Billingsley, Franny
Summary: When Baby Boo-Boo, a mouse dressed in a bunny suit, becomes lost in the forest, his mother follows the sound of his cries to locate him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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Summary: "The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that's rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BILBillingsley, Franny
Summary: In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BILBillingsley, John
Summary: When the colleagues of a retiring college professor throw him a going-away party, the academic reveals he's a 14,000-year-old immortal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MANGonzález, Saraí
Summary: Fourth grader Saraí Gonzalez can do anything. She can bake, dance, and run her own cupcake business. But when Saraí's grandparents are forced to move, even Saraí's not sure what to do. So she hatches a super-awesome plan with her younger sisters and cousin to buy back the house. Will Saraí find a way to save the day?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GONMarsh, Sarah
Summary: Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBeg, Sara Sharaf
Summary: Being crammed into a house in Queens with her cousins is not how Dua envisioned her trip to New York City. But here she is, spending the holy month of Ramadan with extended family she hasn't seen in years. Struggling to find her place in the conservative household and to connect with her aloof, engaged-to-be-married cousin, Mahnoor, Dua she must battle her hormones whenever she sees Hassan, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEGBillingsley, ReShonda Tate
Summary: Savannah Graham thought she had the perfect marriage…until grief drove her husband into the arms of his best friend’s wife. Now, she believes revenge is the only way her heart can heal from the betrayal.For fifty-two years, Ollie Moss lived side by side with the love of his life, his wife Elizabeth. But now that she’s gone, so is his desire to live, despite the love from his children, and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILWalker, Sarai
Summary: "The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up.New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Sarai.
Summary: "A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walker 2015Billingsley, ReShonda Tate
Summary: On the day of her father's funeral, Brooke Green's grandmother breaks the shocking news: her mother, Sarah, is very much alive, living in Atlanta. She abandoned her family because she claimed she wasn't fit for motherhood-- but began an new career, and even has a family in Atlanta. Stunned, Brooke doesn't know if she wants answers or revenge. When she meets Sarah's husband, Tony, Brooke sees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILSummary: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PREDeWitt, Tarah
Summary: "When falling in love is the punchline... Farley Jones is a loud, chaotic, and hilariously clever standup comedian on the way to stardom. The only thing she loves more than the rush of telling jokes in front of a revved-up audience is her hot older manager Meyer, though he doesn't have a clue. Keeping her feelings hidden from him is agony (a tragedy, even--in lieu of flowers, please send...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Summer won't last forever. Sage Byrd has lived in the coastal town of Spunes, Oregon (not to be confused with Forks, Washington) her entire life. She's learned to love her small world, with the misfit animals on her hobby farm, and her friendships with the town's inhabitants. But when her 5-year relationship ends and her ex, town-golden-boy Ian, suddenly gets engaged, Sage needs a win -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2024
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Summary: The witch Baba Yaga and a wolf switch bodies and form an unlikely alliance to save the forest from an evil tsar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUTSummary: Inspector Alleyn has the upper crust contacts and manners, but like more modern detectives, he's a bona fide cop. Offers elegant country house settings, complex cases, and a detective who works for Scotland Yard. Agatha Troy is the Inspector's independent and insightful lady friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Dare plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a malignant ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARHeron, Farah
Summary: "Reena Manji doesn't love her career, her single status, and most of all, her family inserting themselves into every detail of her life. But when caring for her precious sourdough starters, Reena can drown it all out. At least until her father moves his newest employee across the hall--with hopes that Reena will marry him. But Nadim's not like the other Muslim bachelor-du-jours that her parents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHeron, Farah
Summary: "For Kamila Hussain, life is good. She's got plenty of friends, a doting father, and her dog has more Instagram followers than most reality stars. But when she notices her longtime friend Rohan is spending much more time with another woman, Kamila wonders for the first time if a little self-improvement might be in order. First step: take her weekly Bollywood viewing parties to levels unreached,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSalih, Zak
Summary: "Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian-both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence-spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALSarvas, Mark
Summary: After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father, uncover his family history, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. Along the way to illuminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARUpadhyay, Samrat
Summary: "Samrat Upadhyay's new collection vibrates at the edges of intersecting cultures. Journalists in Kathmandu are targeted by the government. A Nepali man studying in America drops out of school and finds himself a part of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Awhite American woman moves to Nepal and changes her name. A Nepali man falls in love with mysterious foreign black woman. A rich kid is caught...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPAAbdoh, Salar
Summary: "Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most popular TV shows but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war, an existential battle, a declaration of faith, and, for some, a passing weekend affair. After weeks spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDMaroh, Julie
Summary: "Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine, a high school student, has an average life: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair. Their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013