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Kill the father

Sandrone Dazieri - Findaway World

"In this wildly inventive and powerfully intense thriller, which is already an international publishing sensation, two people, both shattered by their pasts, team up to solve a series of killings and abductions -- a ruthlessly planned escalation that turns out to be merely the visible...
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Midnight madness at the zoo

Sherryn Craig - Arbordale Publishing
Format: Print book

Between the time the crowds leave the zoo and the zookeeper makes her rounds, the animals come out for a rousing game of basketball.
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The hammer of Thor

Rick Riordan - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon, the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. This time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal...
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Gustavo : el fantasmita ti?mido

Flavia Z Drago - Findaway World
Format: Print book


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Sharuko: El Arquelogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello

Monica Brown - Children's Book Press
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating bilingual picture book biography of Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello, who unearthed Peru's ancient cultures and fostered pride in the country's Indigenous history. Growing up in the late 1800s, Julio Tello, an Indigenous boy, spent time exploring...
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See You On a Starry Night

Lisa Schroeder - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Juliet has just moved to a beachside town with her newly separated mother and her moody older sister. When she meets their new neighbor, Emma, the girls form an instant bond. Emma's big family takes Juliet in, and the girls have fun together -- starting with the night they throw bottles...
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La Princesa and the Pea

Susan Middleton Elya - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The Princess and the Pea gets a fresh twist in this charming bilingual retelling. El prncipe knows this girl is the one for him, but, as usual, his mother doesn't agree. The queen has a secret test in mind to see if this girl is really a princesa. But the prince might just have a sneaky...
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Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States

Warren Binford - Workman Publishing Company; Bilingual edition
Format: (Spanish) Hardcover

A moving picture book for older children and families that introduces a difficult topic, amplifying the voices and experiences of immigrant children detained at the border between Mexico and the US. The children's actual words (from publicly available court documents) are assembled...
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Rick Steves Spanish Phrase Book & Dictionary

Rick Steves
Format: Paperback


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Pain and Glory

Pedro Almodóvar - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

PAIN AND GLORY tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) , a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity,...
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