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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Description
"Little Red Henry's family treats him like a baby. They dress him. They feed him. They try to do everything for him. But he's not really a baby anymore. This makes his family nervous, at first. As they see that he is fine on his own, they discover time to do the things they love. But will things swing too far in the other direction? Even Little Red Henry wants to be at the center of attention sometimes. In this charming reworking of the classic tale...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xv, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and indigenous inhabitants, this island (or rather archipelago) has a unique history. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo begins the book with an overview of the pre-Columbian societies and cultures that first inhabited Borikén, the indigenous name of the Puerto Rican archipelago....
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Pub. Date
2024.
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385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers an eyewitness account of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine"--
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments--from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody...
5) The restless
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"This lyrical novel, structured like a Creole quadrille, is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. Dambury's English debut is a vibrant memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, coinciding with the government's declassification of documents pertaining to the incident"--
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"Healing and thriving after or even during a narcissistic relationship can be challenging, but it is possible. It's Not You shows that the first step is to stop trying to change the narcissistic person, stop blaming yourself, and start giving yourself permission to foster your autonomy and sense of self outside of this relationship"--
7) Blood red
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 18 cm
Description
"In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, in obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
296 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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"May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she's dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant. May's future is upended, and she is forced to rely once again on her mother. Meanwhile, the white-majority neighborhood into which Naomi has moved...
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"Birdie Jennings dreams of a big life beyond her small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky--beyond her mundane job tying tobacco leaves at Wrights Factory, beyond her position as the baby of the family. Her life changes when she meets smooth-talking Jimmy Walker. Jimmy makes big promises for an exciting life together, and Birdie is quickly swept off her feet. But some short years after they marry, Jimmy disappears without a trace, leaving Birdie hurt and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Description
1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence. Véronique Fortin, daughter of a radical separatist convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, has embraced her father's cause. Then she falls for James Phénix, a journalist of French-Canadian heritage who opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is turbulent. His sister, Elodie Phénix, one of the Duplessis Orphans,...
12) Connor kissed me
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Description
After Connor kisses Sarah on the playground, she tells a number of people who have differing reactions to the incident, until her mother encourages her to listen to and stand up for her own feelings.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 566 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to...
15) Clover
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Around Clover's family's goat farm, there are plenty of things to do on any given day, from picking blueberries to collecting clams. But making decisions, even choosing something to do, is a great source of hesitation for young Clover -- that is, until one day, when the child's beloved goat, Peony, wanders too far from the farm. In order to bring Peony back home safely, Clover will have to learn to act quickly and decisively.
16) Llamando a mamá
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Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Description
"Max llama a su madre cada vez que quiere algo. O cuando se siente mal. O cuando tiene sueño. O cuando se le cae cualquier cosa al suelo. La llama gritando con todas sus fuerzas "¡MAMÁÁÁÁ!" Su madre vive constantemente asustada, pero un día decide no acudir a su insistente llamada. Para su sorpresa, comprueba que Max es capaz de hacer las cosas él solito."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Description
"Are you longing for your life to be easier and more fun? Would you like to stop pushing, micromanaging, and forcing things so you can relax? What if you could enjoy what you have instead of always lusting for "more"? What if you could live in "the zone," propelled by powerful currents toward the right people and opportunities? What if you could stop worrying about money and live with more emotional ease in the moment? If you answer "yes" to all these...
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Series
Brookstone brides volume 1
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1900. Lizzy Brookstone, star trick rider of the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, takes over management of the traveling show after her father's death. Working with Wesley DeShazer, the man who once broke her heart, and Jason Adler, her financial partner, she is soon torn between the two men. Ella Fleming, fleeing a forced betrothal, stows away on the train and is given a job in the costume department. Mary Reichert, a former sharpshooter...
20) Ruby's wish
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.
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