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1) Elatsoe
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"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
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Her thousands of followers helped Mari Turner become an internet starlet. But when she breaks down and posts a video confessing she isn't the happy, in-love, inspirational online personality she's pretending to be, it goes viral and she receives major backlash. She makes an impulsive decision to hike the entire John Muir trail, something she was supposed to do with her late cousin, Bri. As Mari tries to navigate the terrain-- with Bri's boots and...
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"Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India's holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on the ghats. The soul is gone, the body is burnt, the...
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El mundo de Ellie no es exactamente como el nuestro. Están el colegio, los amigos y el centro comercial. Pero también existe Kirby, su perro fantasma, y un poder ancestral que corre por sus venas y le permite convocar a los espíritus de los que ya no están. Lo heredó de su abuela, junto con su nombre apache, Elatsoe, colibrí. Un pájaro muy pequeño, pero increíblemente fuerte, como ella. Cuando el espíritu de su primo Trevor la...
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"An electrifying debut from the Giller Prize-nominated author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives that takes readers for a wild ride with urban-gothic flair and delectably wicked humour. Lucy is a lapsed-Catholic whose adolescent pretentions to sainthood are unexpectedly revived. It all starts when her cousin Zoltan, in hospital following a bizarre incident at a party, offers her a disturbing deathbed confession. Lucy's grief takes an unusual...