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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
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Language
English
Description
"Twin sisters Cassie and Lenora are inseparable. Ever since that night, they've been on their own, and that's how they like it. As the sole permanent residents of Cabin Two, their refuge on an isolated Tennessee campground, the twins manage to stay away from prying eyes, probing questions, and true crime junkies. The peace and quiet is almost enough to make them forget what happened all those years ago. Almost. Until a teenage girl camping at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Pieces of a Girl is a memoir about abuse and addiction and the power of storytelling and community that helped zine creator and novelist Stephanie Kuehnert survive and thrive. Told in journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the story of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to beocme a strong young woman after years trapped in a cycle that...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Five girls played together in the Smith Sisters Orchestra: Irene on trombone, Erma on vibraphone, Edwina on trumpet, Mildred on violin, and Lila on saxophone. But what of the littlest sister? When Viola's time came, almost every instrument was taken...except one. When she first sat behind a drum kit, she lost the beat, made a terrible racket, and had more fun than she'd ever had before. Viola took to the road with her family, learned from the greats,...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young daughters, Beata and Ulrika. The sisters are outcasts: imaginative, oppositional, increasingly obsessed with the lore and legend of the island's sinister past and their absent mother, whom their father refuses to speak of. As the girls come of age, and the...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York City in the '90s, Angela Shanté's poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present. As Shanté navigates the city through memory, this timeless book illuminates the places where Black girls are nurtured or boxed in, through stories and poems about expectations, exploitation, love, loss, and self-realization. Her poems center on pivotal moments of Black childhood, using footnotes...
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Publisher
MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient. Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I am going to kill someone, and I know who you really...
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover-from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators! Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder-a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs-where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt. And yet this story...
10) Until I'm yours
Author
Series
Bennett volume 4
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The world knows her face . . . but only one man knows her heart. Mean girl. Goddess. Bitch. Supermodel Sofie Baston has earned those labels . . . yet they don't scratch the surface of who she really is. Before she can follow her own dreams, Sophie must do her daughterly duty and reel in a "fish" for her father's business--a tall, brown-eyed entrepreneur who immediately hooks her. He's a big guy with an even bigger heart . . . but will that heart...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group...
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Publisher
Gnome Road Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Waste not, want not! A patterned flour sack becomes a clever creation in this story set in the late 1930's featuring a crafty girl with a gift for repurposing her favorite daisy print. When the family flour sack is emptied, Nancy Bess remakes it into a dress. But little girls grow as little girls do, and soon that dress is too small. Bit by bit, Nancy Bess fashions the material into new creations, until finally, all that is left of the flour sack...
13) The broken heart
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A young girl goes to all the places her brother Cody and his ex used to go in an attempt to collect the pieces of Cody's broken heart, as she learns how to support a loved one.
14) Cartoons
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Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"More than simply a book, Cartoons proposes itself as a genre of imaginary writing in opposition to the realism of most contemporary U.S. fiction, aligning itself with the French symbolism and Latin American fabulism its author is known to translate. A giant cricket with a tiny Kit Schluter in a jar, The Girl Who Is a Piece of Paper, an umbrella who confuses the words porpoise and purpose in its quest for self-fulfillment, these are just a few denizens...
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Publisher
Les presses de la cité
Pub. Date
janvier 2024.
Language
Français
Description
"La mort d'une mère. La quête d'une fille. Une vengeance implacable. Papa a tué maman. Rouen, avril 1983. Ophélie a - presque - tout vu, du haut de ses sept ans. Mais son père n'est pas le seul coupable. Un autre homme aurait pu sauver sa mère. Dès lors, Ophélie n'aura plus qu'un but : retrouver les témoins, rassembler les pièces du puzzle qui la mèneront jusqu'à la vérité. Et, patiemment, accomplir sa vengeance... Enfant placée en...
Publisher
Archie Comic Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Before The Married Life, before Archie asked, "Will You Marry Me?", there was Love Showdown - the first event in Archie Comics history. A standard-bearer for Archie's modern long-form storytelling, this 30th anniversary edition collects every piece of the ultimate battle for love. Archie decides he is finally going to make up his mind and choose his true love. On hearing this, Betty and Veronica fight for his affections tooth and nail with wits and...
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