farrar straus and giroux byr apr 2023 (6 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Edgar Award winning middle grade mystery by Adrianna Cuevas-author of the Pura Belpré Honor Book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez-perfect for fans of Claribel Ortega's The Ghost Squad and Louis Sachar's Holes.'Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite fantasy role-playing game, than face his father's increasing restrictions and his mother's fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could've imagined-a month working on a ranch in New Mexico, far away from his friends, their game, and his mom's quesitos in Miami. Life at Rancho Espanto isn't as bad as Rafa initially expected, mostly due to Jennie, a new friend with similarly strong opinions about Cuban and Korean snacks, and Marcus, the veteran barn manager who's not as gruff as he appears. But when Rafa's work at the ranch is inexplicably sabotaged by a man (or a ghost) who may not be what he seems, Rafa and Jennie explore what's behind the strange events at Rancho Espanto-and discover that the greatest mystery may have been with Rafa all along.2024 Edgar Award Winner2025 Rhode Island Middle School Book Award ListVermont Golden Dome Book Award ListNew Mexico Battle of the Books selection for Elementary and Middle School.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this stand-alone middle-grade novel set in the same world as A Dog-Friendly Town, Josephine Cameron delivers a mystery full of prime-time puppers, Houdini-inspired whodunits, and a reminder that puzzles are best solved with a little teamwork.Eleven-year-old Rondo McDade is starting to feel left out. His older brother, Epic, is heading into high school, and his younger sister, Elvis, is always mad at him. His parents keep pushing him out of their dog-friendly bed and breakfast, the Perro del Mar, and into the company of the new kid in town while a famous TV show films on location at the Perro. It's an important week for the town, and everyone knows Rondo has a history of causing trouble. Even if he doesn't mean to.But when canine actors start to disappear, including Carmelito's most beloved celebrity doggo, Pico Boone, Rondo is sure he knows who did it. Can he win back his family's trust and crack the case before Pico is lost forever.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Bridgerton, a Regency romance by Rosalyn Eves about three young women, their big dreams, and a London Season gone awry.When Thalia, Kalliope, and Charis set off to Regency London for their first Season, they each have clear goals-few of which include matrimony. Thalia means to make her mark among the intelligentsia and publish her poetry, Charis hopes to earn her place among the scientific elite, and Kalliope aims to take the fashionable ton by storm. But this Season, it doesn't take long for things to fall apart. Kalli finds herself embroiled in scandal and reliant upon an arranged marriage to redeem her reputation, Thalia's dreams of publication are threatened by her attraction to a charming rake, and Charis finds herself an unexpected social hit-and the source of a family scandal that her heart might not survive. Can this roller-coaster Season find its happily ever after An Improbable Season is a voicy, swoony regency drama about falling in love-with another person, with new opportunities, and with yourself.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Katy Simpson Smith's The Weeds, two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own. In 1854, a woman pushes through the jungle of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. As punishment for her misbehavior, she has been indentured to the English botanist Richard Deakin, for whom she will compile a flora. She is a thief, and she must find new ways to use her hands. If only the woman she loves weren't on a boat, with a husband. But love isn't always possible. She logs 420 species. Through a list of seemingly minor plants and their uses-medical, agricultural, culinary-these women calculate intangible threats: a changing climate, the cost of knowledge, and the ways repeated violence can upend women's lives. They must forge their own small acts of defiance and slip through whatever cracks they find. How can anyone survive Lush, intoxicating, and teeming with mischief, Katy Simpson Smith's The Weeds is a tense, mesmerizing page-turner about science and survival, the roles women are given and have taken from them, and the lives they make for themselves.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, 'Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility' (Saidiya Hartman).A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past-public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal-with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages-sometimes about language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature-always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.At the heart of Ordinary Notes is the indelible presence of the author's mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. 'I learned to see in my mother's house,' writes Sharpe. 'I learned how not to see in my mother's house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words.' Using these gifts and other ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to the page. She practices an aesthetic of 'beauty as a method,' collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a 'Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness,' and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces.4-color art throughout.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - «No recuerdo. Cuéntamelo todo, Pepito. Cuéntame de Cuba».Cuando la fallida invasión de Bahía de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de doce años, toma la difícil decisión de enviarlo solo a la Florida. Ante la idea de vivir en otro país por sí mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre.La vida en Estados Unidos presenta toda una nueva serie de desafíos. Perdido en un mar de angloparlantes, Cumba tiene que navegar una nueva ciudad, una nueva escuela y una nueva libertad por su propia cuenta. Con cada día que pasa, Cumba se siente más confiado en su nuevo entorno, pero continúa preguntándose si su familia volverá a estar completa otra vez. ¿O acaso sus familiares se mantendrán fuera de su alcance, a 90 millas, al otro lado del mar.