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What Is Real
Par Karen Rivers. 2011
Dex Pratt’s life has been turned upside down. His parents have divorced and his mother has remarried. When his father…
attempts suicide and fails, Dex returns to their small town to care for him. But he’s not prepared for how much everything has changed. Gone are the nice house, new cars, fancy bikes and other toys. Now he and his wheelchair-bound dad live in a rotting rented house at the back of a cornfield. And, worse, his father has given up defending marijuana growers in his law practice and has become one himself. Unable to cope, Dex begins smoking himself into a state of surrealism. He begins to lose touch with what is real and what he is imagining. And then there are the aliens...and the girl-of-his-dreams...and the crop circle...La reina negra
Par Jumata Emill. 2023
Nova Albright iba a ser la primera chica negra coronada reina del instituto... hasta que alguien la asesinó durante el…
baile. Nova Albright, la primera chica negra coronada reina del Instituto Lovett, está muerta. Duchess Simmons, su mejor amiga, lo tiene claro: Tinsley McArthur, la chica guapa, rica y blanca que cree que debería haber ganado, haría cualquier cosa para continuar con la tradición de las McArthur. Incluso matar.Duchess está convencida de ello y no va a permitir que Tinsley se libre de las consecuencias. Por eso, se acercará a ella para conseguirlo..., aunque desconoce los planes que la propia Tinsley tiene entre manos. Todos querían a Nova. Y el amor, a veces, es lo que te acaba matando.El soplón: (Snitch) (Spanish Soundings)
Par Norah McClintock. 2010
Luego de que su ex mejor amigo, Scott, lo delatara, Josh tuvo que mudarse a un hogar comunitario. Ahora se…
ha mudado con su hermano y su autoritaria cuñada, y tiene que tomar una clase para manejar su ira. Cuando un enemigo de su pasado comienza a presionarlo de nuevo y parece que Scott va a volver a las andadas, Josh lucha por controlarse. Acusado de un crimen que no cometió, va a tener que hacer uso de su nueva fortaleza para mantener la calma...y su libertad. Josh had been living in a group home after being ratted out by Scott, his one-time best friend. Now he has moved in with his brother and overbearing sister-in-law and has been sent to a class designed to teach him to deal with his anger. When an old enemy continues to push his buttons and Scott appears to be up to his old tricks, Josh struggles to control his temper. Framed for a crime he didnít commit, it will take all of his new-found strength to keep his cool and his freedom.The Barrio Kings (Rapid Reads)
Par William Kowalski. 2010
Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to…
do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. When his pregnant girlfriend is hit in a drive-by shooting, Rosario has to make some hard choices. Revenge means a return to his old ways, something he swore he would never do. But unless he takes action, his enemies will not rest until they've settled the score against him.Smuggler's Cave (Orca Echoes)
Par Sonya Spreen Bates. 2010
Jake and his younger brother Tommy are visiting family at a beach house on the coast. Having already lost a…
race to his cousin Lexie, Jake can't resist a second chance at victory when she challenges him again. Only this time it's a boat race-to the legendary Smuggler's Cave and back. The ocean is deep and choppy, and the boat is harder to control than Jake thought it would be. When he and Tommy reach Smuggler's Cave, the unthinkable happens. The boat capsizes, and they are swept into the cave. Lexie comes to their rescue, but the rising tide prevents them from escaping, and the three of them soon realize they are trapped.Liars and Fools
Par Robin Stevenson. 2010
Fiona's life changed forever when her mother died in a South Pacific sailing accident. One year later, everyone tells her…
it is time to move on. To Fiona, moving on means leaving her mother behind-something she has vowed never to do. But Fiona's father has started dating again. His new girlfriend, Kathy, is a professional psychic who claims she can predict the future and communicate with the dead. Fiona is sure she is a fraud, although she secretly longs for her abilities to be genuine. With the reluctant support of her best friend Abby, Fiona sets out to put an end to her father's new relationship by trying to prove, with decidedly mixed results, that Kathy is a liar.Miracleville
Par Monique Polak. 2011
Sixteen-year-old Ani lives in the tiny Quebec town of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, where her family runs Saintly Souvenirs, a tourist shop catering…
to the many pilgrims who come to the town seeking a miracle. The bane of Ani's existence is her hyperactive, over-sexed younger sister, Colette. Ani and her mother, Therese, are devout Catholics; Colette and her father are not. When Therese is paralyzed after a freak accident, Aniís faith is tested, but when she is confronted with something shocking in her mother's past, she has to rethink her whole existence.Silver Rain
Par Lois Peterson. 2010
Abandoned by her father during the Depression, eleven-year-old Elsie lives in the garage behind her old house with her mother,…
grandmother Nan and out-of-work uncle. Elsie's friend Scoop accompanies her as she searches for her father in the city, encountering unfriendly hobos, food lines and shantytowns. After both her uncle and her mother disappear on mysterious errands, Elsie and Scoop eventually discover them competing in a dance marathon. Persuading them to abandon the contest, Elsie and Scoop lead the exhausted dancers home, where Nan has news of Elsie's father and his impending return to the family.All the Stars Denied: A Companion Novel to Shame the Stars
Par Guadalupe Garcia McCall. 2018
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment…
of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.Ana Maria Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle
Par Hilda Burgos. 2018
Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)The Penderwicks meets In the…
Heights in this sparkling middle-grade debut about a young Dominican American girl in New York City.Her last name may mean "kings," but Ana María Reyes REALLY does not live in a castle. Rather, she's stuck in a tiny apartment with two parents (way too lovey-dovey), three sisters (way too dramatic), everyone's friends (way too often), and a piano (which she never gets to practice). And when her parents announce a new baby is coming, that means they'll have even less time for Ana María. Then she hears about the Eleanor School, New York City's best private academy. If Ana María can win a scholarship, she'll be able to get out of her Washington Heights neighborhood school and achieve the education she's longed for. To stand out, she'll need to nail her piano piece at the upcoming city showcase, which means she has to practice through her sisters' hijinks, the neighbors' visits, a family trip to the Dominican Republic... right up until the baby's birth! But some new friends and honest conversations help her figure out what truly matters, and know that she can succeed no matter what. Ana María Reyes may not be royal, but she's certain to come out on top.Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
Par Dimitri Verhulst. 2009
&“A timeless novel about love, loss and village life&” from the award-winning Dutch author of The Misfortunates and Problemski Hotel…
(Aesthetica). Years ago, Madame Verona and her husband built a home for themselves on a hill in a forest above a small village. There they lived in isolation, practicing their music, and chopping wood to see them through the cold winters. When Mr. Verona died, the locals might have expected that the legendary beauty would return to the village, but Madame Verona had enough wood to keep her warm during the years it would take to make a cello—the instrument her husband loved—and in the meantime she had her dogs for company. And then one cold February morning, when the last log has burned, Madame Verona sets off down the village path, with her cello and her memories, knowing that she will have no strength to climb the hill again. Poignant, precise and perfectly structured, this is a story of one woman&’s tender and enduring love—as a wife, and as a widow. &“An intimate, unsentimental portrayal of European rural life . . . In Verhulst&’s landscape, nature is ruthless, amoral and never benign, and human memory a cruel mirage . . . His best sentences are gorgeously resonant.&”—The Herald &“Aging, bereavement and death are somber themes, yet this novel&’s treatment of them is agreeably entertaining . . . this tale of enduring love is often preposterous, sometimes poignant and, above all, consistently charming.&”—The IndependentLa mano que cura
Par Lina Maria Parra Ochoa. 2023
"Uno no es nada. Uno es un canal por donde pasa lo que es verdad. Todo lo que va a…
ser ya fue". El papá de Lina acaba de morir. Pero el duelo no será lo peor por venir, o por lo menos no será lo único. Mientras Lina digiere su pérdida y organiza los libros de la biblioteca de su padre, descubre el llamado de los poderes. Poderes que también tiene su madre, quien aprendió de su maestra Ana Gregoria a manejarlos para hacer toda clase de trabajos, brujerías y amarres. Ahora Lina tendrá que ir en busca de aquella maestra para que le enseñe de qué está hecha y en qué consiste la mano que cura. Con una escritura enérgica y reveladora, Lina María Parra Ochoa debuta en la novela con esta historia sobre la pérdida, las tradiciones ancestrales, la culpa, nuestros lazos emocionales, pero también sobre la conexión que tenemos con toda la vida que transita en lo más hondo y enigmático de esta Tierra. "Una invocación al silencio escrita con "los otros ojos": los que ven más allá de la muerte, los que presienten y escriben con la fuerza de una pócima. Una mirada al poder de las palabras y las plantas, ambas arrancadas de la tierra para ser guiadas por La mano que cura". Lorena Salazar Masso Sobre la autora y su obra se ha dicho: "Una de las escritoras más interesantes en el panorama actual de la literatura colombiana". Pablo Concha, Libros y Letras "A Parra, creo, le interesa retomar aspectos de su vida para convertirlos en ficciones y ponerlos al mismo nivel de los otros personajes que aparecen en sus cuentos […]. El tiempo que pasamos mirando nuestros cuerpos desnudos es el tiempo de la escritura de Parra; es ella la que nos pone un espejo al frente y se sienta al lado a escribir, y muestra cómo cada quien hace lo mejor que puede". Paula Marín, Revista Crónica "En la narrativa de Lina María Parra un modo de ver y escuchar se desliza en tensión con tradiciones que atraviesan los vínculos y los afectos de personajes y paisajes afectados por las marcas que dejan el dolor y la enfermedad". Mario CárdenasAranjuez
Par Gilmer Mesa. 2023
"Nadie como Gilmer Mesa para exhibir con ternura y crudeza la espina clavada en el corazón de Colombia, el corazón…
de nuestra América". Fernanda Melchor Cada que leo a Gilmer Mesa me lo imagino como un viejo lobo del asfalto parado en una esquina del barrio contándonos, con su vozarrón viril y esa mezcla de sabiduría de calle y erudición libresca, los pormenores del cataclismo que aún nos cimbronea. Recostado en la pared del bar, adolorido y sólido, da cuenta de los episodios más atroces de nuestra historia cercana sin dejar de ver la crepitación de la belleza en medio del desastre. Mis pocos conocidos de barrio que accedieron al mundo académico o al de las letras lo han hecho, de alguna manera, para irse de la cuadra, como una manera de "salir adelante"; Gilmer, que terminó involucrado en el circuito literario sin proponérselo, ha decidido "salir atrás"; no solo se ha quedado en el barrio, sino que se ha metido aún más en él, hasta un punto al que tal vez ni los mismos habitantes de su cuadra han llegado. En eso, y en la mirada sostenida y profunda, sin quejas ni concesiones al espectáculo de la desgracia, radica su fuerza y lo genuino de su obra. A diferencia de ciertos cronistas y turistas de lo popular, Gilmer no se relaciona con la realidad del barrio como quien mira para contar sino como quien ha vivido para mirarse. Luis Miguel Rivas Sobre la obra de Gilmer Mesa se ha dicho: "El amor -y más precisamente el amor fraterno- ocupa un lugar central en el complejo paisaje literario de Gilmer Mesa. Me maravilla su poética de la hermandad en medio de la violencia más terrible y de la adversidad más radical". Giuseppe Caputo "Un texto valiente, un psicoanálisis de nuestra sociedad. Memorias que defienden el pasado". Alfonso Carvajal "Esa prosa rarísima y bella que combina una capacidad de concreción bíblica (con frases que encapsulan en dos o tres renglones toda una biografía, un temperamento o una época) con un ritmo desbocado, napoleónico, fascinado por su propia música y receloso de la sobriedad…". Jaime Zapata Villarreal, El Tiempo "Gilmer Mesa tiene la lucidez original de mirar el país desde la periferia. En La cuadra narró el conflicto urbano desde la esquina de su barrio, y ahora en Las Travesías nos lleva a la Colombia profunda del campo que no ha podido ser nación". Alonso Salazar "La cuadra, con toda su crudeza y toda su ternura, nos devuelve a la época de Pablo Escobar y nos muestra cómo un grupo de chicos sin oportunidades pierden la inocencia y se convierten en sicarios. Es una lectura tremenda, durísima y al mismo tiempo hermosa". Marta OrrantiaThe Antares Maelstrom (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Par Greg Cox. 2019
An epic new Star Trek saga by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox set during the original Five-Year Mission!The…
final frontier erupts into chaos as vast quantities of a rare energy source are discovered beneath the surface of Baldur-3, a remote planet beyond the outer fringes of Federation space. Now an old-fashioned &“gold rush&” is underway as a flood of would-be prospectors, from countless worlds and species, races toward the planet to stake their claim. The galactic stampede threatens the stability of neighboring planets and space stations, as widespread strife and sabotage and all-around pandemonium result in a desperate need for Starfleet assistance. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise are dispatched to deal with the escalating crisis…which lies on the other side of a famously perilous region of space known as the Antares Maelstrom."Cat Person" and Other Stories: Cat Person And Other Stories
Par Kristen Roupenian. 2019
*Includes the story &“Cat Person&”—now a major film* A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often…
darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. &“These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.&” —Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award Finalist and author of Her Body and Other Parties &“Kristen Roupenian isn&’t just an uncannily great writer, she also knows things about the human psyche…The world has made a lot more sense since reading this book.&” —Miranda July, New York Times bestselling authorPreviously published as You Know You Want This, &“Cat Person&” and Other Stories brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can&’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for &“something mean&”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart&’s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed &“biter&” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker. Spanning a range of genres and topics—from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural—these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable—or worse, understood—as if to say, &“You want this, right? You know you want this.&”Damascus Station: A Novel
Par David McCloskey. 2021
Finalist for the 2022 ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel "Damascus Station is simply marvelous storytelling.…[A] stand-out thriller and…
essential reading for fans of the genre." —Financial Times A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer in this page-turner that offers the "most authentic depiction of modern-day tradecraft in print." (Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr). CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad’s recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat and mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at the heart of the Syrian regime, bringing the pair under the all-seeing eyes of Assad’s spy catcher, Ali Hassan, and his brother Rustum, the head of the feared Republican Guard. Set against the backdrop of a Syria pulsing with fear and rebellion, Damascus Station is a gripping thriller that offers a textured portrayal of espionage, love, loyalty, and betrayal in one of the most difficult CIA assignments on the planet.This Is Salvaged: Stories
Par Vauhini Vara. 2003
Named a most anticipated book of the year by Literary Hub, Electric Literature and The Millions A Best Book of…
Fall 2023 by Bustle. Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving aunt. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible’s specifications. In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in This Is Salvaged, unmoored in turbulence, are searching fervently for meaning, through one another.Mr. Putter & Tabby Stir the Soup (Mr. Putter & Tabby #12)
Par Cynthia Rylant, Arthur Howard. 2003
&“The chapters are short and satisfying…The antics of Tabby and Zeke will entertain young animal enthusiasts.&”—School Library Journal Mr.…
Putter and Tabby love homemade soup. But when at last they have all the right ingredients to make some, they find that their treasured stove, Bessie, is on the blink! Luckily, their neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, is happy to share hers. But watch out—her good dog, Zeke, would much rather play than cook… &“Winsome and warmhearted, these books could become instant favorites.&”—Publishers WeeklyCurious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory (Curious George)
Par Margret Rey, H. A. Rey. 1998
George is monkeying around—and having a delicious adventure! When George and the man with the yellow hat stop to…
shop at a chocolate factory store, George becomes curious about how the chocolates are made. Though he begins to follow the factory tour, soon he is off to investigate on his own… &“The only predictable thing about that dynamic monkey, Curious George, is his unpredictability.&”—The New York TimesMarksmanship skills honed to perfection, driven by necessity and desperation, Edmund Hawksworth hunted with his crossbow to keep his ailing…
mother alive, only to have her die in his arms. Deserted by his father who had left to fight the Lancastrian cause, the embittered and determined lad set out on a mission of vengeance and became embroiled in the bitter struggle for the throne of England between the Houses of Lancaster and York. There were those in 1461 who avowed that Edmund had been divinely chosen and anointed to be the Avenger of Righteous Blood something the boy himself never claimed. What is certain, in command of the Wespen (Wasps), an lite unit of crossbow mercenaries, he turned events in York's favour at the decisive Battle of Towton. Despite protests from Yorkist lords, King Edward IV (himself a youth of eighteen), gave the accolade to the former herder of pigs from Thryberg declaring him to be 'The truest and most loyal knight in all England'. With the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and the ascent of the Lancastrian Tudors the many stories of the Yorkist boy hero were supressed. However, for fifty years fanciful tales of 'The Hawk' lingered on in the towns and villages of the West Riding of Yorkshire until in 1509 Edmund's brother arrived in chains at Conisbrough Castle. Before his burning in Doncaster Fish Market the condemned heretic tells the true story of the Lost Legend of the Hawk.