Blakeslee, Vanessa
Summary: "Growing up as the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, teenaged Mercedes Martinez knows a world of maids, armed guards, and private drivers. When she falls in love with Manuel, a fiery young activist with a passion for his faith and his country, she begins to understand the suffering of the desplazados who share her land. A startling discovery about her father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2015
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Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Summary: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRoeder, Vanessa
Summary: Using a cardboard box as his home when he is born without a shell, Terrance the turtle enjoys the uniqueness and versatility of his home until another turtle’s insensitive remarks make him question his differences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIFHua, Vanessa
Summary: "In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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Summary: Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become--unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAFMarshall, Vanessa
Summary: The crew of the starship Ghost battle against the evil Empire to try and bring peace back to the galaxy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2017
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Summary: After his wife has given up on him and left him for his former best friend, a failed artist descends into madness and tries to win her back by performing various bizarre escapades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MORRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "An English spy must follow his neglected wife through the streets of London as she investigates her sister's death with the aid of the Widow's Grace. Can they find common ground and learn to work together?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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Summary: "A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself, her mother, and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter. Based on the true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Escaping from an arranged marriage, sixteen-year-old Khadija finds an unlikely ally in a poor young glassmaker's apprentice, and as a deadly revolution exploits forbidden magic, threatening their friendship, they must choose what kind of world they want to live in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: "A wildfire threatens to obliterate everything in a boy's town. All he knows might be lost. Will he make it out in time? And will his home survive the blaze?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
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Summary: "Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2024
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Summary: "Eager to get married, thirty-year-old Virginia Carey lands a job as an operator at a police tip line, where she thinks finding a husband will be easy. There's Charlie Ford, a surprisingly sweet homicide detective, and charming police chief Declan "Deck" Brady. But just as Virginia's plans begin to fall into place and she can almost picture a ring on her finger, she answers a call from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Summary: When nine-year old Laddy Merridew goes to live with his grandmother in a small Welsh town, he befriends the town beggar-storyteller, Ianto and learns about the Kindly Lights coal mine collapse that had a profound effect on the lives of subsequent generations of townspeople.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEBHua, Vanessa
Summary: "A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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Summary: "Joan has just learned the truth: her family are monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And the cute boy at work isn't just a boy: he's a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to destroy her family. To save herself and her family, Joan will have to do what she fears most: embrace her own monstrousness. Because in this story ... she is not the hero"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED RAMRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022