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Language
English
Description
"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling. A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. We're invited to experience these events and others through...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Teeny-Weeny Unicorn feels like the world is not made for his small stature and one day it bothers him so much he runs off, but soon after meeting a salty gnome he starts to wonder if he might just be the right size after all.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...
Author
Series
Huda F books volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
194 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
7) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries' plan...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an incident leads to her suspension, eighteen-year-old Brynn's high school persona that hides her secret disability is shattered, and she begins embracing her true self on her journey to self-acceptance.
Brynn Kwan is desperate for her high school persona to be real. That Brynn is head of the yearbook committee, the favorite for prom queen, and definitely not crumbling from a secret disability that's rapidly wearing her down. If no one knows...
10) King cheer
Author
Series
Arden High volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Waitlisted by her dream college and questioning her identity, Leah steps down as cheer captain to focus on her future, but when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team.
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