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3721) El hotel de cristal
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes him his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis,...
3722) Nestlings
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When they win an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan’s most revered buildings, new parents Ana and Reid get the lucky break they’ve been waiting for until disturbing events occur, unease and paranoia set in and needle-like bite marks appear on the baby.
3723) Mentiras piadosas
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
After a good deed unleashes a chain of events that cause Ridley Jones to question her entire life, she is thrown into a confusing world where everyone in her life seems like a stranger and she is forced to trust no one in order to save her own life.
3724) Hummingbird season
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, a young boy named Archie learns about community, genuine connection, and how not to lose hope"--Provided by publisher.
Archie's life--and the whole world--is turned upside down by Covid-19. Suddenly there are no more Friday night dinners out, no more going to school, no more hanging out with friends...no leaving the house at all. Even though he's inside with his family all day every day, Archie can't help...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Emily can't remember the last time she left the house. Or spoke to anyone besides her grandmother, beloved children's author Catriona Robinson. After Catriona's death, Emily is at a complete loss . . . until she gets an unexpected letter from the woman she loved most. Catriona has revealed there might be one last, lost unpublished manuscript in her wildly popular book series. And she's left a secret diary and trail of clues that only Emily can follow....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York ... He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods ... In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before the world she knew disappeared. A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their...
3728) Flores para Algernon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Mentally handicapped Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius temporarily.
3729) La Habana Perdida
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
En una isla cerca de la ventosa costa de Irlanda, se reúnen los invitados de la boda del año, el enlace entre Jules Keegan y Will Slater. Viejos amigos. Resentimientos del pasado. Familias felices. Envidias ocultas. Trece invitados. Un cadãver. En el momento de cortar la tarta, uno de los invitados aparece muerto. A su vez, una tormenta desata toda su furia sobre la isla. Todo el mundo estã atrapado. Todos tienen un secreto. Todos tienen un motivo."--Back...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 29
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is...
3732) Chopsticks: [a novel]
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Told almost entirely with images, this is the story of Glory, a piano prodigy. Brilliant and lonely, Glory falls in love with Frank, who moves in next door, and is soon unable to play anything but the song "Chopsticks.".
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through...
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