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In her recent novel And Don’t Look Back, Rebecca Barrow has penned a psychological thriller with plot twists that parallel the intensity of a Criminal Minds drama. 作为这个故事的中心人物, 巴罗创造了哈洛福特, 谁一生都在逃亡, moving to a new location whenever something triggers her mom’s paranoia. As a result, Harlow has had to reinvent, build, and dismantle several identities. 鉴于这一现实, the moments during which Harlow feels most at home are those moments spent with her mom in the car, “wherever they’ve been in the rearview mirror, 不管他们像谁一样逐渐消失阅读更多→

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Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall is set in Caball Hollow in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, 传说和爱情在那里茁壮成长. Pearsall tells the story of the James family and the lives of its women whose legacy is superstition. 一个被怀疑是女巫的家庭, the James women use minerals and locally grown plants to create infusions, 药酒, 和安慰;. With these homemade remedies and whispered words, they treat people’s ailments. 然而, this story extends beyond a family and natural remedies to become about our deepest desires, 对可能性的信念, and the sacrifices we are willing to make in the name of阅读更多→

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通过他的小说《welcome皇冠地址》, Matt Mendez shares a story that spans generations and blurs genres. A sequel to Barely Missing Everything, the style of this follow-up is unique in that multiple stories are being conveyed within its pages. Told from various view points and with screen play scripts, 闪回, and Lotería cards interwoven in the prose, The Broke Hearts illustrates how the past never leaves us and how “being a warrior is about doing the hard thing every time” (4). Mendez also shares insight about having hopes and dreams but how life gets in the way with moments of heart break. JD桑切斯阅读更多→

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Mexican-American author Pedro Martín writes a graphic memoir with his latest creation, Mexikid. Largely, it features a 1970s setting and recounts Pedro’s memories growing up. As a Mexican his name is Pedro, but as an American, he is Peter. The dual names are all part of being a Mexikid, according to Martín whose feet are planted on American soil but whose heart belongs to both sides of the border and whose head is trying to fill in the gaps in his own heritage story. A creative, barrel-shaped boy, Pedro likes comic books and collects action figures. These characteristics often make him the target of others’阅读更多→

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Sixth grader Frances Bishop is prone to worry. She wonders how thoughts can be compartmentalized or put into a box when “worry is like water. 它漏了。”. Furthermore, “no one chooses to worry. Worry just is” (99), and it causes Franny to get herself into a tangle. Because her mother is a former drug addict, Franny has had to be the responsible one, 让她一直担心. As an escape, Franny has math where the problems have clear steps and a solution. 数学是她的乐事. Franny also has an ally in her mother’s Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous sponsor, Mimi, who阅读更多→

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Anyone wishing for a Halloween thriller will likely find it in The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan. 这个恐怖的故事, Dugan creates Charlene Addison Barnes, 也就是樱桃, 斯隆·托马斯, two survivors of a mass murder at Camp Money Springs where they had taken summer jobs as camp counsellors. Able to diffuse tension with a single sentence, Cherry survives the killing spree of a “save the Earth” cult with her memory intact. 然而, like a rabbit in a snare, Sloan is caught in a time loop in her head. Although Sloan wants to study social work and save the world, her perfect plans阅读更多→

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凤凰号复活, Judy McCluney has written a story about the trials faced by two teens trying to make their way in the world.  Although told in a fairly straightforward, 现实的时尚, McCluney does apply a richly developed allusion to the Egyptian myth of the phoenix while also setting the story in Arizona. Uprooted by her dad’s job in the Air Force, Sami has just moved from California to South Phoenix. 最重要的是, she wishes to fly away to a place of possibility where she hopes to work as a veterinarian. Unable to rely on her parents for monetary support to attend college, Sami阅读更多→

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Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford is a powerful textual tribute to “the ancestors who carried us through” accented by scratchboard-like illustrations by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. 在这部诗歌小说中, the Weatherfords conjure the voices of their ancestors and speak to them and through them with their art. Seeking answers to key questions: “At what age is hope born, 什么时候开始出现抵抗, 梦何时凋零?”, the mother/son pair tells a moving story of their family tree. Their goal is to give voice to their African-American ancestors who were “marginalized, 柔和的, or muzzled” as they tilled fields into阅读更多→