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Puerto Rican seventeen-year-old Manny Rivera can't believe it when his mother and stepfather announce they are moving to the Bronx in New York from their home in Texas the summer before Manny begins his senior year. To make matters worse, they expect him to spend the summer helping his stepfather finish setting up the luxury condo he's managing there. Luckily, he quickly befriends Sasha Betancourt, who is protesting the building and the gentrification...
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"Twenty-five-year-old Kat Bennett has never felt at home anywhere, and especially not in crumbling Shelley House. According to her neighbors, she's prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat is plagued by guilt from her past. Seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Darling is Shelley House's longest resident, and if you believe the other tenants, she's as cantankerous and vindictive as they come. Except there's a good reason Dorothy spends...
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"Amane Fujimiya lives alone in a messy apartment--right next door to Mahiru Shiina, a veritable 'angel' who's the smartest, prettiest girl at school. When a chance encounter on a rainy day draws them together, Mahiru finds herself spending more and more time helping Amane get his life in order. And though they both insist they have no intention of dating the other, slowly but surely, something more than friendship begins to blossom"--Back cover.