Malena Rosario is starting to believe that catastrophes come in threes. First, Hurricane María destroyed her home, taking her unbreakable spirit with it. Second, she and her mother are now stuck in Florida, which is nothing like her...
General fiction
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Author:Cuevas, MayraSummary: - Author:Cruz, AngieSummary:
From IMPAC Dublin Award finalist Angie Cruz, an urgent, beautifully told audiobook about a Dominican teenager's arranged marriage and immigration to New York City, set against the political turmoil of the 1960s. Fifteen-year-old...
- Author:Foon, DennisSummary:
Kip is addicted to the pure adrenaline rush that hits when the stakes are high and the bets are laid down. His gambling addiction uses up his money, his mother’s money—and then their real trouble begins. Dennis Foon’s believable...
- Author:Bateman, DavidSummary:
Discover the difference between living a life and simply enduring on in this cross-campus, cross-country comedy of manners, queerness, poetry and HIV. Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a...
- Author:Campbell, CurtisSummary:
Peter Thompkin needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors about him are becoming more elaborate by the day. Meanwhile, his best friend Alan (aka...
- Author:Shors, JohnSummary:
When Iris' father, a Vietnam vet, makes a dying wish that she take over the operation of a shelter for street children in Ho Chi Minh City, she agrees--and takes with her her long-time friend Noah, an Iraq War veteran.
- Author:Benjamin, ChrisSummary:
Demoralized by his job and dissatisfied with his life, Mark punches the clock with increasing indifference. He wanted to help people; he’d always believed that as social worker he would be able to make a difference in people’s lives....
- Author:MacFarlane, SharonSummary:
A bartender who discovers magic on a winter night, a pair of losers taking a baking class, and a middle-aged woman who goes on a wild limo ride with the ghost of John Diefenbaker. These are a few of the amazing array of characters who...
- Author:Stead, Robert J.C., Querengesser, Neil, Horton, JeanSummary:
Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage...
- Author:Murphy, JulieSummary:
Dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom, Willowdean has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American-beauty best friend,...
- Author:Tissières, HélèneSummary:
Ce livre est le premier à traiter des multiples circulations qui traversent les oeuvres littéraires écrites en français, provenant du Maghreb et de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Tout en s'écartant des scissions communément pratiquées entre...
- Author:Strong, TrevorSummary:
As bass player for the ’80s one hit wonder, Rock Viper, Edgar Martin toured the world, had sex with groupies and made thousands of people deaf. But the band broke up years ago and Edgar’s now middle-aged, out of work and desperate for...
- Author:Marshall, MeganSummary:
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America'...
- Author:Condé, MaryseSummary:
Babakar est medecin. Il vit seul avec ses souvenirs d'une enfance africaine, d'une mere aux yeux bleus qui vient le visiter en songe, d'un ancien amour, Azelia, disparue elle aussi, et autres reves de jeunesse d'avant son exil en...
- Author:Gavalda, AnnaSummary:
Ils sont quatre comme l'étaient les Trois Mousquetaires. Il y a d'abord Camille, anorexique qui dessine comme pas deux et travaille la nuit comme femme de ménage ; Frank, cuisinier génial abonné à Mon-Beauf-fait-de-la-...
- Author:Hausner, BeatrizSummary:
Enter the Raccoon documents a love affair between a woman and a raccoon. They are a couple that loves without preconceptions, whose being together eschews all limits until their beliefs in the self are put to the test. Their story...
- Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:
Entitlement is the tragic, wrenching story of Andy Kronk. After a lifetime intertwined with the Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy has finally forged a clean break. Mere months pass, however, before his past...
- Author:Charland, Marie-ClaudeSummary:
En ce magnifique printemps, Côte-Blanche connaît des jours sombres. Un climat de tension et de peur règne en maître parmi les habitants. L'entité malveillante qui hante ces lieux semble hélas fermement décidée à y demeurer...
- Author:Bacon, Moira-UashteskunSummary:
Après le départ de sa sœur Nissi, Mikun n'a plus de repères. Tout lui semble hostile : la grande ville, la vie à l'école et celle à la maison. La jeune fille de quinze ans en vient rapidement à croire qu'en étant moins...
- Author:Boswinkel, WimSummary:
Johan comes to Africa to manage a tea plantation. He meets Erina, and his life changes forever. The story takes a leap into the unknown, cleverly blending an African setting with the fantastic premise at its core: the arrival of a black...
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