Summary: Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef who wants his cooking to bring people together, but his half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family has never had a meal that didn't end in a fight. Ditching his traditional summer camp, Abe begins working with Chico, an adventurous street chef who encourages him to think outside his old cuisines. However, when Abe's deceit is uncovered, he must grapple with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breaking Glass Pictures 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABEEnriquez, Mariana
Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRJohnson, Varian
Summary: Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHAzuela, Mariano
Summary: "The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Mac©Ưas, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa's army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Azuela 2008Kamali, Marjan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORKamali, Marjan
Summary: "A novel set in 1953 Tehran, against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup, about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later, after having moved on to live independent lives in America, to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day in the town square"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Cole, Carian.
Summary: I felt the wind rustle, warning me, telling me to get out of its path-but I didn't. I never stood a chance.A series of weather and road mishaps leave me trapped in the middle of a blizzard with a complete stranger. In the back of a pickup truck. For forty-eight freakin' hours.A stranger with long hair, tattoos, and rippling with muscle. A stranger with an insanely sexy voice and a wicked smile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Marias, Javier
Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARNorth, Darian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORPalova, Mariana
Summary: "¿No estás harto de tener miedo? ¿No querrías tener la certeza, pro primera vez en la vida, de que no estás loco? ¿De saber que todo lo que ves y lo que te pasa... es real?" Durante casi toda su vida, Elisse ha sido acosado por criaturas horripilantes que al parecer nadie más puede ver ni escuchar. Desesperado por huir tanto de ellas como de su pasado decide marcharse de la mística India, el...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gran Travesía 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH PALMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When teenage best friends, Callie and Avery are kidnapped from a tent in their front yard in a sleepy Midwestern town, the entire population of Newell is rocked to its core.But when one of the girls returns twenty-four hours later, her body covered in injuries and zero recollection of what happened, the search is on for the girl who didn’t get away…Callie is still missing, her whereabouts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Blair and Bristol Bellamy’s overprotective parents agreed to let their daughters spend spring break in Oahu, they never anticipated that only one of them would return. What should have been a week of soaking up the Hawaiian sun next to pristine blue waters takes an unexpected turn when Blair wakes up on the beach one morning with no purse, no shoes, and no memory of what happened the night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMariani, Scott.
Summary: Former British Special Air Service operative Ben Hope is crushed over the loss of his wife. Wishing to start anew, he decides to put his deadly past behind him and return to studying theology. But when his professor's archaeologist daughter goes missing, Ben soon finds himself embroiled in a chilling mystery involving a newly discovered artifact and its secret ties to the Book of Revelation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARBabson, Marian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABCrotty, Marian
Summary: "In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In "Crazy for You," two girls spy on a neighbor's sex life, while their own sexuality hovers in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Of Iowa Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROKeyes, Marian.
Summary: When Anna Walsh--who has a job and husband in Manhattan--wakes up in her family's house in Dublin badly injured and with no memory of what has happened, she returns to New York to find clues to her memory loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEYMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Levin Crowdley stumbles upon evidence that suggests her adoring fiance is behind the murder of her childhood best friend, she knows fleeing from him is the only way to stay alive. But Alec won't be left that easily. In fact, nobody has ever left him and lived to tell. The moment Alec finds their dream home empty and Levin's engagement ring lying in the crib he'd purchased for the baby he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMariani, Scott.
Summary: After a world-famous opera star--and ex-flame--asks him to investigate her brother's mysterious death, British Air Service officer Ben Hope gets caught up in a centuries-old web of intrigue surrounding the death--and possible murder--of Mozart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARLlanos, Mariana
Summary: "Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from Peruvian lore. To the creatures' disbelief, Benita is so absorbed by her book that she's not the least bit scared of them. This humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the "scary" out of monsters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LLAKeyes, Marian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEYMontgomery, Marin
Summary: What does the tragic death of a twenty-seven-year-old Portland beauty have to do with a suburban mother in Houston? Everything. Only Meghan Bishop doesn't know it yet. When the married mother stumbles upon evidence suggesting someone close to her may have ties to the heinous crime the nation can't stop talking about, she's forced to dive headfirst into an ocean of secrets she never knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontgomery, Marin
Summary: "From the outside looking in, Sibley Sawyer has a perfect life. As a successful attorney, she's worked hard to get to the top of her game--but when her personal and professional lives implode, Sibley looks for a way to turn the page. Unable to shake the tragic circumstances that caused her to flee her rural Midwestern hometown, Sibley wants nothing more than to reunite with her estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021