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58324) My life as a rhombus
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier and examine how it has changed her life.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant new voice ups the self-deprecating memoir ante with tragicomic tales of her dysfunctional life in swampland Florida and America's Big Easy. A dive bar palm reader who calls herself the Disco Queen Taiwan; a slumlord with a penis-of-the-day LISTSERV; and Betty, the middle-aged Tales of the Cocktail volunteer who soils her pants on a party bus and is dealt with in the worst possible way. These are just a few of the unforgettable characters...
58326) Slon dli͡a Di͡uĭmovochki
Author
Series
Publisher
Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"Dasha Vasilyeva wants to relax peacefully during the holiday season, like all normal people, but it doesn't work out! A sweet girl, Anna, came to Colonel Degtyarev's office and said that her mother had gone crazy. After the death of her husband, Anya's father, the woman took a certain Yuri Rogachev inot her life, a suspicious type of immense proportions. Anya does not believe in Rogachev's love. It is very sweet, just sugar with honey and chocolate...
58327) They will be coming for us
Author
Publisher
Forster Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this gripping psychological thriller, Svetlana Peterman has met her soul mate in Andrew Jovian, a young astronomer who works for Starbright International, the aerospace company his wealthy parents own. Once married, they make a home in Kirksberg, Pennsylvania, a small town famous for a UFO sighting that occurred in the 1960s. Svetlana is, for once, truly happy, except that Andrew?s family is strange, and not in a normal-strange kind of way. Preoccupied...
58331) Child of the mountains
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
58335) Yamim yagidu
Author
Series
Publisher
Modan
Pub. Date
2012
Language
עברית
Description
From the ravages of the Great War and the docks of working-class England to the streets of 1940 New York City and the outbreak of the Second World War, the epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father and expects to continue on at the shipyard, until a remarkable gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school. When...
58336) Pack up the moon
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Three years after a horrible tragedy took her son and tore her family apart, artist Kate Monroe is beginning to pick up the pieces of her life. At a gala showcasing her return to the art world, Kate's world is rocked when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-two years ago introduces herself. Pree is the child Kate never knew and never forgot. But Pree has questions that Kate isn't sure she's ready to answer. For one thing, she never told Pree's...
58338) Salvatierra
Author
Publisher
Libros del Asteroide
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
¿Qué sabemos realmente sobre nuestros padres? La novela más admirada y traducida de Pedro Mairal. Juan Salvatierra, pintor mudo, humilde y autodidacta, deja a sus hijos un misterioso cuadro en herencia: un inmenso mural que ocupa casi cuatro kilómetros de rollos de tela y que pintó en secreto hasta el día de su muerte. Al descubrir que falta una parte de la obra, su hijo Miguel se irá adentrando en los enigmas del pasado del artista en una...
58339) Daughter of Cana
Author
Series
Jerusalem Road volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In AD 30, Tasmin encounters a wedding guest who turns water into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana. But when her twin brother, Thomas, impulsively chooses to follow the Teacher from Nazareth, she decides to follow the group and do whatever she must to bring her brother home"--
58340) Back home
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rachel Browning understands that her father will be different after being injured in the Iraq War, but no one is prepared for the impact that his traumatic brain injury and other wounds have on the entire family.
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