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Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the outside, Isabel doesn't seem to have much going on. It's the summer after college graduation and she's moved back to her hometown, where she spends her days house-sitting, babysitting, working the front desk at a yoga studio, and hanging out with her childhood friend Ellie. But on the inside, Isabel's mind is always running, always analyzing, and right now, she's trying hard to not let her thoughts give weight to boys. So when Isabel spots...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"--
"In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her...
4) Kittentits
Author
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, an imprint of Zando
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike-riding ex-con with a questionable past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly's adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and...
5) Queerceañera
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceañera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family's RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelán is on everyone's minds. What Joaquin is decidedly trying to not think about is whether his mom is going...
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Part coming-of-age romance, part thriller, Bomb Island is a funny and fast-paced Southern summer novel exploring sub-culture communities, survival, and found family set on an island near an unexploded atomic bomb. Summer is in full swing on Bomb Island, Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Fish lives in a commune on the three-mile stretch of sand with his chosen family: their "mother-sage" Whistle and her white tiger, Sugar, a young man named Reef, and an old...
Author
Publisher
Hurtubise
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
"L'été de toutes les promesses et libertés ! Avant d'entrer au cégep, Rose compte bien profiter de ce moment singulier. L'adolescente, qui habite seule avec son père depuis le décès de sa mère trois ans plus tôt, décide de dresser une liste de choses à accomplir pour vivre sans regret. Un imbroglio amoureux et l'impression de ne pas être à la hauteur des autres filles de son âge ébranleront sa confiance et l'empêcheront de traverser...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Finn and Ezra's bar mitzvah weekend takes on a Groundhog Day twist in this hilarious and magical middle grade novel from Joshua S. Levy. Finn and Ezra don't have a lot in common--except, of course, that they're trapped in a bar mitzvah time loop, reliving their celebrations in the same New Jersey hotel over and over and over again. Not ideal, particularly when both kids were ready for their bar mitzvahs to end the moment they began. Ezra comes from...
10) Eddy, Eddy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A series of earthquakes exposes the fault lines in a teenager's unconventional life in a powerful crossover novel that explores raw emotion with wit and warmth."--
Author
Publisher
Cross Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Una encantadora historia en la que una chica de Miami se encuentra con el amor --y consigo misma-- en una pequeña localidad inglesa. Para Lilia Reyes pasar un verano en Inglaterra nunca fue parte del plan. La idea 1) Sustituir a su abuela como repostera en la pastelería cubana en Miami; 2) mudarse con su mejor amiga después de graduarse de la escuela, y 3) vivir feliz para siempre con su novio. Pero un acontecimiento inesperado derrumbará todo...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Roland Keener is an aging hairstylist who's lived and worked in Winnipeg all his life. He's more or less content with the quiet and predictable days he shares with his partner of twenty-five years, Tony. That is, until he hears that Birdy O'Day--washed-up music icon and Roland's childhood best friend and first love--is playing his first concert in Winnipeg since fleeing decades earlier. Holing up with a scrapbook of news clippings about Birdy, Roland...
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