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| Lost Lambs by Madeline CashA suburban family is in trouble in this buzzy, funny first novel. Bud and Catherine's relationship is sputtering, while their three girls have their own issues: Abigail, 17, is dating a security guard nicknamed "War Crimes Wes," Louise, 15, has an online boyfriend who encourages her to make bombs, and super-smart Harper, 13, investigates a sketchy local billionaire, who is her dad's employer. Read-alikes: Kevin Wilson's The Family Fang; Paul Murray's The Bee Sting |
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| So Old, So Young by Grant GinderOver the course of 20 years, six college friends find jobs, partners, and challenges as they move in and out of each other's lives. Organized around five get-togethers, the first on New Year's Eve in 2007 New York and the last at a funeral, this character-driven latest from Grant Ginder (The People We Hate at the Wedding) explores change, friendship, and growing older. Read-alikes: Steven Rowley's The Celebrants; Angela Flournoy's The Wilderness. |
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| This Is Not about Us by Allegra GoodmanThis "unsparingly frank, wryly funny" (Kirkus Reviews) linked story collection is narrated by three generations of the Rubenstein family as they navigate 74-year-old Jeanne's death, a feud between her older sisters over apple cake, and various other gatherings for holidays, divorces, a bat mitzvah, and more. Read-alikes: The Family Izquierdo by Ruben Degollado; Underburn by Bill Gaythwaite. |
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Los Tres Mundos / The Three Worlds
by Santiago Posteguillo
SPANISH: Tras el xito de Roma soy yo y Maldita Roma, contin a el gran proyecto literario de Santiago Posteguillo con su novela m s esperada: la conquista de las Galias por Julio C sar, narrada por el escritor que mejor nos hace vivir la Historia. En el 58 a. C., Roma, la Galia y Egipto eran tres mundos distintos que, sin saberlo, iban camino de un nico destino... Si en Roma soy yo conoc amos los or genes de Julio C sar y en Maldita Roma asist amos a su ascenso pol tico, ahora C sar se enfrenta a uno de los mayores desaf os hist ricos de todos los tiempos: la conquista de las Galias, un territorio siempre hostil a Roma, vasto, inmenso y, a ojos de los enemigos de C sar, un lugar inconquistable destinado a ser su tumba. Con una rigurosa documentaci n y un ritmo soberbio vivimos el sufrimiento y la pica de la guerra de las Galias, pero tambi n presenciamos la lucha pol tica fratricida en Roma y viajamos al exilio con el fara n Tolomeo XII, expulsado de Egipto en compa a de su hija, la joven y m tica Cleopatra. La Galia, Roma y Egipto, una colisi n inexorable de tres mundos legendarios en la que culmina la Trilog a del Ascenso, el primer ciclo de la serie sobre Julio C sar. ENGLISH: After the success of I Am Rome and Accursed Rome, Santiago Posteguillo's literary project continues with his most awaited novel: the conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar, narrated by a writer who makes us live History better than anyone. In 58 B.C.E., Rome, Gaul, and Egypt were three different worlds that, unknowingly, would meet the same fate... In I Am Rome we learned the origins of Julius Caesar, and in Accursed Rome we witnessed his political ascent, now Caesar faces one of the greatest historic challenges of all time: conquering Gaul, a territory forever hostile to Rome, vast, immense, and in the eyes of Caesar's enemies, an unconquerable place destined to be his tomb. With rigorous documentation and a superb rhythm, we experience the epic suffering of the Gallic Wars, but also witness the political struggles in Rome, and go into exile with Pharoah Ptolemy XII, cast out of Egypt in the company of his daughter, the young and mythical Cleopatra. Gaul, Rome, and Egypt, an inexorable collision of three legendary worlds that closes the Trilogy of the Ascent, the first part of this Julius Caesar series.
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| This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby PageWhen her new husband Joe dies of cancer, grief-stricken London book editor Tilly learns from their local bookseller that Joe has arranged for her to receive a book -- along with a note -- every month for a year. As the weeks pass, Tilly becomes friends with struggling bookstore owner Alfie and tries new things with Joe's literary encouragement in this charming read. For fans of: Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover. |
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I Came Back for You
by Kate White
A mother begins to challenge everything she's been told about her daughter's murder in a shocking novel of suspense by a New York Times bestselling author.Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning. Then a deathbed confession from the convicted killer throws Bree's life into a tailspin all over again. He readily confesses to murdering four girls. But not Melanie.At first, Bree and her ex-husband don't buy a word of it. Until inconsistencies about the crime emerge. So does the dreadful feeling that the monster who shattered Bree's family isn't lying. The only way she can get to the truth is to power through the trauma and return to the town in upstate New York where Melanie's life came to a brutal end.Bree will do anything to find justice for her daughter and finish this nightmare forever. Instead, it's just beginning. Not only could the real killer still be in their midst, but as Bree begins to dig through Melanie's past, what she discovers calls into question everything she has believed--about the crime and about Melanie herself.
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