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2) Flowerheart
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Sixteen-year-old Clara accidentally curses her father with wild magic, and in order to save him, she makes a dangerous bargain with a local wizard, who happens to be her childhood best friend.
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2023 FPPL Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List
2023 Read Widely: North America & The Caribbean
2023 Read Widely: North America & The Caribbean
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Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she's chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity.
When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York...
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A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.
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1920s London isn't the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions, but research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to beat the odds in a male-dominated field at the University College of London. She embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably charming Dr. Michael Lee, traveling the countryside with him in response to reports of poisonings. But when Detective Inspector Green is given a case with a set of unusual...
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"Después del fallecimiento de su pareja, Marina se da cuenta de que está totalmente perdida: había ocupado el asiento del copiloto durante demasiado tiempo. Buscando empezar de cero acepta un trabajo provisional en una curiosa floristería llamada El Jardín del Ángel. Allí conocerá a otras mujeres muy diferentes entre sí, pero que, como ella, se encuentran en una encrucijada vital con respecto a su trabajo, sus amantes, sus deseos o su familia....
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Tales of Sasha volume 10
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Flying horses from the Royal Guard arrive in Crystal Cove to deliver a message for Sasha, but in order to open it she must first solve a riddle, which requires her to find the petals of rare and different-colored flowers.
12) Flower and thorn
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Irinya has wanted to be a flower hunter ever since her mother disappeared into the mysterious mist of the Rann salt flats one night. Now she uses her knowledge of magical flowers to help her caravan survive in the harsh desert. When her hunting partner and childhood friend finds a priceless silver spider lily-- said to be able to tear down kingdoms and defeat an entire army-- Irinya knows this is their chance for a better life. Then she is tricked...
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"A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice! Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she'd earned minimum wage and even less respect, she's bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can't seem to stop saying yes. With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides...
14) A piece of home
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When Hee Jun's family moves from Korea to West Virginia he struggles to adjust to his new home. He can't understand anything the teacher says, and even the sky seems smaller and darker. Hee Jun begins to learn English words and make friends on the playground. One day at a classmate's house he sees a flower he knows from his garden in Korea: mugunghwa, or rose of Sharon. Hee Jun is happy to bring a shoot to his grandmother to plant a "piece of home"...
15) Norton and Alpha
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Norton and his robot dog like to collect objects that they use to create new inventions, but they think there is no possible use for the flower they find on one of their walks.
17) Piastunka róż
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Książka przedstawia historię Flory, która znalazła się na zakręcie po dramatycznych wydarzeniach. Spowodowały diametralną zmianę w jej stylu życia i wywołały poczucie nieustającego niepokoju, lęku, stresu i ogromu negatywnych emocji, które targają nią bezustannie każdego dnia. Kiedy przestaje wychodzić z pokoju, może liczyć na wsparcie siostry, która podstępem namawia ją do walki o życie i powrót do normalnego funkcjonowania....
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Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother's enchanting flowers and their hidden messages shelter her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy changes her life irrevocably, 9-year-old Alice goes to live with the grandmother she never knew existed, on a native flower farm that gives refuge to women who, like Alice, are lost or broken. In the Victorian tradition, every flower has a meaning and, as she settles into her new life,...