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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Knowing each other for eight years, when they were troublemaking kids sharing secrets and first kisses, Ethan and Rebecca, kept apart by grief and tragedy, will discover whether their hardships have torn them apart or will bring them closer than ever.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Adversity comes in many forms, and can make us feel alone in our pain, even years after the fact. But as wellness coach and licensed therapist Minaa B. observes, we can't heal in isolation. The best way to move past individual trauma is through connection and community-healing ourselves and one another. In this powerful and practical guide, Minaa shares therapeutic tools, client stories, and actionable insights to help you on your healing journey,...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edici�on.
Language
Español
Description
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Ta�ina (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Ta�ino ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Laura Rodríguez Colón tiene un plan: digan lo que digan los mayores, ella volverá a vivir con sus padres. ¿Puedes culparla? Es difícil hacer amigos siendo el niño nuevo en la escuela. Y si bien quedarse en casa de su tía está bien, no es lo mismo que estar en su propio espacio. Por eso, cuando Laura encuentra un cachorro, parece cosa del destino. Si puede entrenar al cachorro para que se convierta en un perro de terapia, entonces tal vez le...
Series
Publisher
Home Box Office Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Every family has its traditions, but for the Roys, they include lying, backstabbing and all sorts of other chicanery. Beginning where the first season dramatically left off, Season 2 follows the Roys - media tycoon Logan (Brian Cox) and his four grown children - as they struggle to retain control of their empire amidst internal and external threats. As Kendall (Jeremy Strong) deals with fallout from his hostile takeover attempt and guilt from his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated, and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings' lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with...
11) Salt the water
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political...
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