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By Erik Christian Haugaard. 1984
When the powerful Lord Takeda's soldiers sweep across the countryside, killing and plundering, they spare the boy Taro's life and…
take him along with them. Taro becomes a servant in the household of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he meets Togan, a cook, who teaches Taro and makes his new life bearable. But when Togan is murdered, Taro's life takes a new direction: He will become a samurai, and redeem the family legacy that has been stolen from him.By Sara Shepard, Lilia Buckingham. 2020
Get ready to delve into the world of teen influencers in this twisty mystery from the #1 New York Times…
bestselling author of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Sara Shepard and seventeen-year-old actress and social media personality Lilia Buckingham.After a video she makes goes viral, everyone knows Delilah Rollins. And now that she's in LA, Delilah's standing on the edge of something incredible. Everything is going to change. She has no idea how much. Jasmine Walters-Diaz grew up in the spotlight. A child star turned media darling, the posts of her in her classic Lulu C. rainbow skirt practically break the Internet. But if the world knew who Jasmine really was, her perfect life? Canceled.Fiona Jacobs is so funny--the kind of girl for whom a crowd parts--no wonder she's always smiling! But on the inside? The girl's a hot mess. And when someone comes out of the shadows with a secret from her past, it's one that won't just embarrass Fiona: it will ruin her.Who wouldn't want to be Scarlet Leigh? Just look at her Instagram. Scarlet isn't just styled to perfection: she is perfection. Scarlet has a gorgeous, famous boyfriend named Jack and there's a whole fanbase about their ship. To everyone watching online, their lives seem perfect . . . but are they really? The sun is hot in California . . . and someone's going to get burned.By Monica Rodden. 2020
Fans of Sadie and You will be riveted by this compulsively readable new thriller about a survivor of dating violence…
who uses her newfound awareness of everyday evil to hunt for a killer.When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from a night she can barely piece together, dreads remembering, and refuses to talk about. She tries to get back to normal, but just days later the murder of someone close to her tears away any illusion of safety. Catherine feels driven to face both violent events head on in hopes of finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice with the help of her childhood friend, Henry. Then a stranger from college arrives with her lost coat, missing driver's license--and details to help fill in the gaps in her memory that could be the key to solving both mysteries. But who is Andrew Worthington and why is he offering to help her? And what other dangerous obsessions is her sleepy town hiding? Surrounded by secrets and lies, Catherine must unravel the truth--before this wolf in sheep's clothing strikes again.By Danielle McLaughlin. 2021
In this &“delicate slow burn of a novel&” (Jan Carson), a woman&’s marriage and career are threatened by an old…
indiscretion just as she receives the opportunity of a lifetime—from the award–winning author of the &“extraordinary&” (Colum McCann) Dinosaurs on Other Planets. Nessa McCormack&’s marriage is coming back together again after her husband&’s affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibition for a beloved artist, the renowned late sculptor Robert Locke. But the arrival of two enigmatic outsiders imperils both her personal and professional worlds: A chance encounter with an old friend threatens to expose a betrayal Nessa thought she had long put behind her; and at work, an odd woman comes forward with a mysterious connection to Robert Locke&’s life and his most famous work, the Chalk Sculpture. As Nessa finds the past intruding on the present, she realizes she must decide what is the truth, whether she can continue to live with a lie, and what the consequences might be were she to fully unravel the mysteries in both the life of Robert Locke and her own. In this gripping and wonderfully written debut, Danielle McLaughlin reveals profound truths about love, power, and the secrets that define us.By Eley Williams. 2020
An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent, chronicling the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the…
young woman who decodes his trail of made-up words a century later. Will enthrall readers of CS Richardson, Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.Peter Winceworth is a lexicographer in Victorian-era London, toiling away at the letter "S" for a multi-volume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Secretly, he begins to insert unauthorized fictitious entries into the dictionary in an attempt to assert some artistic freedom.In the present day, Mallory is a young intern employed by the same publisher. Her task is to uncover these mountweazels before the dictionary is digitized. She also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. Why, she wonders, is the change in the definition of "marriage" so upsetting to the caller? And does the caller really intend for the publisher's staff to "burn in hell"?As these two narratives, characters and times entwine, both Winceworth and Mallory discover how they might negotiate the complexities of the nonsensical, relentless, untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable path we call life. An exhilarating debut from a formidably brilliant young writer, The Liar's Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity and joy of language.By Roald Dahl. 1964
James y el melocotón gigante es una historia de Roald Dahl, el gran autor de literatura infantil. James es un…
niño huérfano que vive con dos tías muy severas que le hacen la vida imposible. Pero un día, un extraño personaje le regala un cucurucho de bolitas mágicas que hacen crecer sorprendentemente al viejo melocotonero del patio. Montado en un melocotón gigante, James inicia un viaje fascinante por el mundo entero...By Leonora Carrington. 1991
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and…
Luis Buñuel.Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth&’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is &“hard of hearing&” but &“full of life.&”By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2007
The classic novel that continues to haunt our understanding of ambition, love, entitlement, and the American Dream—with an exclusive discussion…
guide and an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris Nick Carraway is an aspiring writer; his cousin, Daisy, is married to the fabulously wealthy Tom Buchanan. Their neighbor, Jay Gatsby, throws extravagant and extraordinary parties in the exclusive and hallowed neighborhood of West Egg. The entanglements between these four characters form the backbone of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest work. When it was first published in 1925, The Great Gatsby was heralded “a mystical, glamorous story of today” (The New York Times). Since then, the story of Jay Gatsby and his love for the treacherous, effervescent Daisy Buchanan has become a staple in high school and college classrooms, a beloved favorite of readers everywhere, and the #2 entry in the Modern Library’s own list of the best novels of the twentieth century.By Kelsey Hartwell. 2021
Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth, this teen romance is about a girl…
who follows a trail of paper hearts from her mystery admirer and learns that sometimes love can find you in mysterious ways. Ella&’s life was picture perfect. She had a circle of close friends, a jam-packed social life, and an amazing boyfriend. But then something completely unexpected happened: a car accident after a Valentine&’s Day dance. When Ella woke up in the hospital, she couldn&’t remember the accident . . . or anything about the weeks before it, including the reason she broke up with her boyfriend. Now, a year later, she begins receiving paper hearts from a mysterious admirer who seems to have the answers she craves. Ella is intrigued. The hearts contain clues to help Ella remember her life before . . . and take her on a journey she never imagined. Following the paper hearts is the most spontaneous thing Ella has ever done . . . but will she find love?Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.By Julie Sykes. 2019
What if your best friend was a unicorn? Chapter book readers are flocking to this magical series, where everyone is…
paired with their very own unicorn!Freya wants to make the perfect birthday present for her unicorn, Honey. If Honey loves her present enough, maybe she and Freya will finally bond. But Freya's friends need help planning the best party ever, and Freya doesn't have time to do both. Then someone tries to ruin the party before it can even happen! Can Freya finish Honey's present in time, and save the party?By Sam Tschida. 2020
Indie Next and Library Reads PickOne of Cosmopolitan&’s &“Best New Books Coming Out in 2021&”One of POPSUGAR&’s &“Best New Books…
Coming Out in 2021&”A Millennial with amnesia uses her Instagram account to piece together her identity in this hilarious and whip-smart comedy about the ups and downs of influencer culture.Mia might look like a Millennial but she was born yesterday. Emerging from a coma with short-term amnesia after an accident, Mia can&’t remember her own name until the Siri assistant on her iPhone provides it. Based on her cool hairstyle (undercut with glamorous waves), dress (Prada), and signature lipstick (Chanel), she senses she&’s wealthy, but the only way to know for sure is to retrace her steps once she leaves the hospital. Using Instagram and Uber, she arrives at the pink duplex she calls home in her posts but finds Max, a cute, off-duty postdoc supplementing his income with a house-sitting gig. He tells her the house belongs to JP, a billionaire with a chocolate empire. A few texts later, JP confirms her wildest dreams: they&’re in love, Mia is living the good life, and he&’ll be back that weekend.But as Mia and Max work backward through her Instagram and across Los Angeles to learn more about her, they discover an ugly truth behind her perfect Instagram feed, and evidence that her head wound was no accident. Did Mia have it coming? And if so, is it too late for her to rewrite her story?By Mameve Medwed. 2021
Her life turned upside down by a grim diagnosis, a small-town Maine woman sets about writing a "How To" life…
manual for her handsome yet hapless husband in a novel Elinor Lipman (Good Riddance, On Turpentine Lane) calls "smart, funny-quirky, and so very satisfying."Annie and her devoted but comically incompetent childhood sweetheart Sam are the owners and operators of Annie's, a gourmet sandwich shop, home to the legendary Paul Bunyan Special Sandwich--their "nutritionally challenged continual source of income and marital harmony and local fame."But into their mostly charmed marriage comes the scary medical diagnosis for Annie--and the overwhelming challenge of finding a way to help Sam go on without her. Annie decides to leave Sam step-by-step instructions for a future without her, and considers her own replacement in his heart and their bed.Her best-laid plans grind to a halt with the unexpected appearance of Ursula, Annie's Manhattan diva of a mother, who brings her own brand of chaos and disruption into their lives.Minus Me is a poignant and hilarious novel about the bonds of marriage, the burdens of maternal love, and the courage to face mortality, "with an ending readers will cherish (Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You).""Medwed's lovely novel of marriage, motherhood, love and loss is so real that at times it feels like non-fiction. It's a timely reminder that in the worst of times, we sometimes rediscover the very best of ourselves." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light.By Madeleine Watts. 2020
In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down…
when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly).Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame.The work becomes monotonous: answer, transfer, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins walking home with keys in hand, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time, she gets black-out drunk, hooks up with strangers, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends.Two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it.Interweaving a woman's self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency.In the thrilling series finale, Peter and Mary return to Jerusalem, where they witness Jesus' crucifixion and Resurrection. The Secret of…
the Hidden Scrolls series follows siblings Peter and Mary and their dog, Hank, as they discover ancient scrolls that transport them back to key moments in biblical history. In their ninth and final adventure, the trio travels back to Jerusalem during the height of Jesus' popularity. But as they follow Jesus and his disciples, they quickly learn that Jesus' popularity makes him a target. Soon the religious leaders -- led by a familiar enemy -- have hatched a plan that causes one of Jesus' disciples to betray him, and Jesus is killed. With Jesus dead and time running out, will Peter and Mary be able to solve the secret of the scroll before they get stuck in the past forever? Join Peter, Mary, and Hank as they attend the Last Supper, witness Jesus' crucifixion, discover an empty tomb, and face the Enemy for the last time. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls hurtles to a close.By Jamie Harrison. 2020
Set against the wild beauty of Montana as a woman attempts to heal from a devastating accident, this generational saga…
from the award-winning author of The Widow Nash is a heartfelt examination of how the deep bonds of family echo throughout our lives.For Polly, the small town of Livingston, Montana, is a land charmed by raw, natural beauty and a close network of family that extends back generations. But the summer of 2002 finds Polly at a crossroads: a recent head injury has scattered her perception of the present, bringing to the surface long-forgotten events. As Polly's many relatives arrive for a family reunion during the Fourth of July holiday, a beloved friend goes missing on the Yellowstone River. Search parties comb the river as carefully as Polly combs her mind, and over the course of one fateful week, Polly arrives at a deeper understanding of herself and her larger-than-life relatives. Weaving together the past and the present, from the shores of Long Island Sound to the landscape of Montana, The Center of Everything examines with profound insight the memories and touchstones that make up a life and what we must endure along the way.By Bette Greene. 1974
Beth Lambert has a crush on Philip Hall, who is better than she is at just about everything--or is he?…
Philip Hall is the handsomest, smartest, fastest boy in Miss Johnson's class. He beats Beth Lambert in math, spelling, reading, sports... and she adores him. Beth suspects Philip likes her too, only she can't quite get him to admit it. In fact, he won't even invite her to his birthday party because he's afraid the other boys will call him a sissy. But then Beth begins to wonder: Maybe Philip only wins because she's letting him. Maybe she could beat him at everything. That would show Philip Hall! Because if being friends with a girl is bad... getting beaten by a girl is much, much worse. Newbery Medal Honor bookBy V ctor Diusab. 2018
La historia de un grupo de colombianos durante la Guerra Civil Espa ola En 1936 …
siete colombianos hermanos de la Orden de San Juan de Dios prestan sus servicios de enfermeros hospitalarios en el sanatorio San Jos en Ciempozuelos a 33 kil metros de Madrid P P El 7 de agosto son capturados por el gobierno de la Rep blica en los primeros d as de la guerra civil espa ola En octubre de 1992 Concha la hermana de Rub n de Jes s asiste a la beatificaci n en El Vaticano de su hermano y los dem s colombianos v ctimas de la Guerra Civil oficiada por el papa Juan Pablo II P Por pura casualidad o por obra del destino conoce a una pareja que le revelar informaci n desconocida sobre la muerte de su hermano En esta apasionante novela V ctor Diusab saca a la luz un hecho hist rico desconocido por muchos que tiene particular relevancia en el contexto actual de reparaci n de v ctimasREADERS LOVE JENNIFER MACAIRE! ''Fascinating . . . Jam-packed with adventure and colour'' Jodi Taylor***** ''Fantastic historical adventure'' - AMAZON…
REVIEWER***** ''I highly recommend it'' - GOODREADS REVIEWER***** ''No one blends time travel and history as well as she does.'' - AMAZON REVIEWER***** ''Some of my best reading travels this year!'' - GOODREADS REVIEWER***** ''You just keep turning those pages to see what''s coming next.'' - AMAZON REVIEWERTHE NEW TIMESLIP NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR!To save the future, she must turn to the past . . .San Francisco, Year 3377. A deadly virus has taken the world by storm. Scientists are desperately working to develop a vaccine. And Robin Johnson - genius, high-functioning, and perhaps a little bit single-minded - is delighted. Because, to cure the disease, she''s given the chance to travel back in time.But when Robin arrives at the last Ice Age hoping to stop the virus at its source, she finds more there than she bargained for. And just as her own chilly exterior is beginning to thaw, she realises it''s not only sabre-toothed tigers that are in danger of extinction . . . Praise for Jennifer Macaire''s Time For Alexander Series:''A fascinating glimpse into the Ancient World jam-packed with adventure and colour.'' Jodi Taylor, author ofthe best-selling Chronicles of St Mary''s series''A vividly written, characterful, informed and unusual take on Alexander and Ancient Times. I loved it.'' Carol McGrath, author of The Silken Rose''Fun, sexy and at times incredibly sad, the story held me to the end and the research was incredible'' Karen KingBy Kimberly Weinberger. 2003
Little Dolphin lives under the sea with a family of other dolphins who jump and swim around but he lacks…
the courage to jump as other dolphins do. He finds his courage when he wants to impress a child he sees on a boat. This short book contains ideas for helping a young child learn to read. The Pictures are described.By Frances Quinn. 2021
&‘I want you to remember something, Nat. You&’re small on the outside. But inside you&’re as big as everyone else.…
You show people that and you won&’t go far wrong in life.&’ A compelling story perfect for fans of The Doll Factory, The Illumination of Ursula Flight and The Familiars. My name is Nat Davy. Perhaps you&’ve heard of me? There was a time when people up and down the land knew my name, though they only ever knew half the story. The year of 1625, it was, when a single shilling changed my life. That shilling got me taken off to London, where they hid me in a pie, of all things, so I could be given as a gift to the new queen of England. They called me the queen&’s dwarf, but I was more than that. I was her friend, when she had no one else, and later on, when the people of England turned against their king, it was me who saved her life. When they turned the world upside down, I was there, right at the heart of it, and this is my story. Inspired by a true story, and spanning two decades that changed England for ever, The Smallest Man is a heartwarming tale about being different, but not letting it hold you back. About being brave enough to take a chance, even if the odds aren&’t good. And about how, when everything else is falling apart, true friendship holds people together.Praise for The Smallest Man: &‘Nat Davy is so charming that I couldn't bear to put this book down. I loved it&’ Louise Hare &‘A perfect fusion of history and invention… Nat&’s wit and humour make the poignancy of his story all the more powerful&’ Beth Morrey 'What a page-turner! A timely tale celebrating courage, determination and friendship' Anita Frank &‘A perfectly formed masterpiece&’ C.S. Quinn &‘I loved this book - a fascinating tale of extraordinary accomplishment, and a story about how anything is possible and how love has always been a beacon of hope&’ Phillip Schofield 'I found myself rooting for the Smallest Man in England from the very first page' Sonia Velton &‘A beautiful, heartwarming tale, weaving history and fiction intricately and seamlessly… I loved this book&’ Louise Fein &‘This book took me on an epic journey with a character that will always have a special place in my heart&’ Emma Cooper &‘An engaging, compelling, thought-provoking story of a life less ordinary&’ Caroline Scott &‘A beguiling and well-written tale&’ Ellen Alpsten &‘I absolutely fell for the book&’s narrator: an ebullient character whose voice and world view I adored&’ Polly Crosby