Almarie Guerra
41) Five Midnights
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Ann Dávila Cardinal's Five Midnights is a wickedly thrilling audiobook based on the el Cuco myth set against the backdrop of modern day Puerto Rico.
Five friends cursed. Five deadly fates. Five nights of retribución.
If Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other's company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping though Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends....
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A heartwarming book following a group of boys from different backgrounds throughout the school year as they become the best of friends. Musas feeling nervous about his first day of school. He’s not used to being away from home and he doesn’t know any of the other kids in his class. And when he meets classmates Moisés, Mo, and Kevin, Musa isn’t sure they’ll have much in common. But over the course of the year, the four boys learn more about...
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A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America today: immigration. They are called the DREAMers: young people who were brought, or sent, to the United States as children and who have lived for years...
44) Category Five
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After the hurricane, some see destruction and, some smell blood. Vieques: a small island just off the northeastern coast of the main island of Puerto Rico. A place struggling to recover after Hurricane Maria, where developers smell desperation and see opportunity. A paradise turned hunting ground for something angry that the storm revived. Lupe, Javier, and Marisol are back to investigate a series of murders that follow in the wake of destruction...
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Best babysitters ever volume 2
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When other commitments threaten the success of the Best Babysitters Ever, Malia is frustrated until she comes up with a plan to hire new babysitters and take a cut of their wages.
46) Miss Impossible
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Best babysitters ever volume 3
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Malia, Dot, and Bree get a much older--and scarier--client than they expected, but looks can be deceiving.
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Best babysitters ever volume 1
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Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.
48) The Immortal Boy
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2021
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Two intertwining stories of Bogotá.
One, a family of five children, left to live on their own.
The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy.
How they weave together will never leave you.
Presented in English and Spanish.
One, a family of five children, left to live on their own.
The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy.
How they weave together will never leave you.
Presented in English and Spanish.
49) Flashed
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Happy endings volume 3
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A former soccer player, stripper, and model, legendary party boy Patrick Halloran finally gets his big break starring in the summer blockbuster. But when an accident leaves him changed forever, he hides away in his secluded Montana ranch. Only his new housekeeper is allowed inside-with one rule: she's not allowed to see him. But Pat sees her, and she's the most stunning woman he's ever laid eyes on. Even her voice is beautiful. Still, Pat can't allow...
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Girl Code: Never date a friends ex. Willa Evans has no intention of breaking the code. So what if she’s always secretly loved her next-door neighbor Zach? As her best friend’s boyfriend, he was always off-limits and it needs to stay that way, even though they just broke up. Even though every time she turns around he’s there, tempting her No keeping secrets from your bestie. Flor Hidalgo has a lot on her plate: her breakup with Zach, her dad’s...
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The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales-both never-before-published in print or audio-that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.
Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological...
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Machetes Under Our Bed gifts readers with the writing and orations of over 100 Latina writers, speakers, and activists across the world in one of the most eclectic and inclusive collections traversing time, style, and traditions.
Machetes Under Our Bed: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Daughters of Latin America follows in the steps of Margaret Busby's New Daughters of Africa as a seminal collection of female creators that includes...
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Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world-from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña-gathered in one magnificent volume.
Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength,...
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An emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama about two cousins lured into the underground drug trade at a young age and the inextricable ties that bind them, as one woman seeks power and the other seeks a way out-the debut of a vibrant and stunningly original new voice in fiction.
Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls-more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system...
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"Seventh grader Wendy Toledo knows that black holes and immigration police have one thing in common: they can both make things disappear without a trace. When her family moves to a new all-American neighborhood, Wendy knows the plan: keep her head down, build a telescope that will win the science fair, and stay on her family's safe orbit. But that's easier said than done when there's a woman hiding out from ICE agents in the church across the alley,...
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From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors, including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco, comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens.
A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family's pastel-eria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup...
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2020
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"Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" – ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020
"[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir...This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border." – Publisher's Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
"[The] haunting and eloquent...narrative of a Guatemalan woman's desperate search for
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A searing tale of the human lives behind the Trump administration-made immigration crisis, written by two remarkable mothers-a Central American woman whose children were taken from her by the United States government at the southern border, and the American who helped reunite the family-and offers a timely and urgent look at a migrant experience, family separation and reunification, and the power of individuals banding together to overcome even the...
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This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the New York Times. To hone his skills and learn more about the power of words, he enrolls in Mr. Ward's class, known for its open-mic poetry readings and boys vs. girls poetry slam. Everyone in class has something important...
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#1 national bestselling and award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers another moving, evocative, and timely novel about how a small seed of hope can change the course of one's life.
Savannah Graham thought she had the perfect marriage...until grief drove her husband into the arms of his best friend's wife. Now, she believes revenge is the only way her heart can heal from the betrayal.
For fifty-two years, Ollie Moss lived side by side...