Penguin Random House
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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"From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother's encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood"-- Provided by publisher.
Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book Fear of Flying launched her into second-wave feminist stardom. She grew up yearning for a connection with her dreamy, glamorous, just out of reach...
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2019.
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380 pages ; 24 cm
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"For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers" -- the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to...
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"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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2024.
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32 pages ; color illustrations ; 24 cm
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¡Es el cumpleaños de Papi! Quiere significar que es hora de entrar en la cocina y hornear el pastel tradicional de la familia - Tres Leches! Juntos, mediremos los ingredientes y cuando el pastel se pegue al molde, no se preocupes! Abuelita está ahí para salvar el día. La familia está trabajando junta en esta tradición especial, como Papi hizo con Abuelita cuando era joven!
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2025.
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249 pages ; 25 cm
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"How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice in order to chase your dreams? After her sister Nena's sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington Heights, is numb. With her sister gone, Xiomara is painfully close to thirty, living in a tiny apartment with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, and having the same shitty sex with the same shitty men that she's been entertaining for years. Behind on rent...
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2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations 26 cm.
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"Bookie y Cookie son mejores amigos. Les encanta pasar tiempo juntos, leyendo y comiendo galletas. Pero siempre se juntan en casa de Cookie... hasta el día en que Bookie insiste en quedarse en su casa. Cookie se niega; no quiere probar nada nuevo. Así que ahora Bookie y Cookie están cada uno por su lado, y las cosas que solían hacer juntos ya no son tan divertidas. ¿Podrán los dos amigos atreverse a probar cosas nuevas para salvar su amistad?"--Provided...
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[2023]
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x, 303 pages ; 22 cm
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"An exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and specific exercises and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary-body liberation"-- Provided by publisher.
When King first joined a gym, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness": no matter what she achieves, there was always something...
10) Extreme prey
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"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of...
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"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers"--...
12) All adults here
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"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
13) Orgullo prieto
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2022.
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220 pages ; 23 cm
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"México es un país racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como "No es racismo, sino clasismo", "Acá somos todos mestizos" o "Nunca hubo un sistema segregacionista como en Estados Unidos" negamos que hemos perpetuado la discriminación durante generaciones."--Page [4] of cover.
14) Creepy sheepy
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[2025]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Sleepy Sheepy wants his costume to be creepy and unique, so on Halloween night he becomes a Sheepwalker sheep.
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2024.
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183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Residencia americana te ofrece una visión detallada y completa del proceso de solicitud de la residencia legal en los Estados Unidos. Desde los criterios de elegibilidad hasta la documentación necesaria, te guía paso a paso en cada etapa del camino. Y con acceso a recursos online, ¡siempre está actualizada! Además, explora las diferentes opciones para obtener la residencia, desde aquellas patrocinadas por familia o empleo, hasta la lotería...
16) Rio de mariposas
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2024
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"¡Puedes imaginar un mundo que pertenezca a las mariposas? Yo sí."--Back cover.
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2022.
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191 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"¿Un postrecito? Con su estilo de recetas fáciles y rápidas, kiwilimón comparte sus mejores platillos dulces aptos para cocineros primerizos y experimentados, o cualquiera que desee crear momentos inolvidables alrededor de la mesa. En este viaje culinario encontrarás recetas doblemente comprobadas de flanes, gelatinas; tartas y pays para la hora del café; pasteles esponjosos y galletas; postres sin horno y sin batidora; cubiertos con chocolate,...
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2023
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302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope...
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Publication Date
2022
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326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Ser una mujer victoriosa y feliz puede ser un gran desafío. No subestimes el poder de los pequeños cambios. ¿Te has sentido tan abrumada que parece que el mundo se te cae encima? ¿O tan decaída que casi no puedes levantarte de la cama? El estrés, la ansiedad y la depresión son algunas de las enfermedades más comunes de este siglo. Enfermedades silenciosas que, poco a poco, van minando lo que somos. Jessica Domínguez lo sabe de primera...
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2025.
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253 pages : charts, color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Los mitos nos construyen, nos enseñan, nos conmueven, nos aconsejan. Nos dan esa explicación que, a pesar de los siglos que han pasado desde su creación, todavía cobra sentido en la actualidad. La divulgadora Cristina Garciamartín -también conocida como Niké de Samotracia- da vida a diosas, nereidas, ninfas o mortales como Gea, Hera, Pandora, Pirra, Anfítrite, Ío... Estas mujeres nos contarán en primera persona algunos de los...



