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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
3) Son
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Giver quartet volume 4
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English
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Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
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Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 5
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English
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Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
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Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 2
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English
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A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.
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Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 4
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2010.
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English
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Llama Llama becomes overwhelmed as Christmas preparations progress, until his mother reminds him of the real gift the holiday brings.
10) Room: a novel
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English
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Told entirely in the language of five-year-old Jack, describes the bond between parent and child, and what it means to journey from one world to another.
11) Sleepy bears
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English
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When winter comes, six sleepy bears are rhymed to sleep by Mother Bear.
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Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 1
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English
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At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
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2021.
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English
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"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...
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