Candelaria

CandelariaBy: Melissa Lozada Oliva A Best Book of 2023 USA Today, Vogue. com, HipLatina, Largehearted Boy "With tongue in cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism, this novel is an unforgettable exploration of diasporic identity politics and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost." Xochitl Gonzalez, The TODAY Show "Lozada Oliva's apocalyptic debut novel in prose is an ode to complicated family dynamics, the overwhelming ways love can consume and eat us

to the vicious competition among small ice-cream makers and the turf wars among ice-cream trucks

Grace MacBride

as compelling as any character

Drawn from hundreds of interviews and conversations with dog lovers and canine professionals

to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature

children learn emotional intelligence - they are encouraged to show kindness every day and realise that big or small acts make a difference

and travellng with children

When a young girl and her older brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel

Or feel as if you’re down in old Havana with a Cuba Libre or minty Mojito

a Toys for Tots fundraiser—things seem like they could start shaping up at last

And now that someone unexpected has returned to Bayview

No one worries that an eagle will fly too far and not come home—a fact Axel wishes his mother understood