Alina.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jordan's days as the star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed ... Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her ... until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps Jordan discover a brand new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams--or will it just come between Jordan and her best friends on the basketball...
Author
Publisher
SJP Lit, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast, secrets...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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A bride-to-be convinced she's cursed in romance finds her luck changing--at exactly the wrong time. Maya Mirza is so convinced she's unlucky in love that she's come up with a list of laws to explain it. Most importantly ... Maya's Law #1: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. But that's about to change. Maya's headed to Pakistan for an arranged marriage with a handsome, successful doctor who ticks all the right boxes. First comes marriage, then...
Author
Series
Great puptective volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A precocious puppy with a penchant for solving mysteries is newly adopted into a family, causing havoc for their comfortable housecat"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
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Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria--born Dvora Kaganovitch--has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness. Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study mathematics. But the Soviets do not allow Jewish students--even...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, 'comfortable' confines of traditional gender roles: he has made it to retirement without learning how to fry an egg or use a vacuum cleaner. After all, he could always count on his wife, Barbara. But when one morning she can’t get up from bed anymore, everything changes. With biting humor and great warmth, Alina Bronsky writes about how Walter, nearing the end of his life, is suddenly forced...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this real-life detective story, a scientist and writer team up to try to discover how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometers away in Wuhan.
Author
Publisher
[History Through Fiction]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As her revolutionary neighbor mysteriously disappears during Josef Stalin's Great Terror purges, 18-year-old Regina suspects that she's the Kremlin's next target. Under cover of the night, she flees from her parents' communal apartment in 1930s Moscow to the 20th century's first Jewish state, Birobidzhan, on the border between Russia and China. Once there, Regina has to grapple with her preconceived notions of socialism and Judaism while asking herself...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the German Book Award
Favorite Read of the Year in the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal
In her second novel, Russian-born Alina Bronsky gives readers a moving portrait of the devious limits of the will to survive. The narrator of this rollicking family saga is the outrageously mischevious Rosa Achmetowna, whom The Millions...
Finalist for the German Book Award
Favorite Read of the Year in the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal
In her second novel, Russian-born Alina Bronsky gives readers a moving portrait of the devious limits of the will to survive. The narrator of this rollicking family saga is the outrageously mischevious Rosa Achmetowna, whom The Millions...
12) The Nian monster
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tong tong! The legendary Nian monster has returned at Chinese New Year. With horns, scales, and wide, wicked jaws, Nian is intent on devouring Shanghai, starting with Xingling! The old tricks to keep him away don't work on Nian anymore, but Xingling is clever. Will her quick thinking be enough to save the city from the Nian Monster?
13) Stealing thunder
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"A charming dragon fantasy novel where a trans girl named Razia runs away from home, finds a community of trans women known as hijras, falls in love, and steals back her dragon. By night, Razia Khan is one of the most sought-after dancing girls in the desert city of Bikampur. Later in the night, she is its most elusive thief. When Razia finds herself dancing for the maharaja's son, the handsome prince Arjun, she knows that she's playing with fire....
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"An action-packed picture book biography about Hollywood actor, stuntman, and beloved superstar Jackie Chan! A great read for Chan fans hoping to share their love of Rush Hour, Supercop, and Jackie's original brand of martial arts with their ready-to-tumble tyke. Pow! Bam! Wow! Jackie Chan has been making movies and amazing audiences with his original and comedic stunts for decades. Pow! Bam! Ow! But before he was an international star, Jackie grew...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A humorous novel following a Russian family--Max, his grandmother Oma Margarita and his grandfather--living in a refugee residence in Germany.
Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother-- a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna-- moved them from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. But she is not at all pleased with how things are run in Germany. While...
16) Note to self
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Publisher
Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ellis only has four days of her sophomore year left, and summer is so close that she can almost taste it. But, even with vacation just within reach, Ellis isn't exactly relaxed. Her father has been in a coma for years, the result of a construction accident, and her already-fragile relationship with her mother is strained over whether or not to remove him from life support. Her best friend fails even to notice that anything is wrong and Ellis feels...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this debut a Russian teenager living in Berlin dreams of taking revenge on the man who killed her mother.
Now an award-winning motion picture.
Seventeen-year-old Sascha Naimann was born in Moscow, but now lives in Berlin with her two younger siblings. She is precocious, independent, streetwise, and ever since her stepfather Vadim murdered her mother several months ago, an orphan. Unlike most of her peers, Sascha doesn't dream of escaping the...
18) Lunar new year
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Series
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Introduces lunar new year, describing the food, decorations, and activities of the holiday.
Author
Series
Hearts and sails volume 1
Publisher
Alina Rubin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In early 19th-century England, Ella has to disguise herself as a young man in order to pursue a medical career. Though she excels in her studies, she is dogged by fear of discovery and must choose between truth and lies, before her pretense is uncovered.
Author
Series
Hearts and sails volume 2
Publisher
Alina Rubin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ella Parker's male alias was a star pupil in medical school. But as a woman in 1810 England, Ella cannot find a job as a doctor's assistant. In a life-or-death emergency with a mother in labor, she oversteps her boundaries and risks arrest. Determined to practice medicine, she decides to join her mentor on the Neptune, a warship heading for open waters. Following an accident, she is quickly thrust into the role of ship surgeon, and her skills are...