Zhang, Amy
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ocean Wu moves to New York City to start college, but she defers her enrollment, keeping it a secret from her immigrant mother, and instead uses the time to deal with her ambivalence about her place in the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHAShepherd, Peng
Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEWeinstein, Alexander
Summary: Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEISummary: A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995