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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife is an accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World. When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Dee is headed for burnout. They've been burned before, both by their bio family and the now-defunct queer collective they once called home. So when they're asked to take a work trip outside the city, they jump at the chance. Sure, it's additional work with no additional pay, but it's also an excuse to get out of town, and out of their own head. That dream is shattered when Charlie opens the door to their supposedly private rental. There's...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the snow falls, Charlie misses his brother more than anything else in the world. Daddy says that any time it snows Charlie can write down his five favorite things to do with Benjamin. The only problem is, there are hundreds of things to remember! Like playing in the pool, eating dessert before dinner, running in socked feet, planting daisies in the garden, and so much more. As Charlie remembers Benjamin, he remembers a loving and playful big...
4) Bridesman
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Micha, an Israeli expat in Los Angeles working as a ghostwriter, receives an unexpected invitation. Adella, married to his beloved uncle, has bought him a ticket to Israel and booked a boutique hotel, so that he can return home and meet with her. Years before, Micha was the bridesman at Adella's wedding. He remembers her as a rebellious young woman, and orphan and an outsider, who was mocked by his close-knit family of Persian Jews. Micha is stunned...
Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout history, totalitarians have recognized the importance of propagandizing the rising generation in order to maintain and increase the state's power. This tendency to consider children as part of some dystopian collective is sadly prevalent in the so-called "land of the free" as well. But as Children of the Collective explains, there is one institution uniquely positioned to keep the state's power at bay and protect our children"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
7) Desert song
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A family sings and plays music on a desert evening, in harmony with the nearby wildlife and the ancestors above."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kineret
Pub. Date
2012
Language
עברית
Description
Carlos de Maia-like his best friend, writer João da Ega-is an incorrigible dabbler caught in the enervated Lisbon of the 1870s. His parentage is checkered: Carlos's mother runs off with an Italian, taking his sister, Maria, but leaving Carlos with his father, Pedro, who soon shoots himself. Raised by Pedro's father, Afonso, the adult Carlos returns with a medical degree to live with Afonso in the family's cursed Lisbon compound. His very romantic,...
10) Spilled ink
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, she lets her friends convince her to sneak out to see his show. But the night has something else in store: After the opening band makes some ugly jokes about 'terrorists,' Yusuf uses his time in the spotlight for an impulsive stunt responding to the hate speech. Suddenly, simmering tensions begin boiling over in their Virginia town, where many Afghan...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Noguer
Pub. Date
©1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
Español
Description
La ilusión y la esperanza, tanto como la necesidad les llevarán una vez más hacia el Oeste, hasta las tierras de Dakota, donde conseguirán afincarse en las orillas del lago de Plata.
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of The Fire Next Time and Between the World and Me, Nephew by best-selling author M.K. Asante is a poetic, raw, and inspirational love letter to his nephew who was shot 5 times and survived - it's about overcoming odds, finding your voice, and the power of music and family"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It’s the longest day of the year, and eighteen-year-old Brandy Bailey has just received the worst news of her life: She’s been accepted to a top nursing school, making her mother overwhelmingly proud. The thing is, Brandy wants to be an artist. She knows all the risks of chasing her dream. She’s heard them from her mother time and time again. Plus, Brandy’s annoying classmate from high school, the annoyingly handsome Ben Nolan, is catching...
17) ı̀Þayim =: Life
Author
Publisher
Aı̀Æuzat bayit
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
עברית
Description
"ı̀Þayim", a novel by Gil Haravan, tells the story of a group of friends in Jerusalem over decades - from elementary school, back in the late seventies, to the present day. Historical events come and go, loves are formed and end, and in between - separations, weddings, divorces, joys and disasters experienced by the members of the group. The clever Yoel, the miserly Lior, the indifferent Yoash, the kind-hearted Avital, the dramatic Ksenia, the...
Author
Series
The Devoured Worlds volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Naira and Tarquin have escaped the pull of a dying planet, and are now bound together to find the truth behind the all-powerful Mercator family and the blight that has been killing habitable planets. But the Mercator secrets are buried deep, and Tarquin's father, the head of Mercator, knows the revolutionaries are on his tail. When Tarquin's father disappears, taking the rest of his family and the universe's remaining supply of starship fuel with...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner, could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sister’s quinceañera and her mother's unexpected passing, all of Cas’s plans are crumbling. So when a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner opens up applications for the internship of her dreams, Cas sees it as the perfect opportunity to learn every trick in the book so that things never go wrong again. The...
Author
Publisher
Con Todo Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Abuela's Wishing Tree es un libro ilustrado lírico que rinde homenaje a la experiencia de los inmigrantes cubanos y al deleite de la nostalgia de quienes han abandonado sus países de origen. Una celebración de alegría y familia multigeneracional. Visto a través de los ojos de una niña cubanoamericana que está a punto de celebrar su quinceañera, Abuela's Wishing Tree destaca cómo cada miembro de la familia da vida a un recuerdo diferente...