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Author
Series
Changers volume 4
Publisher
Black Sheep/Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When we left Kim Cruz in Changers Book Three, she'd just come out to her best friend. In Changers Book Four: Forever, Kim discovers that this is only one small part of understanding who she is and where she belongs. Soon enough, she changes again, into the body and social status of her dreams. What she does with her newfound power will come to haunt her. In this final installment of the provocative Changers series, our hero learns what it means to...
522) Glow girl
Author
Publisher
Underground House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Glow Girl is a story about a young woman named Lilly, damaged from a lifetime of being ridiculed for her weight, and obsessed with the dream of finding love, she escapes into her mind where not having friends or knowing love doesn't matter. The first semester of her college career, Lilly falls for a real boy in English class. Adam is the strong, confident men-want-to-be-him, women want-to-be-on-him guy. Lilly's obsession with her dream world turns...
523) A Queda
Author
Publisher
Livros do Brasil
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Num bar de marinheiros em Amsterdão, um homem que se apresenta como juiz-penitente enceta conversa com um desconhecido. Entre copos de genebra e deambulações pelas ruas daquela cidade de canais concêntricos, a fazer lembrar os círculos do inferno, recorda a sua vida passada como respeitável advogado parisiense, insuperável na defesa de causas nobres e nas conquistas amorosas. Mas à medida que a confissão se desenrola as ambiguidades acumulam-se,...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Having grown up on stories of her mother's wild youth in California, Elena Berg relocates from New England to the Bay Area in 2011 for a placement as an English teacher with Teach for America. Once there, she is eager to inspire a love of poetry and literature in her diverse but underprivileged students. Her own grandfather--a Holocaust survivor--was a storyteller and teacher who touched the lives of his students for years to come. Elena's mother...
525) Powwow summer
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age story about a teen girl who experiences her Indigenous heritage in a meaningful way. Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. Teased about her Indigenous heritage as a young girl, she feels like she doesn't belong and struggles with her identity. Now eighteen and just finished high school, River travels to Winnipeg to spend the summer with her Indigenous father and grandmother,...
527) Un cuento oscuro
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The...
Author
Language
Français
Description
"L'Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n'a longtemps été pour Naïma qu'une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir la renvoyer à ses origines. Mais quel lien pourrait-elle avoir avec une histoire familiale qui jamais ne lui a été racontée? Son grand-père Ali, un montagnard kabyle, est mort avant qu'elle ait pu lui demander pourquoi l'Histoire...
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"A pocos días de fallecer su marido, Laura Cohen recibe en su consulta a un joven, Jacob Lambert. Su repentina desaparición abrirá una puerta al pasado familiar de Laura que la conducirá a una investigación que se remonta hasta el Holocausto. Laura Cohen, una mujer madrileña afincada en Montreal, ve cómo su apacible y exitosa vida junto a su marido Alexander, afamado psicólogo como ella, se trunca trágicamente cuando este muere en un misterioso...
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writers is a thoughtfully curated collection of short stories at the intersection of racial and queer identity. Comprising both the renowned and emerging voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color authors, across multiple countries, and diverse in style, perspective, and theme, In Our Words reflects the complexity and diversity of human experience.
531) Pureza
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
Si la literatura es el instrumento ideal para que el ser humano ilumine los recovecos más oscuros de su mundo interior y perciba con mayor nitidez la realidad que lo circunda, Jonathan Franzen es el novelista contemporáneo que más se ha atrevido a explorar las fronteras que condicionan nuestra existencia. Con Pureza, Franzen ha logrado superar el listón marcado con su anterior novela, Libertad, que en su momento supuso un hito admirado y reconocido...
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