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2) Cackle
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of The Return, a darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants, from a witch who might be too good to be true. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She's stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Penélope no ha sido fácil, pero justo cuando la promesa de un futuro mejor se le presenta como un puesto de directora de un centro de ayuda para pandillas en Los Ángeles, una serie de atentados atribuidos a la comunidad hispana la ponen en riesgo de muerte. En su vertiginoso intento por escapar de un complot que involucra a las más altas esferas de la política estadounidense, Penélope tendrá que confiar en dos oscuros personajes:...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been." Nell--funny, brave and so much loved--is a young woman...
5) Cometierra
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando era chica, Cometierra trag?o tierra y supo en una visi?on que su pap?a hab?ia matado a golpes a su mam?a. Esa fue solo la primera de las visiones. Nacer con un don implica una responsabilidad hacia los otros y a Cometierra le toc?o uno que hace su vida doblemente dif?icil, porque vive en un barrio en donde la violencia, el desamparo y la injusticia brotan en cada rinc?on y porque all?i las principales v?ictimas son las mujeres. En la persecuci?on...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Lou Clark sabe demasiadas cosas... Sabe cuántos kilómetros hay entre su nuevo hogar en Nueva York y su nuevo novio, Sam, en Londres. Sabe que su jefe es un buen hombre y sabe que su mujer le está ocultando un secreto. Lo que Lou no sabe es que está a punto de conocer a alguien que va a poner toda su vida patas arriba. Porque Josh le recordará tanto a un hombre que conocía que hace que el corazón le duela. Lou no sabe lo que hará a continuación,...
12) Destiny
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
A young woman confronts the personification of Death, in an effort to restore life to her dead fiance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a failed attempt at escape, the princess of a tiny kingdom begins to reevaluate her life. Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated. After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed, with a collar of pearls locked around her throat...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery-home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
16) The flood
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set during WWII this is the story of Jarah's coming-of-age in a brutal and lawless land, growing from a sweet child to a strong, independent, and ferocious woman taking on Australia's corrupt and bigoted system one bad guy at a time. In the best tradition of the gunslinging outlaw, when the enigmatic Jarah is pushed to the limit she explodes in a fury of retribution.
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