Summary: Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd and his cold case team tackle their cases with a new colleague, Sarah Cavendish, a brilliant ex-counter-terrorism officer who has fallen from grace. Will she help or hinder the team₂s searches for a killer with a twisted mind; the perpetrators of crippling state childcare; and the murderer of a veteran-turned-peace activist, rumored to have been killed by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKMatharu, Taran
Summary: "Cade has managed to survive the duel with the Hydra Alpha, barely. But the Games are far from over. By order of their cruel and mysterious overlord, Abaddon, Cade and his friends are sent off to war against the Greys, a humanoid race who have far surpassed humans in technology on their home planet. This attempt to move up the leaderboard, however, leads Cade to a game-changing revelation: The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishiing Group, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATRaheem, Zara
Summary: To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. Yet after twenty-six years of singledom, and still no sign of "Mr. Perfect," even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAHZgheib, Yara
Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHGomi, Taro
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARGomi, Tarō
Summary: Yumi and her grandmother really want to see each other, but when they both set out from their homes at the same time they keep missing each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOMMatharu, Taran
Summary: Cade Carter and his friends have survived the qualifying round of the mysterious overlords' twisted games, decimated by the loss of so many of their comrades during the fight. But they have no time to mourn, for the next round of trials is about to begin. When the group discovers that their next foe will be even more ferocious than the last, Cade leads them on a quest out into their strange new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHYashima, Tarō
Summary: Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she received on her third birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1972
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YASMatharu, Taran
Summary: When Fletcher, a blacksmith's apprentice, learns he can summon demons, he travels with his demon to an academy for adepts where he is to train as a Battlemage in the Empire's war against the orcs, but he discovers that all is not as it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATTaira, Kenji
Summary: Uchiha Sasuke, the brooding loner who will do anything to avenge his clan and kill his older brother... Yes, this is his story, but with a hilarious twist! In Naruto: Chibi Sasuke's Sharingan Legend, the characters and story have been flipped on their heads, all for the sake of comedy! With his Taka teammates Suigetsu, Karin and Jugo, Sasuke travels the land and gets into all kinds of wacky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NARZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHZgheib, Yara
Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he'd landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ZGHAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ADATarr, Bela
Summary: A rural farmer and his daughter must accept the fate of their dying horse and learn to survive without him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TURTarr, Judith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARGomi, Tarō
Summary: In simple text this book follows the daily activities of a young boy who is always the first in every activity--waking up, eating breakfast, playing, and getting ready for bed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOMMitsuboshi, Tama
Summary: "Deep within the forest resides a curious pair--Mira, a girl with an affliction that calls forth the night, and Rei, a kindly doctor searching for the cure. Their days pass peacefully, until an old acquaintance of Rei's appears..."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2023
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Summary: When the king and queen find a very tiny princess in their garden, they adopt her and make a bed for her from a feather, but the girl begins to grow so much that she needs a new bed every night, and eventually gets too big for the castle itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MIUYashima, Taro
Summary: A tender story of a neglected outsider and the power he gains from being accepted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YASHorn, Dara
Summary: Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally, but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die. "What would it really mean to live forever? Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can`t die. Her recent troubles--widowhood, a failing business, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHorn, Dara
Summary: While consulting at an Egyptian library, software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi is kidnapped and her talent for preserving memories becomes her only means of escape as the power of her ingenious work is revealed, while jealous sister Judith takes over Josie's life at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013