LeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: "As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEZCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: "The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith--and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Summary: "With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURPhillips, Caryl
Summary: A reimagining of Wuthering Heights traces the multigenerational forces that shape the lives of a young Heathcliff, the Brontë sisters and their brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIVerdi, Jessica
Summary: For the last several years CeCe Ross has been in a serious relationship with her girlfriend Silvie. They enjoy their career as social media influencers, with thousands of fans, posting about fashion and relationship goals, and totally abandoning the liberal politics that were the subjects of her original social media profile. During their senior year Silvie breaks up with her, and CeCe meets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VERBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACBazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZKuyatt, Meg Eden
Summary: Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KUYCuffy, Nicole
Summary: At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she's promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She's instantly catapulted into celebrity, heralded for her "inspirational" role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company's history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream, Cece remains haunted by the feeling that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUFMengestu, Dinaw
Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MENMengestu, Dinaw
Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENDee, Jonathan
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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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEECogan, Priscilla
Summary: "When a botched bank robbery leaves Billy T. Pickle in need of hostages, he winds up with more than he bargained for: a girl named Phoenix, who's filled with teen angst, and Kate, who's filled with wisdom that only comes with age. As they make their way across the country, Billy finds he needs these women more than he could have ever known"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2007
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Weingarten, Lynn
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEILeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEZKerr, Philip.
Summary: Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. He is a religious man who is close to losing his faith; the very nature of his job has led him to question the existence of a God who could allow the things that Gil sees every day. But Gil's wife Ruth doesn't see things the same way and his crisis of faith provokes a fracture in their marriage. Gil's world is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KERKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KooBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
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Summary: "Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Biblioasis 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLMosley, Walter.
Summary: Charles Blakey, a young man who can't find a job and who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments for the home that's been in his family for generations, cannot say no when a stranger offers to rent the basement for $50,000 in cash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSZevin, Gabrielle
Summary: "Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017