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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry, a novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future "A delicious literary page-turner from a fierce new voice." -Rebecca Makkai Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though,...
2) Mercury
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
58 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pizza's and Taco's moms want them to join a sports team, so when they see the wrestling sign up sheet at school they choose their wrestling names and create signature moves, hoping to join the club.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the critically acclaimed The Illness Lesson ("astoundingly original"-NYTBR), comes a a page-turning and psychologically penetrating tale about the rules that govern women's bodies and lives. In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing...
7) Beautyland
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
Author
Series
Guardians of Horsa volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The four Guardians continue their mission to find the yearling with a new kind of magic, but find an obstacle in the Naysayers, who are prepared to fight the Guardians to keep them from success.
9) Until August
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
Author
Series
Whatever after the graphic novel volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
156 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their...
Author
Publisher
Square Enix Manga, an imprint of the Book Publishing Division of Square Enix, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Though Maomao has left the palace behind and returned to her home in the pleasure district, it seems the Inner Court can't do without her! Jinshi comes to the erstwhile food taster with a request involving the attempted poisoning of the Virtuous Consort during the garden banquet and the identity of the mastermind behind it!
13) Pocket Peaches
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
79 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Peaches and her pals Mango and Pogi all live in a cozy town called Pocketon. When a new cat, Taro, moves in, Peaches is on a mission to befriend her. The only thing is, Taro loves all things spooky and Peaches does not. Can Peaches find a way to become friends despite their differences.
14) Poetry comics
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of illustrated poems about everything from new shoes and falling leaves to friendship and growing up"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known (and loved), and she is determined to get back there at any cost....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
17) W the whore
Author
Series
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West German-born Katrin De Vries read a magazine featuring the drawings of the East German-born Anke Feuchtenberger. De Vries wrote to ask Feuchtenberger if she might want to collaborate, and together, they've produced some of the most striking German comics of the last thirty years, most notably W the Whore. Collected here together in English for the first time, W the Whore, W the Whore Makes Her Tracks,...
19) The takeover
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sometimes, when you ask the universe for your soulmate, you wind up with your hate mate instead. On Nami's 30th birthday, she's reminded at every turn that her life isn't what she planned. She's always excelled at everything - until now. Her fiancé blew up their engagement. Her pride and joy, the tech company she helped to found, is about to lose funding. And her sister, Sora, is getting married to the man of her dreams, Jack, and instead of being...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a rural town deep in the mountains, has a dream that she is a boy living an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As they realize they are changing places, their encounter sets the cogs of fate into motion."--
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