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English
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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
Author
Publisher
Misericordia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Denise-Marie Martin's debut novel exposes the greatest longings of the human heart: to belong and be loved. Tangled Violets is the riveting story of an adoptee's search to find out who she is. Advanced degrees, professional success, and a string of failed marriages have done nothing to fill the void that has defined Lizzie Schmidt's life. Armed with mostly false information, she embarks on an improbable journey of self-discovery, searching for her...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life--between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world. Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and through...
4) Cada día
Author
Publisher
B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La poderosa y asombrosamente original novela de Levithan explora los complijidades del primer amor de unal manera única que cautivará"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Teeny-Weeny Unicorn feels like the world is not made for his small stature and one day it bothers him so much he runs off, but soon after meeting a salty gnome he starts to wonder if he might just be the right size after all.
Author
Series
Wolf in underpants volume 5
Language
English
Formats
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"When the Wolf's signature striped briefs become a trend across the forest, he feels like he has lost his identity. But when he abandons his favorite outfit, he will have to learn who he is without it"--
Author
Publisher
Arachnide
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever-more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power,...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The hurt locker: US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with that of their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement...
10) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An empowering reflection on the many things we are and the ways we relate to the world. Poet Bob Raczka's You are a Story highlights all of the nuance and potential of a growing person's identity, delighting in the things that make us special and connect us to others. Text and illustrations replete with inventive imagery and appealing metaphors show how we all live as individuals and citizens of the world. You are a living thing. You breathe. You...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.
13) Poūkahangatus
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The American debut of an acclaimed New Zealand poet as she explores her identity as a 21st-century indigenous woman"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron fist. He can't show any sign of weakness, as the neighboring Wiley City has spent lifetimes beating down the people of Ashtown and would love nothing more than its downfall. There's only one person in the desert the Emperor can fully trust--and her name is Scales. Scales is the best at what she does: keeping everyone and everything in line. As a skilled...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible -- Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years....
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with. One can shape-shift--but only part of her body, and only on Mondays. Another can always tell whether an avocado is perfectly ripe. One can even hear the thoughts of the animals in the pet store! But what these stories are really about is their young protagonists "owning" a power that contributes to their individuality, that allows them to find their...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine. Kathy loves Maine's idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can't get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries,...
18) King Cheer
Author
Series
Arden High volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Heartstopper meets Bring It On in this contemporary graphic novel that reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a queer dramedy!
When cheer captain Leah steps down months before graduation, the team is shocked. Waitlisted by her dream college, questioning her identity, and suffering from senioritis, Leah needs to hand the captain's poms off and focus on her future.
But when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Gata cree que podría ser un unicornio. ¡Se siente tan unicórnica!"--page [4] of cover.
Kitty, who feels like she is really a unicorn, begins to doubt herself when others make fun of her. But then she meets a unicorn who helps her embrace who she is!
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