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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA and READ WITH MARIE CLAIRE BOOK CLUB PICK!
Named a best book by Glamour, Marie Claire, TIME, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and more!
From New York Times bestselling Emiko Jean, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love—how we find it, keep it, and how it always returns.
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Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
8) Sea change
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2023.
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"Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at a mall aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus...
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2023 Stoker Awards Final Ballot
2023 Youth Media Awards
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
2023 Youth Media Awards
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
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When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
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2023.
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Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
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HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2022.
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"A critical sensation in France, Santiago Amigorena re-imagines his Jewish grandfather--a Polish immigrant in Argentina in the 1930s--and the tragic events that defined his life as he fails to rescue his mother and siblings from a Warsaw ghetto in this novel about identity, guilt, and the unshakable power of love"--
15) Limbo
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Twenty-seven-year-old Afghan War veteran Manuela Paris returns to her hometown near Rome, where she struggles against the flashbacks and pain resulting from a bloody attack that left her seriously injured.
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* An American Booksellers Association "Indies Introduce" Pick!
Haunting, gorgeously descriptive, and spellbinding, At the Edge of the Woods is a magnificent and assured debut novel that delivers all the resonance and significance of an instant classic.
Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the Italian Alps, making her living translating medical documents and tutoring the children of affluent locals. She spends her days climbing the mountains...
17) Hurricane girl
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2022.
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English
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"The story of a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, healing, a swimming pool, and perhaps someone who can stop the bleeding from her head"--
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"In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails...
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Astra House
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[2022]
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English
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"Bad Fruit is about the difficult, sometimes abusive, relationship between a mother and daughter. As the boundaries of mother love are crossed, universal themes of family, history, and identity help reveal the shattering effects of generational trauma"--
20) Howl
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2022]
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English
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When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse--that he is becoming a monster himself.
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