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New Releases

A great mix of new releases this week that make it hard to choose which exactly one I will buy for myself to celebrate making it to spring break. What would you choose?

A Crown So Cursed (The Nightmare–Verse #3) by L.L. McKinney Imprint

In the third book in L.L. McKinney’s Nightmare-Verse trilogy, Alice gets one last chance to save Wonderland from itself.

Alice and the gang are trying to recover from recent events—but members of her crew start having weird dreams. The same dreams. It seems the evil in Wonderland may not be as defeated as they thought—because someone’s building an army of Nightmares to attack the mortal world. But before Alice jumps into battle, she discovers she has a personal connection to Wonderland, and she must face what it means for the fight ahead. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads

The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila Levine Querido

Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She’s starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Jose, a senior boy she’s getting to know. She’s confident her initiation into her family’s bruja tradition will happen soon.

But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes are off. And Yolanda’s initiation begins with a series of troubling visions of the violence this boy threatens. How can Yolanda protect her community, in a world that doesn’t listen? Only with the wisdom and love of her family, friends, and community – and the Brujas Diosas, her ancestors and guides.

The Making of Yolanda La Bruja is the book this country, struggling with the plague of gun violence, so desperately needs, but which few could write. Here Lorraine Avila brings a story born from the intersection of race, justice, education, and spirituality that will capture readers everywhere. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads

Throwback by Maurene Goo Zando Young Readers

Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.

Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one. Samantha Kang has never gotten along with her mother, Priscilla—and has never understood her bougie-nightmare, John Hughes high school expectations. After a huge fight between them, Sam is desperate to move forward—but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back.

To her shock, Sam finds herself back in high school . . . in the ’90s . . . with a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now this Gen Z girl must try to fit into an analog world. She’s got the fashion down, but everything else is baffling. What is “microfiche”? What’s with the casual racism and misogyny? And why does it feel like Priscilla is someone she could actually be . . . friends with?

Sam’s blast to the past has her finding the right romance in the wrong time while questioning everything she thought she knew about her mom . . . and herself. Will Sam figure out what she needs to do to fix things for her mom so that she can go back to a time she understands? Brimming with heart and humor, Maurene Goo’s time-travel romance asks big questions about what exactly one inherits and loses in the immigrant experience. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads

Viva Lola Espinoza! by Ella Cerón Kokila

A debut young adult novel that’s BOOKSMART with a dash of magic, about a Mexican American teen who spends the summer in Mexico City, meets two very cute boys, attempts to learn Spanish, and uncovers a family secret that changes her life forever.

Lola Espinoza is cursed in love. Well, maybe not actually cursed — magic isn’t real, is it? When Lola goes to spend the summer with her grandmother in Mexico City and meets handsome, flirtatious Rio, she discovers the unbelievable truth: Magic is very real, and what she’d always written off as bad luck is actually, truly . . . a curse. If Lola ever wants to fall in love without suffering the consequences, she’ll have to break the curse. She finds an unlikely curse-breaking companion in Javi, a seemingly stoic boy she meets while working in her cousin’s restaurant. Javi is willing to help Lola look into this family curse of hers, and Lola needs all the help she can get. Over the course of one summer — filled with food, family, and two very different boys — Lola explores Mexico City while learning about herself, her heritage, and the magic around us all. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads

Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith Candlewick Press

Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He’s excited to take part in the fun, spooky show—until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an “Indian maiden,” a ghost inspired by local legend, will headline. Folklore aside, unusual things have been happening at night at the crossroads near Harvest House. A creepy man is stalking teenage girls and young women, particularly Indigenous women; dogs are fretful and on edge; and wild animals are behaving strangely. While Hughie weighs how and when to speak up about the bigoted legend, he and his friends begin to investigate the crossroads and whether it might be haunted after all. As Moon rises on All Hallow’s Eve, will they be able to protect themselves and their community? Gripping and evocative, Harvest House showcases a versatile storyteller at her spooky, unsettling best. — Cover image and summary via Goodreads

Ooops! We missed a book last week. What do you think of this new release?

Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

A romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obstacles, again and again.

What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed?

Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. They also had a plan: to leave their small, ultra-conservative town and families behind after graduation and move to California, where they could finally stop hiding that love.

But then Stevie has a terrible fall. And when she comes to, she can remember nothing of the last two years—not California, not coming to terms with her sexuality, not even Nora. Suddenly, Stevie finds herself in a life she doesn’t quite understand, one where she’s estranged from her parents, drifting away from her friends, lying about the hours she works, dating a boy she can’t remember crushing on, and headed towards a future that isn’t at all what her fifteen-year-old self would have envisioned.

And Nora finds herself…forgotten. Can the two beat the odds a second time and find their way back together when “together” itself is just a lost memory?

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New Young Adult Releases! (April 11th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

Ab(solutely) Normal by Various

The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila

Throwback by Maurene Goo

A Realm of Ash & Shadow by Lara Buckheit

The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie by Various

Viva Lola Espinoza by Ella Cerón

New Sequels:

He Who Breaks the Earth (The Gods-Touched Duology #2) by Caitlin Sangster

Master of Souls (Kingdom of Souls #3) by Rena Barron

Promises Stronger than Darkness (Unstoppable #3) by Charlie Jane Anders

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Happy reading!

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Start 2024 by enjoying some of the best books of 2023! Here’s our latest BEST BOOKS FOR TEENS display, featuring:

Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker

Rez Ball by Byron Graves

The Making of Yolanda La Bruja by Lorraine Avila

The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado

Lion’s Legacy by L.C. Rosen

Saints of the Household by Ari Tison

Looking for more awesome YA books? Check out the entire BBFT 2023 list on our website!

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The Making of Yolanda La Bruja by Lorraine Avila

The Making of Yolanda La Bruja by Lorraine Avila. Levine Querido, 2023. 9781646142439 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover Genre: Realistic Fiction/Paranormal What did you like about the book? The story begins on Yolanda’s 16th birthday as she begins her sophomore year in high school. Her school population is comprised totally of kids who are Black or Brown. …

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OC Feature - 1

Hello there!

I promised to do this way back when this AU was still in it’s earliest days, and that was to showcase the Attack on Titan OCs of artists who decided to contribute to the Shingeki No Kuni AU! Links to the original posts and artists will be below each piece!

If you have an Attack on Titan OC and would like to see them in a feature post such as this one, you’re always more than welcome to jump on the bandwagon!

Alright, let’s begin!

Here is the lovely Lorraine Ackerman (astinbryson) as Moonstone! [LINK]

Then there is adorable lil’ Manuyo (manuyo-kun) as Schorl! [LINK]

Avila (deerqult) looks adorable in the summer uniform! [LINK]

Oh no, Ilayda (Elze da Belze)! Poor sweetheart didn’t deserve this ;___; [LINK]

These wonderfully poisonous boys (mistervegabond) are stunning to look at! [LINK]

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💭 🌈 ⛅️ It was a dreamy experience to have been part of this oh-so-informative documentary, Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun” by the Artbound team @kcet led by the remarkarble Juan Devis. . 
This film is part of series of mini-docs on activism in California graphic design that you can access on the KCET Artbound page at kcet.org/arts-culture. Also look under “Graphic Design” for a wealth of material including the jointly produced @kcet and @hyperallergic series among which are excellent story on intersection of graphic design and social justice in LA by Matt Stromberg @officialstromberg and @staci_alayne as well as others! . Included in or playing a role in the Corita documentary are so many people and places that I respect and love: @kcet @Suzanne Méjean Pinney, @juliehoook heidiburkey @hyperallergic Silas Munro @siborg81 @polymodestudio Stephen Coles @stewf @letterformarchive Nellie Scott @coritaartcenter Betty Avila, Self-Help Graphics @shg1970 Lincoln Cushing @lincolncushing Juliette Bellocq @juliettebellocq. Title design by Amun Levy, Alterbeast. . Finally, a shout-out to the @calarts and @calartGD talent that was involved in the film and inspired by Sister Corita: Juan Devis, Silas Munro, Juliette Bellocq and myself. Many of us learned about Sister Corita thanks to Lorraine Wild @wildlosangeles in her Historical Survey of Graphic Design class. Rock on, CalArtians! . . . #sistercorita #coritakent #earthquakesmudslidesfiresandriots #californiagraphicdesign #californiadesign #graphicdesignandactivism #immaculateheart #poparthistory #artbound #hyperallergic https://www.instagram.com/p/CQhD5l6BBl_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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In the spirit of Carribean Heritage and Pride Month, I would like to showcase some books written by Dominican 🇩🇴authors who I've greatly enjoyed throughout the years. Junot Diaz 🇩🇴 -Drown Raquel Cepeda 🇩🇴 -Bird of Paradise Julia Alvarez 🇩🇴 -In the Time of Butterflies -How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Lorraine Avila 🇩🇴🌈 -Malcriada & Other Stories Elizabeth Acevedo 🇩🇴 -The Poet X -With the Fire on High🌈 -Clap Before You Land🌈 Angie Cruz 🇩🇴 -Dominicana QOTD: Have you read any of these yet? Any other recommendations for me for Dominican reads? #CaribbeanHeritageMonth #pride🌈 #weneeddiversebooks #latinxvoices #afrolatinx #blacklivesmatter #books #bookstack #bookdragon #nerdgirl #diversereads #dominicanrepublic #readcaribbeanstories #caribbean #bookstagram #bookphotography #latinxreader #bookstakeyouplaces #escapeinabook #takebooksoutside #booksandplants #succulents #stack (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBg8LQAA-EJ/?igshid=8h0d9j51rw3c

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Atômica | Filme estrelado por Charlize Theron está disponível na Netflix

Longa de 2017 colocou atriz no papel de uma espiã enviada à Alemanha durante a Guerra Fria GABRIEL AVILA

A Netflix disponibilizou hoje (12) no Brasil o filme Atômica. Estrelado por Charlize Theron e James McAvoy, o filme acompanha Lorraine Broughton, uma agente secreta do MI6 é enviada para a Alemanha durante a Guerra Fria para recuperar uma lista perdida de agentes duplos após o assassinato de…

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Malcriada & other stories by Lorraine Avila

Para todos las malcriadas out there 🦋

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GIVEWAY Alert! You can win an advanced readers copy of Lorraine Avila’s Malcriada & Other Stories. Elizabeth Acevedo says "Malcriada & Other Stories is an uppercut to the senses. A powerful debut collection.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Book Synopsis: In sixteen stories we travel with a 12 year old who learns her name on a voyage from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico; a former cacao farmer finds a constellation on his lover’s thighs; best friends become strangers and find the essence of themselves in the face of deception; an old man exchanges his homeland for a New York City bodega storefront; preteen boys grapple with authority; female cousins come to terms with their first shared sexual experience; an alcoholic woman finds serenity at the bottom of the sea; feminism is deconstructed by opposing views; on the back of a motorcycle, self awareness is found; and a woman discovers that healing is a series of choices. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Here are the rules: —Hit the Like button —Follow me +@dominicanwriters —Tag a fellow bad ass bookstagrammer in the comments — Open to US residents only — Giveaway ends August 9, 2019 @ 11:59 pm EST. — Winner will be announced August 12, 2019. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Good luck! #malcriadaandotherstories https://ift.tt/2ODBA1U

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Saint of the Day for Monday, December 3rd, 2018 - Saints & Angels

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Saint of the Day for Monday, December 3rd, 2018 - Saints & Angels

St. Francis Xavier

St. Francis Xavier was a Navarrese-Basque Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre on April 7, 1506. His father was a privy counselor and finance minister to King John III of Navarre. … continue reading

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St. John of Damascus

Saint John Damascene has the double honor of being the last but one of the fathers of the Eastern Church, and the greatest of her poets. It is surprising, however, how little that is authentic is … continue reading

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St. Joan of Arc

St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France.

On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class in the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she was said to have heard the … continue reading

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St. Michael the Archangel

Saint Michael the Archangel isn’t a saint, but rather he is an angel, and the leader of all angels and of the army of God. This is what the title “Archangel” means, that he is above all the others in rank.

St. Michael has four main responsibilities or offices, as we … continue reading

St. Gabriel, the Archangel

St. Gabriel is an angel who serves as a messenger for God to certain people. He is one of the three archangels. Gabriel is mentioned in both the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible. First, in the Old Testament, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his … continue reading

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Countess of Feria

Saint John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, in Fontiveros, Avila, Spain in 1542. His father was employed by wealthy family members as an accountant, but they disowned him when he married a poor woman from the lower class. As a result of his family’s … continue reading

St. John the Evangelist

Saint John the Divine as the son of Zebedee, and his mother’s name was Salome [Matthew 4:21, 27:56; Mark 15:40, 16:1]. They lived on the shores of the sea of Galilee. The brother of Saint John, probably considerably older, was Saint James. The mention of the “hired … continue reading

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Ray McGrath, SFFD captain and longtime volunteer, dies – By Sam Whiting Published 9:37 pm, Friday, April 28, 2017

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Ray McGrath, a retired San Francisco Fire Department captain who stayed on as a toy drive volunteer and morale booster, sometimes walking from station to station throughout the city, has died at 95.

Mr. McGrath died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a fall at home while on his way to Mass last Sunday. His death was confirmed by Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, who went directly to San Francisco General Hospital when she heard Mr. McGrath had fallen. Already at his bedside were two nuns, a priest, and a hallway full of family members and old firefighters.

“Ray was a legend. Just a kind, compassionate Catholic man,” Hayes-White said. “He loved this city and knew the name of every street and alley.”

Though Mr. McGrath served the customary 30 years in the department, from 1947 to 1977, he was involved for another 40 years. Among the duties he adopted was as minister to injured firefighters and confidant to Hayes-White as she transitioned the department from its old-boy ways to a modern department integrated by race and gender.

In his retirement, Mr. McGrath walked 18 to 20 miles a day from his home in Daly City, up the coast, around to North Beach and back. When standing still, he worked in programs to feed and clothe the poor and in social justice causes. He was active in church sanctuary movements and even got himself arrested in Georgia, where he’d gone to defend the rights of refugees.

“He was always protesting something,” said his daughter Geraldine McGrath, a corporate attorney in San Francisco.

Raymond Stephen McGrath was born Sept. 2, 1921, in his parents’ home at 1515 Palou Ave., in the Bayview district, which was then known as Butchertown, with cattle running up Third Street to the slaughterhouses. It was a mix of Irish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Maltese, and everybody had a nickname. His was “Jiggy,” the sixth of eight kids raised in a home with one bedroom, a parlor room for Mr. McGrath’s two sisters, and a back porch where the six boys slept.

“He used to say, ‘It was cold enough to hang meat back there,” Geraldine said. But it was the Great Depression and the McGrath family had no meat to hang. Mr. McGrath and his older brother Joe were sent to wait in the food lines captured by photographer Dorothea Lange.

“These were the things he remembered when he was serving the poor,” Geraldine said.

Three of his older brothers, Joe, Art and John, had been star football players at Sacred Heart High School, but Mr. McGrath was too small to play sports. He never liked academics and intentionally flunked out of Sacred Heart as a sophomore.

He was forcibly returned to Mission High School, from which he graduated in 1939 and became a steamfitter.

With the onset of World War II, Mr. McGrath joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific theater. While away at war, he sent a photo of himself in his Navy uniform to his friend Lorraine Kerrigan, who lived one block away. Her younger sister, Barbara, known as Bobbie, saw the picture and pledged to marry him, which she did, in 1948 at All Hallows, their childhood parish.

By then, Mr. McGrath had joined the Fire Department. His file lists him as 5 feet 9 and 160 pounds, but that may have been generous. When he strove to advance from fireman to truckman, he was too short for the 5-foot-9 minimum height.

To reach it, Mr. McGrath would lie on the floor at night while his daughter held his arms and his wife pulled on his legs, to stretch him. In combination with lifts in his socks, it worked well enough for him to qualify.

Back then, firefighters traditionally stayed in one station their entire career, but Mr. McGrath transferred around, always looking for the station with the most action.

“He was a great storyteller and loved history,” Hayes-White said. “The city was literally burning in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s.”

In the mid-1960s, Mr. McGrath moved his wife and three daughters from the Bayview to a split-level ranch house in the Westlake district of Daly City.

Bobbie McGrath died in 1987 and was buried in Colma. Mr. McGrath later learned that there was space available for the two of them in the San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio, so he had his wife disinterred and moved to a plot near the flagpole with a view of the Golden Gate.

Once she was moved, Mr. McGrath would walk from home to visit his wife’s grave, often in the company of Al McCarthy, another retired firefighter. They’d follow the shoreline all the way around to the fireboat station.

According to Hayes-White, he liked to quiz firefighters on their knowledge of the streets, and he liked to visit firefighters injured in the line of duty.

One such firefighter is Melanie Stapper, who suffered major burns and lost most of her vision in a fatal Diamond Heights home fire in 1995. Already 20 years retired, Mr. McGrath had never met Stapper. But he took it upon himself to visit her at the hospital every day and sit at her bedside.

“He was truly here when others weren’t,” Stapper said. Once she was released from the hospital, Mr. McCarthy would regularly drive up to visit her at her home near the Russian River.

“She was a fallen comrade,” Geraldine said. “He was loyal to the Fire Department until the day he died.”

Survivors include daughters Geraldine McGrath of Hayward, Nancy Klein of Montara, and Deborah McGrath of Oakland, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

A visitation and rosary will begin at 5 p.m. Friday at St. Teresa of Avila. A Fire Department color guard, honor guard and engine will attend his funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Saturday, all at St. Teresa, 1490 19th St., San Francisco. Donations in his name may be made to the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. Teresa of Avila.

Sam Whiting is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: swhiting@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SamWhitingSF Instagram: @sfchronicle_art

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