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Abdullah, Kia Cha, Steph. Frick, Kit Khalil, Aya Kim, A. H. Salazar, Aida Sawyer, Kim Vogel. Sosa, MiaAbdullah, Kia
Summary: "Salma Khatun is hopeful about Blenheim, the suburban development into which she, her husband, and their son have just moved. The Bangladeshi family needs a fresh start, and Blenheim feels like just the place. Soon after they move in, Salma spots her white neighbor, Tom Hutton, ripping out the anti-racist banner her son put in the front garden. Avoiding confrontation, Salma takes the banner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDFrick, Kit
Summary: "When her sister Esme leaves her high-society husband and needs a ride, Jane Conner imagines one reality where she tells Esme to crash with a friend and then 24 hours later she disappears, and another reality where she brings Esme back to Connecticut where they must reckon with an explosive secret from their past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FRISosa, Mia
Summary: "A wedding planner left at the altar? Yeah, the irony isn't lost on Carolina Santos, either. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina's offered an opportunity that could change her life. There's just one hitch... she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own failed nuptials. Marketing expert Max Hartley is determined to make his mark with a coveted hotel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOSCha, Steph.
Summary: In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASalazar, Aida
Summary: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALKhalil, Aya
Summary: "Three generations of Egyptian Americans share special memories and a precious recipe in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of Ramadan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHAKim, A. H.
Summary: "Amelia Bae-Wood's life is falling apart. Unemployed, newly single and completely broke -- for reasons she hasn't told anyone yet -- she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother's eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2024
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Summary: Trina Muller is passionate about helping animals, but when she makes plans to attend college and earn a degree in veterinary medicine, her parents and prospective husband express their disapproval about her intentions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SawyeSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: Moving from the city to live in a Mennonite community in the small town of Sommerfield, Kansas, Beth Quinn finds she doesn't fit in, and tries to reconcile her old life and her new one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2007