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Kelkar, Supriya

Summary: When ten-year-old Indian American Geetanjali, part of a family of classical Hindustani music singers, believes her neighbor has become an ichchaadari naagin, a cobra that can turn human, she must overcome her fears and harness the power of her voice before the naagin changes the whole town into snakes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEL

Steel, Danielle

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Shalvis, Jill

Summary: "When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn't feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHA

Ferris, Joshua

Summary: Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FER

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember. After years of hardship, exploitation, and abuse, her big chance finally comes to do what she loves. But Iris still has to fight every step of the way.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Dunbar, Carol

Summary: "He promised her he would never let go. She's willing to risk everything to hold on. In the aftermath of her husband's logging accident, Elsa has more questions than answers about how to carry on while caring for their two small children in the unfinishedhouse he was building for them in the woods of rural Wisconsin. To cope with the challenges of winter and the near-daily miscommunications...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUN

Budhos, Marina Tamar

Summary: After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediatly put on hold as she figures out how take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BUD

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BUD

Cheng, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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Yang, Kelly

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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Wiseman, Ellen Marie

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIS

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman

Hayes-McCoy, Felicity

Summary: Distance makes no difference to love ... Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the little US town of Resolve, where generations of Finfarran's emigrants have settled. But when the club decides to read a detective novel, old conflicts on both sides of the ocean...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAY

Khalid, Zain

Summary: "In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHA

McDunn, Gillian

Summary: As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCD

Strong, Lynn Steger

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate-a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Whitehead, Colson

Summary: It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Whitehead, Colson

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHI

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHI

Weiner, Jennifer

Summary: Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body, at least, most of the time, and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Straub, Emma

Summary: "When Alice wakes up on her fortieth birthday somehow back in 1996 as her sixteen-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the forty-nine-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STR

3 holds on 7 copies

Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Nnuro, DK

Summary: When siblings Jacob and Belinda Nti were growing up in Ghana, their goal was simple: to move to America. For them, the United States was both an opportunity and a struggle, a goal and an obstacle. Jacob, an awkward computer programmer who still lives with his father, wants a visa so he can move to Virginia to live with his wife--a request that the U.S. government has repeatedly denied. He...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NNU

Hostin, Sunny

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In a hidden enclave in Sag Harbor affectionately known as SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Nineveh--there's a close-knit community of African American elites who escape the city and enjoy the beautiful warm weather and beaches at their vacation homes. Very few know about this part of the Hamptons on Long Island, and the residents like it that way. Against the odds, Olivia Jones has blazed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOS

Hostin, Sunny

Summary: When real estate developers discover the hidden enclave of SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Nineveh--the home of African American elites, Olivia Jones fights to preserve her new Black utopia, leading her to define the meaning of love, friendship, community and family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Hilderbrand, Elin

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Hilderbrand, Elin

Summary: Irene Steele's idyllic life-house, husband, family-is shattered when she is woken up by a late-night phone call. Her beloved husband has been found dead, but before Irene can process this tragic news, she must confront the perplexing details of her husband's death. He was found on St. John island, a tropical paradise far removed from their suburban life. Leaving the cold winter behind, Irene...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hilderbrand 2018

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