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"White Ivy begins as many coming-to-America stories do: Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts desperate to assimilate with her American peers. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose patrician New England family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mom, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. But that's where the...

Emmeline Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold rural Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom practically predestined. Though it's 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon. Caught in a time bubble between a world war and the ferment of the 1960's, Emmy doesn't see that she has any say in her life, any choices at all. Only when...

Millie Mosbach and her brother David escaped to the United States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Now they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family. Millie works in the office responsible for rooting out the most dedicated Nazis from publishing. Like most of their German-born American colleagues, the siblings suffer from rage at Germany and...

"In the California mountains, Bab Gale has been allowed to roam free since her father was killed in a logging accident when she was barely six. When Conroy, a crooked lawyer, comes up with a plan to force her to marry him, she flees to the woods and the security of her familiar mountains. She finds herself in more trouble when she witnesses a murder and her repulsed suitor accuses her of the crime. Monte Baron finds the ideal spot in the Sierras where...

ometimes life isn't as simple as heroes and villains. For Zelda, a 21-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her older brother, Gert, life is best lived with some basic rules: A smile means "thank you for doing something small that I liked." Fist bumps and dabs = respect Strange people are not appreciated in her home. Tomatoes must go in the middle of the sandwich and not get the bread wet. Sometimes the most important things...

"At 21, Calla hasn't done a lot of things. She's never been kissed, never seen the ocean, never gone to an amusement park. But growing up, she witnessed some things no child ever should. She still carries the physical and emotional scars of living with a strung-out mother, Mona--secrets she keeps from everyone, including her close circle of college friends. But the safe cocoon Calla has carefully built is shattered when she discovers her mom has...

The fifth book in The Song of the Shattered Sands series is an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action. The reign of the kings of Sharakhai has been broken. The blood mage, Queen Meryam, now rules the city along with the descendants of the fabled twelve kings. In the desert, Ceda has succeeded in breaking the asirim's curse. Those twisted creatures are now free, but their freedom comes at great...

"The ... Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country ... Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter's health--and lessen the burden on their family--Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman...

"Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to various types of falls. And when their own family collapses in the wake of a revelation and a resulting devastating fight with their Catholic mother, the twins move to Prague, the city in which their 'falling curse' began. There, Marta and Nick try to forge a new life for themselves. But their ties to...

"Poppy Wyatt casi no se lo cree. Nunca en la vida ha tenido tanta suerte! Pero, justo cuando está a punto de casarse con el maravilloso Magnus Tavish, su final feliz empieza a desmoronarse. No solamente ha perdido el valioso anillo de compromiso durante un simulacro de incendio en un hotel, sino que también le han robado el móvil. Aturdida, desesperada, mira a su alrededor y ve un teléfono tirado en una papelera. "Perfecto, para mi!", piensa "Ahora...