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Quintana, Pilar

Summary: "In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Johansen, Iris

Summary: Trained by the military as an assassin, Elena Kyler is forced into a deadly alliance with Sean Galen, the most dangerous man she knows, when she is targeted for death by Rico Chavez, a ruthless killer with unlimited resources.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

John-Kehewin, Wanda

Summary: "In this young adult novel, fourteen-year-old Eva Brown is coping with difficulties at home and at school, most significantly her mother's alcoholism. When Eva's nohkum (grandmother) is hospitalized, her mother struggles to care for Eva and her younger brother. After Eva's brother wanders away, he is sent to live with a foster family and Eva finds herself in a group home. Furious at her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOH

Sanchez, Santiago Jose

Summary: In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Canizales (Harold Jiménez Canizales)

Summary: Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family, it will mark the first step toward reclaiming their land.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CAN

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