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Language
English
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"When precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in an Adirondack hunting lodge for two months. [This debut novel explores] the repercussions of that formative summer, when two girls who previously did not know each other shared an experience that would shape all their days to come"--
Precocious Lois. Pretty Carly May. At twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across...
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Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Agurtzane Loizaga, profesora de la universidad de Bilbao, se mudó hace poco con su pareja a un caserío de la comarca de Las Encartaciones. En ese baserri aislado se creían felices hasta que, de la noche a la mañana, su novia desaparece. Aunque la policía le resta importancia, una serie de indicios le hacen sospechar que su marcha no ha sido voluntaria. Osmany Arechabala lleva meses afincado en Bilbao, lejos de su Cuba natal, cuando un viejo...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came across an abandoned theater. Marta decided it was hers. She painted her ideal audience on its walls and danced her own dances until her death five decades later. In the present day, Gia has ended a relationship and taken a leave from her job in film studies at a university. She is sleeping fifteen hours a night and ignoring calls from her...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1999, Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher at MIT, found herself underpaid and denied the credit and resources given to men of lesser rank. Galvanized by the flagrant favoritism, Hopkins led a group of sixteen women on the faculty in a campaign that prompted MIT to make the historic admission that it had long discriminated against female scientists. The MIT sixteen were formidable in their respective fields: their...
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