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Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects, and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay. But out on the water, as the bright light of day gives way to darkness, the...
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OBD Los Angeles Times 2020 Book Prize Winners and Finalists - ADULT
OBD Los Angeles Times 2020 Book Prize Winners and Finalists - ADULT
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"In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner... These women in the club... These women who won't stop asking questions... These women who got what they deserved... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though not...
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"From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row. When a teenage boy runs away from his father's mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six people all desperate for hope and love, scattered across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to L.A....
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Arabella Caulfield, una de las tres hermanas huerfanas, se ha aferrado a una antigua profecia gitana como la unica manera de salvar a su familia de la eterna angustia. Ahora ella tiene doce dias para llegar a un lejano castillo frances y cumplir su destino: casarse con un principe. En el camino, Arabella conoce a Lucien Westfall, capitan naval condecorado y nuevo duque de Lycombe. Ella penso que el era un pirata. El penso que ella era una institutriz....