Roberts, Tara Karr
Summary: "Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHAlderson, Kaia
Summary: The first Black women allowed to serve in the army, Grace Steele and Eliza Jones, helping form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, navigate their way through the segregated ranks, finally making it overseas where they do their parts for the country they love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALDVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARMcDowell, Kara
Summary: Eighteen-year-old American, Wren, is stranded in England when news of an impending world-ending comet causes global chaos, but when she meets a runaway prince with an agenda of his own, she realizes he might be her only chance of getting home in time to say goodbye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCDKara, Jessica
Summary: A year ago, Gage survived a car accident that killed his best friend, Hunter. Without the person who always brought out the best in him, Gage doesn't know who he is. He likes working as a fry cook and loves his small-town friends and family, but they weren't in the wreck and he can't tell them how much he's still hurting. He just wants to forget all his pain and move on. So when his stepdad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publising Co. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KARSutton, Karah
Summary: The witch Baba Yaga and a wolf switch bodies and form an unlikely alliance to save the forest from an evil tsar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUTKarp, Marshall
Summary: Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow. Only it's not snow. It's cocaine. Four thousand pounds of it. Uncut. Blanketing meadows and treetops. Knocking birds from the sky, dropping carriage horses to the pavement, and cutting a swath of death through the thousands of unsuspecting joggers, cyclists, and picnickers enjoying a summer afternoon in Central Park. So begins the war between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KARThomas, Kara
Summary: The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOThomas, Kara
Summary: It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway: three best friends, a lake house, a secret trip. But it's clear something terrible happened when Claire wakes up alone and bloodied on a hiking trail-- with no memory of the past forty-eight hours. She remembers Friday night, but after that, nothing. Now Kat and Jesse are missing. The answers are buried somewhere in Claire's memory-- and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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Summary: As part of her new mega-botany class at the Program for In-Training Superheroes, Mia Mayhem has to grow a plant from superseeds all on her own, but when her plant grows out of her control, she must find a way to stop the ensuing chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Jazz worries when her best friend Macy displays obsessive behavior over an ex-boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KARManternach, Karla
Summary: "Everything is going Meena's way. Her seizures are under control...she's trying hard to be a better friend. So when Sofaia's cat, Oriol, goes missing, Meena is the first to help her look. But when Meena learns Sofaia's family might be moving far away, everything starts to fall apart... With a little help from her trash collection, Meena sets out to locate Oriol and keep Sofaia close. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MANValenti, Karla
Summary: Nine-year-old twins Emma and Martín travel into a book of legends and where they must try to stop the rain god's flood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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Summary: Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEATanamachi, Cara
Summary: Freelance writer Sora Reid has an intense dislike for Valentine's Day, having been betrayed and disappointed more than once. When her pledge to stay single in February inspires readers to #gosolo, Sora has a responsibility to empower her readers-- even though her soon-to-be married, overachieving younger sister needs her to have a date for the wedding. Enter Jack Mann. A muscle-bound baker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TANAppiah, Krystle Zara
Summary: "A provocative debut novel about a British Ghanaian marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that's on the brink of collapse? It seemed everyone knew Efe and Sam were meant to be--everyone except for Efe and Sam. Efe, newly arrived in the UK from Ghana and sinking under the weight of her parents' expectations, finds comfort in the focused and idealistic Sam,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPRouda, Kaira Sturdivant
Summary: When her husband's indiscretion with a young staffer threatens to ruin everything she has accomplished, Jody Asher, the wife of a political icon, flips the narrative as the balance of power shifts when he suddenly dies, securing the future she's entitled to despite her secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUBarber, Lizzy
Summary: "There are summers that will change your life. There are summers that may end it. In the lush green hills beyond Florence sits the Villa Medici--a graceful pensione surrounded by manicured gardens. Rachel, a college student from an unfashionable London suburb, can't believe her luck in landing a summer job here. Especially when she's drawn into a circle of privileged young sophisticates,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BarberMara, Maddy
Summary: "Naomi loves being a Glitter Dragon Girl. She can fly above treetops and roar glittery bursts of magic. Best of all, she and the other Glitter Dragons are keeping their beloved Magic Forest safe from the Shadow Sprites. But all is not as it seems in this special place. The Shadow Sprites' power is growing. . . and they may not be alone. Naomi must harness all the dragon magic she's learned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MARAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRMara, Sunya
Summary: "Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Vesper Vale sacrificed everything to save her city from the cursed storm. After becoming a vessel of The Great Queen, Vesper awakes from a slumber three years after her life altering choice. What she finds isn't a home freed from the terror of the storm, but one where its citizens are besieged by the even more sinister force of The Great King and his growing army of the lightstruck--once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARBlack, Cara
Summary: "Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father-now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series. Aimée Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024