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This exceptional debut novel captures a sparkling new voice and irrepressible heroine in a celebration of storytelling sure to thrill fans of Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi and Jenna Evans Welch! When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti and writing the report of a lifetime. You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about anything? Actually, a lot.

Have Yourself a Very British Christmas is a twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest aspects of the Christmas holiday, with cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who've eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale.

After nearly two hundred years of housing retardants, as they were once known, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history. Ella Jules, having arrived at Beechwood at the age of eight, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ella's aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home, much to the distress of Ella's siblings. The five adult Jules children, haunted by their early memories of their sister, are converging on the family home to talk some sense into their aging parents.

Natalie Walker is the reason for her brother and sister's imprisonment. Years later, she receives an inheritance letter for their family home, the only caveat is that Natalie must claim it with her siblings.

Joey Green returns home to care for his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia. Although his fathers short-term memory is fading, his oldest memories begin to reveal secrets and scandals long forgotten.

Mother and daughter Magdalena and Mila acquire a house in the White Valley of Cornwall in the summer of 1954. Magda has grand plans to restore the house to its former glory as a venue for glittering parties. Her grown daughter, Mila, just wants to escape the scandal in her past and make a safe and happy home for her little girl, Janey, a solitary, precocious child blessed with a vivid imagination, much of which she pours into stories about her magical plush toy, Rabbit. But Janey's rabbit isn't the only magical being around.

Après plusieurs années d'absence, un homme resurgit dans la vie de sa compagne et de leur jeune fils. Il les entraîne aux Roches, une vieille maison isolée dans la montagne où lui-même a grandi auprès d'un patriarche impitoyable. Entourés par une nature sauvage, la mère et le fils voient le père étendre son emprise sur eux et édicter les lois mystérieuses de leur nouvelle existence. Hanté par son passé, rongé par la jalousie, l'homme sombre lentement dans la folie. Bientôt, tout retour semble impossible.

From award-winning author Mitali Perkins and comes Between Us and Abuela , a timely debut audiobook about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States. It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” ( Time ) “Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”— Vulture Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Time , Vogue , Esquire , Vulture , and Autostraddle PEN/Hemingway Award Winner - Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and

EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now. "An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." -R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me. After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same.