Gwin, Minrose
Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018St. Jude, Jen
Summary: "When you can't save the world, how do you save yourself? Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. But on the morning Avery plans to jump into the river near her college campus, the world discovers there are only nine days left to live: an asteroid is headed for Earth, and no one can stop it. Trying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ST. JAttema, Martha
Summary: "For 16-year-old Klara, a devastating flood reveals a dark family secret. It is February 1953 in the Netherlands and Klara is expected to marry the son of a prominent farmer. In this small island community, steeped in tradition, the Church controls the lives of its citizens but Klara longs to escape. When a spring tide merges with a brutal storm it causes the dikes to breach, unleashing death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ronsdale Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATTMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Jeremy and Anna encounter many difficulties in the new apocalyptic United States. Dustin and Karina also find themselves returning to their home country as Seed Ambassadors for Global See Vault. Meanwhile, Robert and Major Winter are finding out that it will be much harder to leave North Korea than they had anticipated ... Will civilization rise again after coming to the brink of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMartens, J. D.
Summary: "After the comet's fracture, the world braces for one of the fragments to land somewhere on the Eurasian Plate. While humanity struggles to survive under these new onerous circumstances, Robert and his team must find a way--with limited resources--to stop the other comet fragments from hitting Earth. Hopefully, the new Vishnu spacecraft captained by Dr. Nia Rhodes will help keep Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARRollins, James
Summary: To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROLMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Robert Miller must work together with North Korean scientists to find a way to keep the larger comet fragment from hitting Earth. Major Winter joins him as his bodyguard, leaving Jeremy and Anna to fend for themselves at his mansion. Janice has plans of her own up on the Ark, while Dustin and Karina realize that Israel is less hospitable now that the Earth's temperature has returned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Dustin and Karina struggle to survive in Europe, while Jeremy returns to Houston with renewed vigor to help stop the comet. Meanwhile, the United States Government tries to find out more about a terrorist organization, the Soldiers of God. While Suri recovers from a terrorist attack, Robert struggles to work without his "partner in science." With the impact only months away, will they be able...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: Paris. The Malegarde family gathers to celebrate Paul's 70th birthday, and his 40th anniversary with Lauren. Photographer Linden Malegarde is home from the US; he has grown distant from his blunt older sister Tilia. The family members fight to keep their unity, figuratively drowning under the weight of their secrets. And as the rains fall, The Seine overflows its banks and floods the city. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rosnay 2018McGinnis, Mindy
Summary: Lydia Chass doesn't mind living in a small town; she just doesn't want to die in one. A lifetime of hard work has put her on track to attend a prestigious journalism program and leave Henley behind--until a school error leaves her a credit short of graduating. Undeterred, Lydia has a plan to earn that credit: transform her listener-friendly local history podcast into a hard-hitting,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCGWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARGriner, Susan
Summary: When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight for survival. Includes information about the Great Kanto Earthquake, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023