Some of our March 2021 favorites Algunos de nuestros favoritos de marzo 2021
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Red Island House: A Novel
by Andrea Lee
The National Book Award-nominated author of Lost Hearts in Italy presents a tale of love and identity that follows two decades in a marriage between an African-American professor and her wealthy Italian husband in tropical Madagascar.
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How Beautiful We Were: A Novel
by Imbolo Mbue
A young revolutionary risks everything to secure her people’s freedom when her small African village is decimated by an American oil company that reneges on promises of reparation. By the award-winning author of Behold the Dreamers.
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Children of Chicago
by Cynthia Pelayo
When the Pied Piper returns, leaving his special calling card on the bodies of his brutally murdered victims, Detective Lauren Medina is torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe and keeping a promise she made long ago to him.
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer: A Novel
by Jamie Figueroa
After their mother’s death, two siblings in a tourist town deal with depression and try to make enough money performing for the wealthy visitors to afford a plane ticket out while dealing with the ghosts of their ancestors.
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Dead Space
by Kali Wallace
After a life-altering terrorist attack, a woman working dead-end security job for a powerful asteroid-mining company is contacted by a fellow victim who claims to have shocking information about their shared tragedy just before he is murdered in space.
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Brat: An '80s Story by Andrew McCarthyMost people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity.
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Feelings: A Story in Seasons
by Manjit Thapp
The illustrator of The Little Book of Feminist Saints charts her emotions throughout the course of a validating year spent mindfully examining the correlation between the seasons and her personal manifestations of anxiety, joy, pain and creativity.
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A curated manga collection of eight short stories and essays by famed manga author Naoki Urasawa, creator of the acclaimed series Monster and 20th Century Boys! Urasawa's characters confront fantastical elements ranging from psychic powers toattacks by giant monsters. On the flip side, the author philosophizes about his real-world experiences with the wild and wacky international music scene. Plus, a classic, funny animal tale, in Urasawa's inimitable style!
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Kafka and the Doll
by Larissa Theule
A picture book based on a true story describes how a little girl, heartbroken by the loss of her doll, is informed by a famous writer that the doll has merely embarked on great adventures, before initiating a correspondence with the little girl from the traveling doll’s perspective.
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The Anti-Book
by Raphael Simon
Mickey finds a book that promises to erase whatever is written in it, and after filling the page with all the things and people he dislikes, he finds himself in the anti-world where everything familiar is gone.
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Boardwalk Babies
by Marissa Moss
In the 19th century, there wasn't much hope for premature babies-until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sideshow at Coney Island, taking care of the tiniest newborns as part of a display to convince the public that incubators worked. Thousands of babies grew into healthy children as Boardwalk Babies, including Dr. Couney's own premature daughter.
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My Last Summer With Cass
by Mark Crilley
A coming-of-age graphic novel follows the experiences of childhood friends Megan and Cass, who approach a crossroad in their lives and art during a visit to the latter’s very different new home in New York City. By the Eisner Award-winning creator of the Mastering Manga series.
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Metahumano: Libera Tu Potencial Infinito
by Deepak Chopra
El maestro y autor bestseller Deepak Chopra descubre los secretos para superar nuestras limitaciones y acceder a un campo de posibilidades infinitas. ¿Cómo lo conseguimos? Convirtiéndonos en metahumanos.
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La Vida Contada por un Sapiens a un Neandertal
by Juan Jose Millas
El ingenio de Millás y la sabiduría de Arsuaga unidos para contar la vida como la mejor de las historias. -Tú y yo podríamos asociarnos para hablar de la vida; levantaríamos un gran relato sobre la existencia. ¿Lo hacemos? -dijo el escritor. -Lo hacemos -contestó el paleontólogo.
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Los Días en Casa
by Begona Oro
Esta es la historia de Jimena, de Nico, de Gala, de Marcos... y también la tuya. Has aprendido, has soñado, has reído, has crecido, has jugado y nos has enseñado muchísimas cosas a los mayores. Lo mejor de los días en casa es haberlos pasado contigo. Una mirada tierna y optimista a la situación causada por la COVID-19
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Evelyn del Rey Se Muda
by Meg Medina
Esta es una tierna historia sobre la amistad y los cambios en la vida, bellamente escrita por Meg Medina, realizada con las ilustraciones coloridas y vibrantes de Sonia Sánchez que describen el vecindario urbano de las niñas.
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Si Quisqueya Fuera un Color
by Sili Recio
Las ilustraciones y el texto sencillo retratan a la República Dominicana en todos sus tonos, desde la canela en el cacao hasta el negro azulado que solo se ve en los sueños.
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
by Amanda Gorman
Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.
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Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia
The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties.
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Libertie: A Novel
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Coming of age as a free-born Black woman in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson struggles against her mother’s medical aspirations for her when she finds herself more drawn to a musical career that could compromise her autonomy.
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Sleep Well, My Lady
by Kwei Quartey
A sequel to The Missing American finds private investigator Emma Djan going undercover to investigate the untimely death of a Ghanaian fashion icon who was found murdered days after breaking up with her boyfriend, a womanizing talk-show host.
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The Beginner's Guide to Growing Great Vegetables
by Lorene Edwards Forkner
A novice-friendly, month-by-month reference by the former Pacific Horticulture editor and author of The Handmade Garden includes coverage of such topics as soil health, sun exposure, correct watering and effective mulching and fertilizing.
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Feelings: A Story in Seasons
by Manjit Thapp
The illustrator of The Little Book of Feminist Saints charts her emotions throughout the course of a validating year spent mindfully examining the correlation between the seasons and her personal manifestations of anxiety, joy, pain and creativity.
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating."
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Wings of Ebony
by J. Elle
Taken away from her Houston neighborhood by the father she never knew in the aftermath of her mother’s murder, a Black teen arrives on a hidden island of magic, where she discovers her half-god identity and responsibility in helping protect the mortal and immortal worlds.
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Into the Dark
by Claudia Gray
Forced to leave behind his beloved Jedi Temple archives for a mission on the undeveloped frontier, padawan Reath Silas and his traveling companions are knocked off course by a galactic event and forced to shelter in an abandoned space station, where strange things begin to happen.
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The Valley and the Flood
by Rebecca Mahoney
When Rose Colter hears a voicemail from her own phone playing on her car radio, she follows the broadcast to the small town of Lotus Valley, where she discovers that she's the prophesied bringer of a catastrophic flood.
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Case File: Little Claws
by Eliot Schrefer
Former enemies Esquire Fox and Mr. Pepper the rooster form an animal rescue organization, where they race against time to save a polar bear cub on their first mission.
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While I Was Away
by Waka Takahashi Brown
When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she cannot understand the basic Japanese they speak to her, they make a drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her grandmother.
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