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1) Gone wolf
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2023.
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English
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A twelve-year-old Black girl deals with fear, grief, pain, and suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and America's history of enslavement and racist violence.
2) Day: a novel
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English
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house - and whose departure...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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In this new story from the "My friend Berta" collection, Berta uses her daily adventures to show us how the kiddos of the house are dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many children around the world, Berta cannot go to school, or play with her friends, or visit with her grandparents. Her parents have explained to her that a virus called Corona is to blame, but Berta has way more questions. What is the virus? Why can't I see it? Why should I stay...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Han pasado 17 meses desde la toma de posesión de Antonio M. Lugo Olea, AMLO, como presidente de todos los mexicanos. 17 meses en los que la desesperanza y la decepción han nublado su gobierno. Sus detractores son cada vez más y el parece haber perdido por completo el control del país. Para empeorar su situación, Trump ha decidido que la hora de un encuentro, frente a frente, en la Casa Blanca, ha llegado. Mariano Everhard, su secretario de Relaciones...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is Jennifer Weiner's love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us. 432pp., 350K
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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As fears of the coronavirus mount, Ansinette is in the midst of piecing her life back together. A tumultuous relationship with the father of her children pushes love to the back of her mind. She is so busy trying to keep her head above water and chase two growing boys that she overlooked the chocolate brother with the chiseled chest who lives across the hall. Marcus just wanted the simple things in life... to own a home and have a family. He believes...
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"Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"There was a time when the family Kunstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Kunstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Kunstler,...
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[2020]
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English
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A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors.
A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place...
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Dan Clifford volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A high-octane thriller that sets Dan Clifford against ancient secret societies vying for power in the modern world; in the vein of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series. In The Third Instinct, author Kent Lester brings his signature blend of cutting-edge science, history, and pulse-pounding action to the next Dan Clifford adventure. A shadowy group of bio-hackers called the Firemen threaten to worsen the Covid pandemic by releasing an even more lethal...
14) The reservoir
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Gazing out his picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, former Wall Street veteran Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park, as if a lonely person is signaling him. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is leads him on a quest that will tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Ridley leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the femme fatale and descends...
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