con un hombre que acaba de morir. Aunque conoce las dificultades que entraña ser una mujer en sus condiciones, el deseo de labrar un futuro digno para su hijo la lleva a montar un salón de alta costura, con la ayuda de Rosita, una joven modista. Atraídas por su talento, las mujeres de las familias más adineradas de Zaragoza no tardarán en frecuentar...
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Series
Horse country volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Paradise Ranch, where everyone can get a second chance. Carolina Aguasvivas grew up on Paradise Ranch, which she knows down to every last pony. But things are sure to change when the new owner's daughter, Chelsie Sánchez, sweeps in with an attitude and a feisty Thoroughbred named Velvet. The mare is skittish, headstrong, and hurt -- and Carolina is determined to ride her. Chelsie, who considers herself too good to clean stalls, certainly...
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Series
A la caza de Jack el Destripador volume I
Publisher
Books4Pocket, Urano World
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Audrey Rose Wadsworth, a highborn Victorian young lady, is determined to understand the nature of death after her own mother's death and as she is secretly apprenticing in forensics she finds herself embroiled in the investigation of serial killer Jack el Destripador. Presented in Spanish.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
Series
Lucy Stone mystery volume 29.5
Hayley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 16.7
Maine clambake mystery volume 11.5
Hayley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 16.7
Maine clambake mystery volume 11.5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A collection of Easter-themed mysteries set in coastal Maine features sleuths from three best-selling cozy mystery series: Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell and Julia Snowden, who investigate a deadly art theft and a body that mysteriously vanishes after being discovered.
EASTER BASKET MURDER: Tinker's Cove businesses are clashing over a new Easter Basket-themed promotion to boost in-store sales, with tensions boiling over the grand prize--a mysterious golden...
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Series
Language
English
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Thirty-year-old Black woman Camille Fitzsimons is a talented early American history professor, working in fast-paced Washington DC, with her eyes on promotion. She's also currently persona non grata. Who knew that making an inconvenient historical discovery would see her stuck at her desk, shuffling paper? So when she receives an anonymous and very cryptic invitation to visit historic small-town Robbinsville, North Carolina and hunt for a missing...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count--the killer kind. Handsome and privileged, the Crestmont brothers have enough wealth to ensure they'll never be found guilty of any wrongdoing, even if all of Happy Valley believes they're behind the deaths of their ex-girlfriends. First there was soccer star Victoria Moreno, Robbie's ex, who mysteriously drowned at the family lake house. Then, a year later, Trevor's girlfriend died of a suspicious overdose....
17) Nightbane
Author
Series
Lightlark volume 2
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
After breaking ancient curses and becoming the leader of two realms, Isla Crown faces the aftermath of a devastating betrayal, but as old secrets unravel and her kingdom is threatened, Isla must confront her past as her future hurtles towards two possible fates.
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 6
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando la inspectora Tracy Crosswhite comienza a asesorar a quienes investigan la desaparición de una joven, le asalta la incómoda sensación de que no se trata de un caso al uso. Sus sospechas se confirman al aparecer el cadáver en un pozo abandonado. La víctima, enfrentada a su familia, se había opuesto a un matrimonio de conveniencia y había hecho planes para emprender estudios de posgrado... Alguien puso fin a sus sueños. Pero resolver...
19) La tia Cosima
Author
Publisher
Suma
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
CÓSIMA ES UNA MUJER EN LA PLENITUD DE LA VIDA. Psicolóloga especializada en el tratamiento del autismo, posee una fundación de enorme prestigio, donde se respira un ambiente cuidado y de buen humor. Allí trabaja con perros especialmente adiestrados para ayudar a los niños con alguna condición del espectro autista. Es feliz con su trabajo, con sus amigos y sus sobrinos, a quienes dedica el poco tiempo libre del cual dispone.
En su adolescencia,...
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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs arrive at their post in England where they are tasked with processing mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces, and with their outlooks changed forever, return to the U.S. as the catalysts for change in America.
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