K's Staff Picks


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Book cover for "The death of Vivek Oji"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds"--
Book cover for "La herencia de Orquídea Divina"
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Los Montoya est̀n acostumbrados a una vida sin explicaciones. Han aprendido a no preguntar por qǔ la despensa nunca est̀ vac̕a, o por qǔ su matriarca nunca abandona su casa en Cuatro R̕os, ni siquiera para las graduaciones, bodas o bautizos. Pero cuando Orqu̕dea Divina los invita a su funeral y a recibir su herencia, todos esperan descubrir los secretos que tan celosamente ha guardado durante toda su vida. Sin embargo, en lugar de eso, Orqu̕dea...
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"The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common...except for the fact that their daughters are married. When a nearby volcano erupts during their short vacation to a remote tropical island off the coast of Queensland, the two families find themselves stranded together for six weeks. With only two island employees making up the rest of their party, everyone is forced...
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Series:
Brooklyn brujas volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back.
Book cover for "Last night at the Telegraph Club"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
Book cover for "What's mine and yours"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...