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Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. Upon first glance, My Legacy is a text suspiciously unworthy of obsession: there are no plot or characters to be found. However, the book's author is uninterested in a typical reading. Instead, he has created a world outside of time and space that can only be inhabited by its readers, which Anastas has written in...
2) Belchamber
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers--Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers--known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English aristocratic family. Behind him stretches a rogues' gallery of picturesque upper-crust scoundrels. But he is uninterested in riding to hounds or drinking or whoring in the great tradition of his forebears, and though he admires his tough-minded puritanical...
Author
Publisher
Copernicus
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Alice is about to enter a whole new Wonderland. It's Quantumland--a kind of intellectual amusement park, smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. There she'll meet an Emperor who thinks his new clothes into existence, dance with the Three Quark Brothers at the Particle MASSquerade, travel back in time (running into herself), and experience all kinds of quantum effects. Readers will learn about...
Author
Publisher
Spinifex Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As a designer of jewelry, Maisoon wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn't easy for a tradition-defying activist and Palestinian citizen of Israel who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. She volunteers for the Machsom Watch, an organization that helps children in the Occupied Territories cross the border to receive medical care. Frustrated by her boyfriend Ziyad and her father,...
5) Antrax
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Walker Boh is caught in a dark maze as an unseen, evil force traps the souls of men.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mourning the death of her best friend Vanessa, seventeen-year-old Bailey creates a chat bot using their text messages and emails, but, unsatisfied with the result, Bailey seeks out more data for the app and uncovers Vanessa's secrets, forcing Bailey to reconcile what she thought she knew about her friend with what Vanessa kept hidden.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester, New York,...
Author
Series
Amira and Hamza volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Having returned from Qaf as heroes, Hamza wants one more epic quest before heading back to school. While exploring an abandoned castle, the siblings must face the evil dev Ahriman which is out for revenge and to claim an ancient ring of power, so takes Hamza hostage.
Amira and Hamza have returned from Qaf, the magical Jinn world, as triumphant heroes--and life has been pleasantly quiet. Too quiet. Hamza is determined to have one last monumental,...
10) Tortillas are round: a book of shapes = Las tortillas son redondas : un libro de figuras geométricas
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Una niña descubre un mundo de figuras geométricas a su alrededor: plazas cuadradas, banderas que son rectángulos perfectos, porciones de sandía que parecen triángulos ... ¡y mucho más!
A little girl discovers things that are round, square, and rectangular in her Hispanic American neighborhood.