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Shaded Secrets
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781963359329
Publisher: Volossal Publishing
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Truth casts a long shadow - but so does hope.
Growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1911, Angela Bormida has always felt slightly out of place - too fair, too small, too quiet for the warm and boisterous Italian immigrant world that surrounds her. But she loves it fiercely: the smell of Papa's bakery, the noise rising through thin apartment walls, the chaos of Bleecker Street on a Saturday morning.
When her father disappears without explanation and a stranger takes up residence in the family's spare room, Angela's carefully tended sense of safety begins to erode. She watches. She worries. She tells herself she must be imagining things - because the adults in her life seem perfectly at ease, and children do not question adults.
She should have trusted herself.
In the aftermath of a betrayal no young girl should ever have to survive, Angela makes a silent, iron-hard promise: she will not let what happened to her become who she is. Piece by piece, she begins to rebuild - learning, slowly and painfully, that the greatest courage is not the kind that announces itself, but the kind that quietly refuses to disappear.
Shaded Secrets is a luminous, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant story about the cost of misplaced trust, the particular strength of girls the world overlooks, and one young woman's determination to walk into her future on her own terms - even if it means leaving her old name behind.
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