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Summary: The antics of Ove Rolandsen, telegraph operator and local Casanova in a fishing village in Norway. He serenades the curate's wife, fights a drunken giant, but taking on the town's fish-glue magnate is a more difficult matter. By the winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. Corp. 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHamsun, Knut
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1969
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMDaoud, Hassan
Summary: "The Penguin" is a physically deformed young man who lives with his aging mother and father in one of the "temporary" buildings. His father spends his days on the balcony of their apartment, looking at the far-off city and pining for his lost way of life. Mother and father both find their purpose each day in worrying about the future for their son, while he spends his time in an erotic fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOHassan, Rochelle
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HASHassman, Tupelo
Summary: Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hassman 2012Hassman, Tupelo
Summary: Rosary, California, is not an easy place to grow up, particularly without a mom. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the Internet is blocked, Rosary is a town run by evangelicals but named by Catholics (and the evangelicals aren't particularly happy about that). It's a town on very formal relations with its neighbors, one that doesn't have much traffic in or out and that boasts an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASZeineddine, Ghassan
Summary: "Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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Summary: "A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash. Was it an accident or was it suicide? To answer that question, an unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to map Samuel's last day alive. Everything I Don't Remember is a gripping tale about love and memory. But it is also a story about a writer who, by filling out the contours of Samuel's story, is actually trying to grasp a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHEBasran, Gurjinder
Summary: Grief is a creature of many faces as Simran discovers when her mother, the lynchpin of her family, dies. Faced with the disintegration of her marriage and her estrangement from her own daughter, she struggles to make sense of her world and how things have come to be. With her mother’s death, Simran is haunted by memories and questions for which she has no answers. As the life she has carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASEasson, H.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jack is disgusted that he has to visit his great aunt Gretel (whom nobody in his family has ever seen, and who lives in a deadly forest with many skinny cats), horrified that there is no wi-fi, internet, or television in her dusty ancient cottage, and totally terrified when he realizes that she is a real, honest-to-goodness witch--fortunately she sends him packing after one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC EASHassall, Neil.
Summary: An emperor of China, who has forgotten how to smile, is told an unusual tale about a heavenly horse and learns what is really precious in his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Tiger Press 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HASSummary: Season One: Based on the best-selling book series from CJ Box, Joe Pickett is the new game warden of a town as beautiful and charming as it is corrupt and dangerous. When a poacher turns up brutally murdered, Joe decides to investigate it to keep his wife and young daughters safe. This sets off a chain of events that uncovers lies and deceit from within the community, putting Joe and his family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD JOEFasman, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FASHansson, Julia
Summary: "A child walks her dog around the block alone for the first time, navigating their vibrant city neighborhood in this picture book full of color, light and shadow."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANHausman, Sidney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Azro Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION HausmanFaizal, Hafsah
Summary: In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old Zafira and the sultan's son Nasir continue their quest to uncover a lost magic artifact and discover that the prize they seek may be even more dangerous than any of their enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FAISamoun, Abigail
Summary: Gator says good-bye to friends around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD SAMHussain, Nadiya
Summary: "A touching story about a little boy whose worry monster follows him everywhere he goes. It's there when he gets dressed, when he wants to play with his toys, and even when his friends come over to visit. How can he escape his worries?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUSGassman, Julie.
Summary: While sitting in the naughty chair, Roger thinks of a way he can stop being crabby so often, but his family may not agree with his solution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2011
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Summary: The affluent Al-Menshawy family find their American dream shattered when a devastating turn of events leaves their eldest son and their neighbor's daughter dead, and, becoming pariahs in their upscale New Jersey community, they struggle to keep their family together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Summary: "A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hassib 2019Hayman, James.
Summary: When an ambitious attorney is murdered and the only witness--a mentally disturbed woman--disappears, Portland homicide detective Michael McCabe races against time to track down the killer and prevent another murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYWasson, Brian
Summary: "Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023