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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"Twins have captivated the imagination for centuries, occupying a unique place in our cultural and scientific history. Twinkind looks at twins in myth and legend; anatomy, sociology, and genetics; and as sources of spectacle, entertainment, and community. Drawing on hundreds of striking and sometimes haunting illustrations, William Viney examines depictions of twins as protagonists in creation stories ranging from Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca in...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
4) Final word
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Series
Winterton deception volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 370 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
"Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The switcheroo fun of The Parent Trap meets the showbiz spirit of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this timeless coming-of-age story about family, friendship, and following your dreams. When Shira and Esther first meet, they can hardly believe their eyes. It's like looking in a mirror! But even though they may look identical, the two girls couldn't be more different. Shira dreams of singing and dancing onstage, but her father, a stern and pious rabbi,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
254 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm
Description
Twin siblings Elliot and Liza only have each other. Their parents are gone. Their home was taken, and to survive on their own, they're forced to scrounge up plastic and metal to trade for coin within an abandoned garbage heap. Desperate to escape the vagabond cycle that they're trapped in, the answer to their plight seemingly appears when they stumble upon a Raven Quest--magical tasks offered by mysterious message-carrying ravens that when successfully...
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Series
Four points volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Description
After escaping the Black Hook Gang in 1860 New York City, twelve-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra flee to New Orleans, become separated, and try to find each other in San Francisco, while being followed by pirates who think they hold the key to treasure.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way-handsome, intelligent, popular-until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death...
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Series
Legendarios volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Description
Nine-year-old twins Emma and Martain travel into a book of legends and where they must try to stop the rain god's flood.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 23 cm
Description
When their mother Cinny dies, forty-something twins Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are sent on a trip around the world to scatter her ashes. Joined by their own immediate families, Grace and Brian set off on a funereal odyssey that uncovers more about their parents' relationship, and themselves, than the twins find it easy to admit.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
200 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
In her struggle to protect her best friend from getting hurt, Elizabeth finds herself torn between Amy, who is determined to join the Unicorn Club's cheering squad, and her twin sister Jessica, who is one of the Unicorns who do not want Amy on the team.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"It's 1933 in pre-war London. Identical twin sisters Clara and Olivia Marionetta are rehearsing for their performance in the ballet Coppélia at the recently opened Sadler's Wells Theatre. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina- but no matter how hard she tries, she can't compete with Clara's rebellious charm. And now Clara has started a relationship with someone who Olivia secretly desires: passionate, bohemian Nathan, a pianist...
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