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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy--a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this tasty tale that includes 30 groovy stickers, Pete and his family try to make their own tacos when the tacqueria is closed, even though they don't have the typical toppings, but some creativity and problem-solving become the right ingredients to save Taco Tuesday!
24) Wild houses
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sure enough, she struggles with stumbles and bumbles at home, trips and blips on the bus, and bashes and crashes in the classroom. But a lesson on gravity helps her understand what's really going on. And after a visit to a science center, Leda's mood is lifted...just in time for her to tumble-- happily!--into bed." --publisher's website.
27) Beach pug
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
It is Bub the pug's first trip to the beach, and Bella wants to enter him in a pet-surfing contest, but Bub is scared of the ocean and refuses, so he hopes to make it up to Bella by presenting her with the treasure at the end of the map he found.
Author
Series
Publisher
DisneyHyperion
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Penelope Rex might finally have bitten off more than she can chew ? a pet sabretooth tiger! Most kids have dogs and cats and fish and guinea pigs. Penelope Rex has Mittens. Penelope wasn't sure she even wanted a pet when Mittens came into her life. But now that he's here, she is determined to make the best of it. Pets, especially ones that are six hundred pounds with six-inch-long teeth, can cause very big, very messy problems."
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter's reputation, it's Philadelphia's strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams--with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . . When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"According to the narrator of this book, a unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark were riding a bicycle. But they say that's not true, and they just want to take a load off for once. They're tired of being told what to do by the bossy storyteller! And who is a reader supposed to believe, anyway--a book's narrator or its characters?"--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Agnes "Ness" Larkin has been out of the spotlight since her quick departure twenty years ago from a starring role in a hit teen TV drama. When the show is tapped for a reboot, no one is more surprised than Ness that she signs on to rejoin the cast, leaving behind a normal--if not exactly thrilling--life in Toronto. Also back for round two are Libby, Ness's former best friend and soon-to-be makeup-empire magnate, and Hayes, Ness's one-that-got-away,...
34) Begin again
Author
Publisher
Avon, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it...
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A chimpanzee and a kinkajou took a walk one day through the wild. The kinkajou spotted buttercups, so he plucked them up and smiled. But when the chimp takes a big sniff of those buttercups... Ahhh-CHOO! The giant ChimpanSneeze sends the kinkajou flying, causing a chain of disasters for all their animal buddies. Can the kinkajou find his way back to his chimpanzee friend?"--
36) Zander stays
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Zander the goose decides not to go south for the winter with the rest of his flock. Having to adapt to his new snowy environment, Zander asks for advice from forest animals. When Zander is about to give up, a little girl finds him and brings him home. Finally finding a perfect "adaptation" in the little girl's house, Zander spends the winter with his new friend. When the other geese return, they humorously move into the house as well."--
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Two nursing home roommates become friends and plot an adventure.
"Joel hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. He's fed up with life in the nursing home, and begins to plan a way out. Then his new roommate, a retired soap opera actor named Frank, start turning the nursing-home community upside down. Frank is the only one who listens to and stands up for Joel. When Joel explains his burgeoning plan, they embark together...
39) Housemoms
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Accepting a job as a sorority housemom after her financier husband is wanted for embezzlement, CeCe meets a coworker who is also starting a new life- in the witness protection program after witnessing a mob hit at her strip club.
40) The puppy sister
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
A young boy is astonished when his new puppy begins to change into a human girl who says to him, "I love you, brother!"
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