Ferrante, Elena
Summary: Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Gale 2016
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Summary: Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCelona, Marjorie.
Summary: A foster child who has been shuffled through the system after being abandoned at the YMCA as a baby wonders about her birth family and the reasons she was given up, questions that lead to the tragic story of her flawed and desperate mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CELBaljeet Basra, Celina
Summary: In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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Summary: In New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. When the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the "House of Mercy." Effie gets herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURValentino, Serena
Summary: The two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's legendary haunting of Sleepy Hollow is approaching, but Kat van Tassel wants nothing to do with the town's superstitious celebrations. As a descendant of the original Katrina van Tassel, Kat knows she's expected to fulfill her ancestor's legacy by someday marrying her longtime boyfriend and running the prestigious family estate. But Kat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Enterprises, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VALBeck, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2008
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Summary: In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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Summary: A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020