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Minerva Soledad Miranda is determined to reach her goals, despite shouldering more responsibility than the other kids at school—like caring for her two sisters while her mom works two jobs. But one night, Minerva's mom doesn't come home, and Minerva has to figure out what to do. Was Mamá snapped up by immigration enforcement? Will the girls be sent to foster homes or holding centers for migrant kids? Minerva and her sisters can't let anyone know Mamá has disappeared. They'll just pretend everything is normal until she comes back.

Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the refuge of her hometown of Mammoth Lakes, California. There, she begins working again with Yosemite Search and Rescue, where a case she worked a decade ago continues to haunt her.

Little Slice has dreams of becoming a gourmet dish. Alas, he is just a simple bit of bread! He is also shy yet so desperately wants to be included in the Kitchen Crewe’s big adventures. Will this tiny underdog gain the courage to join in?

Mothers don't write. Mothers give life. How could a woman be capable of neglecting her children? How could she kill them? Is motherhood a prison? Complete with elements of a traditional thriller, this a groundbreaking novel in which the chronicle and the essay converge. Katixa Agirre reflects on the relationship between motherhood and creativity, in dialogue with writers such as Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing. Mothers Don't plumbs the depths of childhood and the lack of protection children face before the law.

Dog Days Of Summer/Sit Stay Heal has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Rancher's Law/Dog Days Of Summer has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

This bundle includes Freddie Ramos Stomps the Snow, Freddie Ramos Rules New York, Freddie Ramos Hears It All, and Freddie Ramos Adds It All Up.

This bundle includes Freddie Ramos Tracks Down a Drone, Freddie Ramos Gets a Sidekick, Freddie Ramos and the Meteorite, and Freddie Ramos Powers Up.

On the cusp of forty, Justine Bailen, better known as Jo, works for an all-female detective agency based in Tucson, Arizona. While staking out a cheating spouse, she learns that her long-estranged best friend from childhood, Rose, is missing, and that Rose’s mother wants to hire Jo to find her. This case is all kinds of wrong for Jo, but she has no choice but to head back to her hometown, an hour north and a world away from Tucson.

Senior Sunrise is the highlight of the summer - an epic overnight at the beach to kick off senior year. But for Natalia and Ethan it's the first time seeing each other after junior prom, when they almost crossed the line from best friends to something more and ruined everything. Now, after ghosting each other, Natalia is desperate to pretend she doesn't care and Ethan is desperate to fix his mistake. But when it's time for the senior class tradition of writing letters to themselves - what they wish they would do this year if they were braver - Natalia pours her heart out. So does Ethan.

Angel View manager Annie McCade thought her twin niece and nephew could join her for Christmas, with her absent employer being none the wiser. Until the ranch's new owner, Tate Sheridan, shows up out of the blue ready to host Christmas for his family and Annie's plans are upended. As Christmas approaches, Annie must help Tate as he prepares to throw a traditional family Christmas. But when it benefits them both to pretend to be each other's long-lost love and appease his interfering family, can real love be far behind?

Final requests before death have turned into a commercial - and threatening - frenzy. What if you got to take one thing with you when you died - and corporations and governments all wanted in on what you request? When teenage Powa uploads on social media a partial video of her best friend's final request and the strange things that followed, she has no idea what she has triggered. Meanwhile, Powa is trying to avoid the people who insist on seeing the rest of that video. What is she hiding?

Popular star basketball player Troy Bolton and academically gifted beauty Gabriella Montez come from different worlds at East High. But when they both decide to audition for the school musical, magic happens! Follow Troy, Gabriella, and their friends as they navigate high school together in the Encore Edition of the junior novelizations from this beloved trilogy.

Popular star basketball player Troy Bolton and academically gifted beauty Gabriella Montez come from different worlds at East High. But when they both decide to audition for the school musical, magic happens! Follow Troy, Gabriella, and their friends as they navigate high school together in the Encore Edition of the junior novelizations from this beloved trilogy.

Cami and Isa are very different sisters. Cami always wants to be perfect. She worries about it every single day! She follows all the rules, does all her homework on time, and never makes a fuss. Isa, on the other hand, is confident everything she does is perfect, even when it’s most definitely not. Her drawing on the wall? Perfect. Her bowling ball bouncing into the other lane? Perfect-er.

Her parents named her Calico Watts, a name she hates as much as she does the rest of her life. Growing up a child of divorce in Weldon Spring, Missouri has left Cali numb, without identity or purpose, sapped of any ambition for the future and even for the one thing all teenagers crave: freedom. Cali’s mother, Karen, is not lacking ambition, but it’s all toxic.

To find out who was claiming ownership of the only place he'd ever called home, Harry Maxwell knew he'd have to do some investigating. So the wounded lieutenant changed his name a little. Altered a few facts. All for a good cause-get in, get the truth, get out.

To celebrate the end of high school, Izzy Morales joins her best friend Kassidy and five friends on a luxury 1920s-themed getaway at the glamorous Ashwood Manor. There, Izzy and her friends party in vintage dresses and expensive diamonds - until Kassidy's boyfriend turns up dead. And when a raging storm traps them on the island with two detectives, the sparkling young socialites become the prime suspects in his murder. There's the girlfriend, and the other girl. The old friend, and the new friend. The brooding enigma. And then, there's Izzy - the girl who brought the knife.