Avila, Lorraine
Summary: "Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with José, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AVISummary: "Some loves must remain secret until the time is right. Declaring one's love can be hard--even risky--especially when faced with some of life's greatest challenges. Separated by class, time, distance, and more, nine historical novellas explore the challenges involved when you love someone but can't reveal your heart to them. Instead, notes of affection, acts of kindness, gifts of admiration,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SECHeath, Lorraine.
Summary: Continues the scandalous exploits of the rakish sons of Dowager Duchess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEARissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADALopez, Lorraine
Summary: "Award-winning author Lorraine López offers a compelling novel about four sisters searching for the truth behind a long-buried family secret"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOPHeath, Lorraine
Summary: "1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to become an instructor. But the task isn't without its perils of near-misses and death. Faced with the weight of her responsibilities, she finds solace with a British officer who knows firsthand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEACarey, Lorraine
Summary: Cinderella's youngest stepsister, Gertie, is told she must act mean like the rest of her family if she wants to attend the prince's ball, and she enlists the help of the big bad wolf to make her Ugly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARRosenthal, Lorraine Zago.
Summary: "In Lorraine Zago Rosenthal's sequel to New Money, Savannah Morgan delves into the mystery of her late media mogul father's death and uncovers more than she ever expected. In New Money, Savannah Morgan was thrust into high society New York when she learned she was the sole heir to her media mogul father's billion dollar fortune. In Independently Wealthy she is living her dream life on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSAbela, Deborah
Summary: Collects three stories about Jasper Zammit and his under-11s soccer team, the Rovers, in which Lil and Jasper work to become friends, Aamir is bullied by another team's player, and the team is assigned a new coach obsessed with winning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Australia 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABELópez Ávila, Pilar
Summary: Mohesiwä's wishes take shape in the jungle where he lives and plays smiles as she thinks about her future. Juana daydreams when she cleans car windshields and, on the other side of the world, Anja and her brother Tovo search amongst mounds of trash, without ever losing sight of their dreams."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento de Luz SL 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOPMoraine, Sunny
Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage, Riley, when a new neighbor moves in down the road, throws caution to the wind in her desperate need for human contact, and as they grow closer, she can no longer fight her deepest desires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: The Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But then the coach, Clint Scott, is found gunned down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, he was killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy tagged several sites in town before he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHADávila, Claudia
Summary: When her mother sends her on a "mission" that takes her into the deep, dark woods, Ruby puts on her red cloak and becomes Super Red Riding Hood, a superhero who is scared of nothing--except coming face-to-face with a big, bad wolf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVHabila, Helon
Summary: Reluctantly leaving America when his wife is given a prestigious fellowship in Berlin, a Nigerian grad student struggles with the suffering of the African refugees and immigrants he encounters in his new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABSavile, Steven.
Summary: The death of children's writer Hoke Berglund draws Jon Sieber into a world filled with Hoke's creations, including the vile Mr. Self Affliction who is the cruel master of this place. In a world where angels are beautiful women and the by-blows of nightmares people the mythical Forgetting Wood, Jon, heir apparent to all that Hoke created, falls for Beglund's daughter but cannot overlook her ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAVilas, Manuel
Summary: "A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicleof his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIGeffen, Adiva
Summary: "Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate...She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland...This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought... WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Adiva Geffen] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GeffenVictoire, Camila
Summary: "At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VICBell, Davina
Summary: Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days deep in their mother's collection of classic literature - until a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality. At first, Edward is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Text Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BELCavill, Henry
Summary: When King Hyperion threatens to destroy humanity in search of a powerful weapon, the gods choose the warrior Theseus to rise up and fight against him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012