Dybek, Nick.
Summary: Follows the experiences of a youth whose family and island community entirely depend on the king crab trade that constantly risks his father's life, a situation that is further threatened by a new fleet owner's intentions of selling away the island's livelihood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYBWick, Lori.
Summary: Growing up without a traditional family, Arcineh Bryant reaches out to friends to create her own kind of family, but when she finally meets a man she feels she could love, she begins having doubts about trusting the love of another.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WICDicks, Matthew
Summary: "From Matthew Dicks, the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, comes The Other Mother, a novel about a teenage boy coping with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light. The one he loves most, is the one he knows least. Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DICMcDonell, Nick.
Summary: White Mike, a seventeen-year-old prep school dropout and drug dealer, and his privileged peers spend their time partying with sex, drugs, and escalating violence in the pursuit of ever more exotic and dangerous thrills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDWittenborn, Dirk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WITRissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISBeck, Glenn.
Summary: A young boy is given a sweater by his mother before she dies--a final gesture that teaches him the true meaning of love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC BecGray, Alexandra.
Summary: Ten men lays bare the the rules of sex, class and power in the twenty-first century dating game.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRABuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: A recently discovered novel follows the gifted Randolph Colfax from birth to his early twenties as he searches for purpose and meaning in New York, England, Paris, and on his mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCKerouac, Jack
Summary: "In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: The novella, set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in the working-class town the summer before his sophomore year at Boston College, Peter finds himself conflicted. Like many...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KERCheng, Jack
Summary: "Sixth grader Andy Zhou grapples with fitting in, befriends a bully, drifts apart from his childhood best friend, and gets to know grandparents who have just moved from Shanghai to live with his family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Two girls and three boys, all with strikingly different looks and talents, meet at the Atwood school as young children. Together, they become an inseparable group, known to outsiders as 'The Big Five,' and lean on one another through all the bumps and bends of childhood and adolescence. But when the tight-knit group graduates and scatters to different colleges, their lives diverge dramatically,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012