McDowell, Kara
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Gemma's favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing--if she manages to say anything at all. She can't even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes--to her horror--that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCDSummary: Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redfines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: There are unexpected consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts texting back pretending to be shy A.J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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Summary: "Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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Summary: "A wry, tender novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary choices. Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him somuch. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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James, Henry
Summary: Collects four complete novels of Henry James, depicting murder, jealousy, possessiveness, power, divorce, friendship, and innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMKeene, Carolyn.
Summary: While vacationing in the Midwest with her friends, Nancy Drew investigates a mysterious magnetic cloud, searches for a hijacked plane, and hunts a horse thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1976
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Summary: Two socially awkward people meet at a wedding and develop an attraction towards each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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Summary: Because of his ugly and awkward appearance, a duckling is ostracized by other animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 1994
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Summary: An awkward teenage filmmaker becomes friends with a classmate with cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Summary: Follows an awkward, anxious, and insecure teenage girl through the final week of her eighth grade before she moves on to high school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EIGTreadway, Jessica
Summary: Surviving a brutal attack that ends her husband's life, Hanna struggles to remember her attacker, who may be her awkward daughter's boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREBuckley, Michael.
Summary: While running a spy network from their elementary school, five socially awkward misfits combine their talents and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet 2010
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Summary: The story of an awkward and scrawny mountain sheep with oversized horns who escapes the hunters to become the sensation of a ski resort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton 1971
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Summary: A fickle filmmaker falls for a young woman and then leaves her, but when he tries to recreate the romance, he meets her again under awkward circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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Summary: "Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MCCSummary: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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Summary: Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1997
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Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Evanovich comes "My Fair Lady" with a twist--a canny young woman makes over her awkward millionare client, with some hot and sexy results!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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Summary: Sweety is awkward, even for a naked mole rat, but with encouragement from her Aunt Ruth, she begins to see that being herself is the best way to find a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZUISummary: Brooklyn's finest are back and leveling up! From Jake's new prison friendship with a cannibal, to totally awkward office yoga sessions, and the most unforgettable Halloween heist of all time, there's no place like the nine-nine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BROSummary: When an illness brings comedian Emily Martin back to her college town of Austin, Texas, she must endure an awkward weekend with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2018