Summary: "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2022
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Summary: A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia
Summary: A too busy butterfly who spends her day hurrying and worrying finds her own "quiet place" after learning about meditation and mindfulness from a flower bud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: Alma Cruz doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories, literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia
Summary: Children wonder what happens to their loved ones after death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALVRodriguez, Fanny
Summary: This is the tale of Nathan, an ordinary human (or so he thinks) living an ordinary life (or so he wishes). Everything changes when he meets Haven, a mysterious creature who is neither human nor volken. Nathan soon learns he has mysterious powers, even though humans aren't supposed to have magic. But there's no time to dwell on that because this discovery sets the group on a perilous quest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RODMany, Paul.
Summary: Pete and his Dad do everything together in the morning except comb their hair, but when Dad shaves off the last few stragglers it takes Pete some time to adjust to his father's new look.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls--frequently embarrassed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Dragonfly Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ALVAlvarez, Lorena
Summary: Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back to life in the whimsical drawings. When a mysterious new girl appears at school, Sandy's drawings are noticed for the first time, but Morfie's fascination with Sandy's talent soon turns into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2016
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Summary: "Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault are back with a new graphic novel, this time featuring Truffle, younger brother, best friend, aspiring rockstar ... Meet Truffle in three linked stories: In "Truffle the Rockstar," Truffle wants to form a band with his best friends Flo and Riad. They can already picture themselves on stage, wowing the crowd with epic songs. They still have to learn how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRIAlvarez, Jennifer Lynn
Summary: Jake tells his girlfriend Jessica that they have to go to Tegan's end-of-summer party in their tiny California beach town. Something happens at the party-- something so embarrassing that Jessica doesn't know if she can get over it, and Jake will do whatever it takes to earn her forgiveness. When a girl goes missing, everyone is a suspect... and Jake seems to have a lot to hide. -- adapted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALVBerman, Mandy
Summary: Fiona and Liv are seniors at Buchanan College, a small liberal arts school in rural Pennsylvania. Fiona, who is still struggling after the death of her younger sister, is spending her final year sleeping with abrasive men she meets in bars. Liv is happily coupled and on the fast track to marriage with an all-American frat boy. Both of their journeys, and their friendship, will be upended by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERMcHugh, Mandy
Summary: The disappearance of a young internet celebrity ignites a firestorm of speculation on social media, and to find her a detective will have to extinguish the blaze.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCHMoore, Mandy
Summary: After spending years locked in a tower, Rapunzel decides to postpone her wedding and royal duties so she can explore the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2017
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Summary: In a novel that incorporates elements of Hindu mythology, an apartment building becomes a metaphor for the divisions and cultural clashes of modern India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURSummary: After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOPMaloy, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MALNelson, Jandy.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life—and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Bailey's boyfriend; his grief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2010
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Summary: As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017