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"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Peyton King has always wanted to belong. She seizes the opportunity to start over at a new school and finally finds real connections with the friends she's always dreamed of and even an actual boyfriend! But after flying high in her newfound happiness, Peyton comes crashing down when reality sets in and the ones she cares about let her down. Peyton's friends can't fix her and she can't help them if they won't let her. If she wants to find real, lasting...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
New Jersey girl Zora Emerson is attending her pre-college prep at Halstead University, where the incredibly wealthy and stuck-up students go, and after only a week she is feeling academically confident but socially out of place; then an awkward mix-up of cell phones brings her into closer contact with Owen Whittelsey (prince of a small European country) and his security guards--but it is when Owen asks her to be his date at his brother's royal wedding...
4) Face
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Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame. How much is your Face worth? Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Face-rich and powerful enough to assure their dominance in society. But in SchAddie's household, cracks are beginning to appear. Schuyler is bored and taking risks. Maddie is becoming brittle,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in--and be thin--at their all-girls boarding school. It's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives at a vast English country house for her first day of boarding school. She soon discovers that the headmaster gives special treatment to the skinniest girls, and Natasha finds...
6) Aaalligator!
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Though he's scared at first, a boy who encounters an alligator in the woods discovers all the creature wants is companionship - and leftovers! - and the two become friends. But the mayor of the boy's town won't have it. He makes a proclamation, "NO ALLIGATORS! Blah, blah, blah." Which the townspeople agree with, at first. Then they realize how friendly the alligator is (and how nice it is to have someone eat their leftovers!), and they want him to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Goldie McKenzie, DVM, vet to the L.A. pet stars, arrives from Los Angeles to Blue Dog Valley she realizes three things. 1. Never agree to upend your life when you’re hungover 2. Pot-belly pigs are not true farm animals 3. She’s going to need a warmer coat. At first Goldie is nothing more than a fish out of water, with few clients and few friends. But after a less than pleasant encounter with a man whose dog is suffering from a possibly fatal...
10) School squad
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Series
Popularity pact volume Book 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Following the events of Camp Clique, it's Maisy's turn to get her former friend Bea accepted into a desirable social clique at school
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sonya is torn between her roots. She was born in the USA but her parents are Indian. Her parents want her to embrace who she is, but Sonya feels like a misfit. This is a story about a little girl who discovers her identity and learns to appreciate who she is. A must read for any child or adult who feels different from the rest of the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Holly Banks could not have made a worse first impression on the seemingly perfect moms in her new affluent community, the Village of Primm. Turns out wearing pink piggy pajama bottoms while dropping off her kindergartener late to the first day of school wasn't her best look. Not to mention Holly's worried her husband may be having an affair, she can't get her daughter to stop sucking her thumb, her hard-won film degree is collecting dust, and to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Puercoespín ha organizado una gran fiesta a la que van a ir TODOS los animales de la selva, aunque a Jim Pancé no le tiene muchas gans porque no sabe bailar. Sus amigos intentan enseñarle unos cuantos pasos, pero por mucho que Jim se mueva, se contonee y se pavonee, no la pasa nada bien... hasta que Búfalo confiesa que él también se siente un poco incómodo. ¿No será que, de vez en cuando, sentirte un poco nervioso es normal?" --
Have...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This children's picture book follows a sibling of a child with a disability as the kids go through their daily routine. A simple story with an important message, 'Like Me' helps kids recognize the many similarities they share with disabled kids and model a loving and understanding approach to the differences."
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What's the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. He's been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents' new diner and, as the only Asian in his all-white school, being trolled as "brown boy" by small-minded,...
16) Some cats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Silly or serious, awake or at rest, to those who love them, all cats are the best. The cats in this bright, playful board book come in all shapes, colors, and sizes-but they don't let their differences keep them from having fun together. Every page turnreveals a new layer to Lydia Nichol's adorable depiction of a home full of cats-some elegant, some goofy, but each adorable in their own way. Perfect for cat lovers of all ages, this rhyming story...
Author
Series
One cool duck volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Duck and the gang are joined by Rhino, Turtle, Frog and the rest of the kids from the Cool Caboose in a mega game of capture the flag! If they get tagged by the other team, they are out of the game. The object is to capture the other team's flag! But who wins? In three short chapters, perfect for readers just gaining confidence, Duck and friends once again show that being cool is never about being mean!
18) Someone new
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Wonderbooks edition].
Language
English
Description
"When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima." --
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