Torres, Justin
Summary: "Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASCole, Olivia A.
Summary: Octavia has always dreamed of becoming a whitecoat, one of the prestigious N’Terra scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv. So when the secretive labs are opened to students, she leaps at the chance to see what happens behind their closed doors. She discovers that all is not what it seems on Faloiv, and the experiments the whitecoats have been doing run the risk of upsetting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLMontgomery County (N.Y.) Dept. of History & Archives
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Department. 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.374746 MONHoworth, Lisa
Summary: "From beloved bookseller Lisa Howorth comes a Cold War coming-of-age story in which three best friends confront their fears of the Bomb, Russian spies, girls, and their role in the tragic accident that ushers them into adulthood. It's the summer of 1959. For the handful of families who live on Connors Lane, a stone's throw from the Washington Monument, life is still largely defined by what one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHammad, Isabella
Summary: A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hammad 2019Chang, Elysha
Summary: "Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she's keeping secrets from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now conducting unauthorized research on illegitimately procured mice. And, true, her mother is dead, and Eleanor has yet to go through her things. But what else is she supposed to do? What shape can grief take when you didn't understand the person you've lost? Resisting at every turn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP Lit 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALowe, Kathryn A.
Summary: In 1998, a sixteen-year-old girl is found dead. She's posed on a swing on her boarding school's property, dressed all in white, with no known cause of death. Whispers and rumors swirl, with no answers. But there are a few who know what happened; there is one girl who will never forget. One year earlier: a new student, Violet, steps on the campus of Elm Hollow Academy, an all-girl's boarding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWBourdain, Anthony.
Summary: "Acclaimed chef, writer and television personality, Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose (Kill The Poor) return for the follow-up to their #1 New York Times bestseller GET JIRO from Vertigo. In GET JIRO: BLOOD AND SUSHI, Bourdain and Rose examine the origins of the mysterious Jiro and what made him into the chef he has become. Born the heir to a Yakuza crime family, Jiro never longed to travel the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOUGenhart, Michael
Summary: It's time to prepare for the school Spanish spelling bee, and Manolo is determined to take home the grand prize. Naturally, he turns to his loving abuela for help and together they spell the words: H-e-r-m-o-s-o. Beautiful. O-r-g-u-l-l-o-s-o. Proud. F-u-e-r-t-e. Strong. While they practice, Abuela shares stories of when she was a little girl. Back then, students were not permitted to speak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENLapidos, Juliet
Summary: "Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her project: an intellectual history of inspiration. And yet Anna feels utterly and truly uninspired. Rather than find the case study she needs to anchor her thesis, she spends her days eating Pop-Tarts and wandering the streets of New Harbor, Connecticut. Amid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAPBarnes, Julian
Summary: "From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARVillareal, Raymond A.
Summary: This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILDev, Sonali
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Vibrant Years comes an emotional story of three women navigating ugly truths and safe lies with only love to guide them on a journey of motherhood, friendship, and life. Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, Vandy's public veneer can barely conceal her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVFielding, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEGuerra, Wendy
Summary: "A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUESmith, Elliott
Summary: During the turbulent 1960s, the reader's plot choices determine their role in the historic fight for equal rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SMIRitzer, P. A.
Summary: The Stuart-Schurtz party risks everything to seek a mysterious canyon on the Texas frontier of 1877. The age-old quest for home lies behind this radical disruption of their lives. A unique communion develops among them, as they face the challenges of the trail and search for what might not exist. Still, their gravest trials are served up by an agent of evil who commits his powers, physical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Ox Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WES RitzerRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Determining to reevaluate her life, Jude Murray flees America to take refugee in Faerie Hill Cottage, immersing herself in the study of Irish Folk and discovers hope for the future of the magical past. Finally back home in Ireland after years of traveling, Aidan Gallagher possesses an uncommon understanding of his country's haunting myths. Although he's devoted to managing the family pub, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1999
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Summary: Determining to reevaluate her life, Jude Murray flees America to take refugee in Faerie Hill Cottage, immersing herself in the study of Irish Folk and discovers hope for the future of the magical past. Finally back home in Ireland after years of traveling, Aidan Gallagher possesses an uncommon understanding of his country's haunting myths. Although he's devoted to managing the family pub, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBSummary: Presents a collection of new Sherlock Holmes tales inspired by the original Arthur Conan Doyle series, with contributions by such authors as Thomas Perry, Lee Child, Charles Todd, and Neil Gaiman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUMartin, George R. R.
Summary: Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen, the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, took up residence on Dragonstone. Their tale begins with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "For Nate Wright, conflict is a way of life. He tangles with Gina, the editor of the school newspaper, after she rejects his comic strip. He can?t get on the same page with his snooty study partners as they cram for the final exam. And once he hears that Mr. Rosa?s job is on the line, Nate even takes on the all-powerful school board. But when a challenger threatens Nate?s status as the owner of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2024