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Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tulsi Gurung arrives in Pennsylvania on a day so impossibly damp and gray he wonders if he's landed on the underside of the world. He is sixteen and brimming with wonder and fear. Born and raised in Refugee Camp Goldhap, Tulsi is technically a refugee from Bhutan, a land he's never set eyes on. Reunited with his grandfather, Tulsi struggles to navigate his new life, his new country, and a raw separation from his beloved sister, Susmita, the one person...
122) The widow queen
Author
Series
Bold ; 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Widow Queen is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now. The bold one, they call her-too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for an alliance. Three marriages on which to build his empire. But Swietoslawa refuses to be simply a pawn in her father's schemes; she seeks a throne of her own, with no husband...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When grumpy, muscled-up artist Bennett Bishop bothers to speak, it's usually to say something you're not ready to hear. When he first speaks to Norah Ellis, a rambling runaway bride who hitchhikes a ride from him, it's to tell her to get out of his truck and walk because she's a pain in the a-s-s. By appearance, Norah Ellis is a fancy fashionista who's spent the last several years living the good life in the city-expensive apartments, highbrow events,...
Author
Series
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"PARÍS, 1940. La ciudad está bajo ocupación alemana. Una joven judía, Judith, conoce a un joven, hijo de un rico banquero y simpatizante de los nazis; su familia nunca aprobará a la chica de la que se ha enamorado. A medida que los alemanes imponen más y más restricciones a los judíos parisinos, la pareja planea huir del país en secreto. Pero antes de que puedan escapar, Judith desaparece...MONTREAL, 1982. Poco antes de su muerte, Lica Grunberg...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren't helping anyone but themselves. Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was even born. Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Rabourne is already struggling to pay the bills when her recently orphaned half sister, Wendy, shows up at her door. Rosemary will try anything to provide for the traumatized teenager--including offering her services as a high-end escort. Leo Glass is the billionaire CEO of a revolutionary social app. He wants the "girlfriend experience"--someone contractually obligated to love him--and he thinks he's found the perfect match in Rosemary....
127) Good girls
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lovely and Beauty know their place: at home, beneath the watchful eye of their mother. Life has never included friends, an education, or anything the sisters can call their own. Their comings and goings are supervised by Farida. Otherwise, they don’t come and go at all. That changes on Lovely’s fortieth birthday. In a stroke of inexplicable fortune, Farida permits her eldest daughter to go to the Gausia Market alone, with no instructions but to...
128) The peasant king
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher. Asher is not who the world believes he is. Despite his royal blood, he has...
129) Memoria
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Kaiser Family helped the Nova Vita system avoid a catastrophic multi-planet war, one that the Kaisers might have accidentally caused in the first place. In their wake, two planets have been left devastated by ancient alien technology. Now, the Kaisers try to settle into their new lives as tenuous citizens of the serene water planet, Nibiru, but Scorpia Kaiser can never stay still. So, she takes another shady job. One that gives her a ship where...
Author
Series
Silvers ; 3
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's been two years since the world collapsed in a sheet of light, obliterating everything on Earth...but not quite everyone. Saved from the apocalypse by three mysterious beings, sisters Hannah and Amanda Given were marked with silver bracelets, along with four other survivors from their native world, and transported to an entirely different Earth, a place where the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances. Afflicted with time-bending...
131) Discordia
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Scorpia is finally back among the stars, far away from the memories of the war she and her family started - and ended - on Nibiru. Her first order as captain of the Memoria is to keep her crew safe, and she is all too happy not to get involved in dangerous political games for once. Corvus is haunted by what he experienced at the hands of the Titan attack, and he's just as eager for a new beginning. He knows that not all Titans are built for war,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta's life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings. Thirty-four-year-old Reeva thought her life couldn't possibly get more complicated, until her semi-famous Bollywood mother calls to tell her that she's been lying to her daughters for decades-the...
Author
Series
Publisher
C & R Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The curse of Pharaoh Sinus Nefertop is upon Blotto so it's up to Twinks to banish it! Yet another financial crisis at Tawcester Towers! So this time the Dowager Duchess decides to sell off the less important family possessions, which have, for a long time, been consigned to the attics of the ancestral home. Blotto and Twinks are dispatched to help the valuer as he carries out an inspection. Not much of any worth is found but then the valuer spies...
134) La aventura
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Rose McCarthy es la legendaria directora de la revista Mode. Tras la muerte de su esposo, ha estrechado la relación con sus cuatro hijas. Todas tienen carreras de éxito: Athena es una conocida chef televisiva; Venetia es diseñadora de moda; Olivia, jueza de un tribunal superior; y Nadia, la más joven, es diseñadora de interiores en París. Nadia considera que su vida es perfecta: está casada con el aclamado autor Nicolas Bateau, que la adora...
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