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1) Swift River
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Description
"What if the price of knowing who you are is losing the only family you've ever known? Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sixteen-year-old Diamond Newbury is desperately lonely. It's been seven years since her father disappeared, and while her mother is determined to move on, Diamond can't distance herself from his memory. When Diamond receives a letter from a relative she has never met, she...
2) Queerceañera
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceanera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family's RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelan is on everyone's minds. What Joaquin is decidedly trying to not think about is whether his mom is going...
3) Kittentits
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike-riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly's adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty...
4) Malas
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguierre in the small boarder town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Mu�noz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming quincea�nera. When her beloved grandmother passes...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When Kunle's younger brother disappears as his country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission behind enemy lines. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt and shame who must go to war to free himself....
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Part coming-of-age romance, part thriller, Bomb Island is a funny and fast-paced Southern summer novel exploring sub-culture communities, survival, and found family set on an island near an unexploded atomic bomb. Summer is in full swing on Bomb Island, Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Fish lives in a commune on the three-mile stretch of sand with his chosen family: their "mother-sage" Whistle and her white tiger, Sugar, a young man named Reef, and an old...
7) Lunar boy
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"[A] coming-of-age graphic novel about a young boy from the moon who discovers a home in the most unlikely places"--
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"During the final round of the Karaku Cup, Akane delivers a performance that spellbinds the audience. As the crowd is gripped with emotion, Akane receives a shocking review from her most hated foe, Issho Arakawa. Who will emerge victorious at the competition andnget to have a one-on-one talk with the man who ruined the life of Akane's father? As the thrilling Karaku Cup comes to its conclusion, a new chapter unfolds...What awaits Akane on the next...
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