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21) Altered carbon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself - a person's consciousness can be easily downloaded into a new body, making death nearly obsolete. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 26
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Mia is having a terrible day! Everything is going wrong. She woke up late and couldn't make her hair look perfect or brush her teeth, she probably failed a pop quiz, and she broke her glasses! But when her mom's cousin Laura arrives from Puerto Rico, she gives Mia a bracelet with a lucky charm. All of a sudden, Mia's luck changes for the better. Mia's thrilled--she'll never have a bad day again--or will she?"--Back cover.
23) The rambling
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Buddy Pennington is headed to river country. No one in his village will miss him anyway -- not even his mom, after what he and his bad luck did. He'll be better off with his daddy, Davey Boy Pennington, a wandering soul who has the best luck of anyone Buddy knows. Pop might even teach Buddy his legendary skills at Parsnit, a mysterious card game of magic, chance, and above all, storytelling. No one tells a better story than Pop. But no sooner are...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Publisher
Molino Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Pobre Greg! Definitivamente, está atravesando por una mala racha. Su mejor amigo, Rowley Jefferson, no le hace caso desde que tiene novia. La cosa está tan mal que hasta Manny, su hermano pequeño, tiene más amigos que él... Sin embargo, Greg no piensa rendirse y está dispuesto a todo con tal de convertirse, de una vez por todas, en el chico más popular del colegio. ¿Cambiará su suerte o su vida ésta destinada a ser el drama de un fracasado?
Greg...
25) Bun Bun Button
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Paige Darling loves the stuffed rabbit her grandmother has made for her, but when she ties a helium-filled balloon to Bun Bun Button the toy gets loose and goes floating away, and it may take some Darling luck to bring her home.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lilah isn't sure what hurt worse: the day Ethan left her to focus on his hockey career or the day he came back eight years later. He might think they can pick up just where they left off, but she's no longer that same girl and never wants to be again. Ethan wants his glory days back. And that includes having Lilah by his side. With her, he was magic. They were magic. All he has to do is make her see that. Just when Lilah might finally be ready to...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...
Author
Series
Nate el grande volume 6
Publisher
RBA Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"La suerte de Nate va de mal en peor... hasta que de repente ¡todo cambia y empieza a mejorar! Pero ¿por qué? Y ¿quánto durará la buena racha?"--Page 4, cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes - or misfortunes - in tea leaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow the fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the lives of those around her. To add to this plight, her romantic life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros, Place of publication not identified
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
Durante su tercera misión en Iraq, el soldado estadounidense Logan Thibault encuentra la fotografía de una joven sonriente medio enterrada en la arena del desierto. En la base, nadie la reclama y él acaba guardándola. De repente Logan empieza a tener suerte: gana en las partidas de póquer, sobrevive a un ataque que mata a dos de sus compañeros ... De vuelta a EE. UU., Logan buscará a la mujer retratada, aunque desde luego no se espera a la...
Author
Series
Critter Club volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After winning the lead role in a play, acing a spelling test, and finding money, second-grader Ellie wonders if the Critter Club animal shelter's newest animal--a little pink pig--is bringing her good luck.
33) Tarot
Author
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
To explore the Tarot is to explore ourselves, to be reminded of the universality of our longing for meaning, for purpose and for a connection to the divine. This 600-year-old tradition reflects not only a history of seekers, but our journey of artistic expression and the ways we communicate our collective human story. For many in the West, Tarot exists in the shadow place of our cultural consciousness, a metaphysical tradition assigned to the dusty...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, a division of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"De la mano de la autora de Sabrina y Corina, finalista del National Book Award, nos llega una historia épica de traición, amor y destino que abarca cinco generaciones de una familia chicana e indígena en el oeste de los Estados Unidos. En cada generación hay una vidente que mantiene las historias con vida. Luz 'Little Light" Lopez, lectora de hojas de té y lavandera, debe valerse por sí misma cuando su hermano Diego, encantador de serpientes...
36) Glorious
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Rising to a life of influence and wealth after a hard-luck youth in late nineteenth-century Arizona Territory, Cash McLendon flees in the wake of a tragedy and tries to win back the heart of a woman from his past only to be targeted by his former father-in-law.
An impoverished childhood on the streets helped Cash McLendon hone an instinct for self-preservation. Now, as son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass, his life lacks...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Karen tiene un día terrible. No encuentra sus jeans nuevos ni el premio en la caja de cereal, y Bubu el gato no quiere jugar con ella. ¡Hasta la castigan en su habitación! Lo intenta todo para que el día mejore, pero nada parece funcionar y la persigue la mala suerte. ¡Será este el peor día de su vida?"--Amazon
Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister! Karen is having...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The latest illustrated novel from Lincoln Peirce is a laugh-out-loud must-read starring the one and only cartooning genius, king of detention, and Cheez Doodle connoisseur, Nate Wright. Nate's not having the best of luck ... in fact; he's not having ANY luck. But with a little boost thanks to Chad's lucky foot, suddenly good luck is everywhere Nate turns! Nate's in the zone! But how long will it last?"
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 7
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As his school's centennial is coming up, Big Nate is stuck showing the dorky new kid around"--
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