Van Alst, Theodore C.
Summary: "Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked. This dark, compelling, occasionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Lydia Hoffman owns a shop on Blossom Street called A Good Yarn - a shop that represents her dream of a new beginning, a life free of the cancer that has ravaged her twice. But the shop also means something to the women who come to take knitting classes and who, as a bonus, learn a great deal about life, beginning with Lydia's first lesson- how to knit a baby blanket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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Summary: Lydia Hoffman owns a shop on Blossom Street called A Good Yarn - a shop that represents her dream of a new beginning, a life free of the cancer that has ravaged her twice. But the shop also means something to the women who come to take knitting classes and who, as a bonus, learn a great deal about life, beginning with Lydia's first lesson- how to knit a baby blanket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2004
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Summary: "In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons (a young American couple) invite the Yazdans (Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife) to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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Summary: On a quiet summer morning, seventeen-year-old American exchange student Quinn Perkins stumbles out of the woods near the small French town of St. Roch. Barefoot, bloodied, and unable to say what has happened to her, Quinn's appearance creates quite a stir, especially since the Blavettes, the French family with whom she's been staying, have mysteriously disappeared. Now the media, and everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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Summary: Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: Anne Marie and several other widows create lists of things they always wanted to do but never did. She begins to act on her wishes and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It s a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended. It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLPerkins, Mitali
Summary: Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERDeford, Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEFWatson, Larry
Summary: On Thanksgiving Day 1962, the shooting of a young woman sets off a chain of unsettling events in Willow Falls, Minnesota, all revolving around Matthew Garth, who becomes obsessed with the shooting victim and with the lavish lifestyle of a local doctor's family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATDel Vecchio, John M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: When evangelical Luther Dunphy assassinates abortion doctor Augustus Voorhees, the two grieving families find their lives intricately linked.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017