Sacasa, María del Mar
Summary: Presents one hundred summer cocktail recipes, including bourbon-peach punch, watermelon refresher, and martinis, with recipes for snacks and party meals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.87 SACMarra, Anthony
Summary: After America's entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned father's past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARWojciechowska, Maia
Summary: Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOJSummary: From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: Will is locked in a mental asylum accused of Hannibal Lecter's crimes. Now that Will knows what Hannibal is, he faces a fight to prove his own sanity and convince those closest to him that he is innocent. Jack is dealing with his own feelings about Will, and whether his protege is a killer. Looking for answers, Jack looks to Lecter, who becomes the new consultant on cases. Lecter is torn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANIngrande Mora, Maria
Summary: The only way sixteen-year-old Nate, a Genetically Engineered Metatissue, can get life-saving medication is to work for a shadowy terrorist organization, which would mean leaving the boy he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INGIngrande Mora, Maria
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Brynn can't stop thinking about death. Her intrusive thoughts and severe anxiety leave her feeling helpless--and hopeless. So after her mom interprets one of Brynn's blog posts as a suicide note, she takes extreme measures, confiscating Brynn's phone, blocking her Internet access, and banishing her to stay with her father who lives "off the grid" on a houseboat in the Florida...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INGMarra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Vara, Vauhini
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 VARSummary: A grown woman confronts an older man, her former neighbor, to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship when she was thirteen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vision Films 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNASummary: A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BARLunde, Maja
Summary: From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNMarz, Ron.
Summary: "During a ceremony to celebrate the Skytrain connecting to the Skylands to the Cloudbreak Islands, the train is stolen by a gang of gear trolls and it's up to Jawbreaker to save the day. Meanwhile, Cynder meets a fairy named Calliope after winning a tournament" --From the Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARRaheem, 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 ZGHCuevas, Mayra
Summary: Neither Malena nor Ruby expected to be leaders of their high school's dress code rebellion. Meanwhile, the girls have to face their own insecurities and biases, as well as the ups and downs of their newfound friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CUECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CUEDole, Mayra
Summary: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community plan a surprise block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 DOLZgheib, 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, Call number: FIC ZGHCopies Available at Woodmere
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 ZGHJortner, Maura
Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JORSummary: In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMBoyadjian, Maral
Summary: It is 1913 and late summer in the Ottoman Empire. The sun rises, full and golden, atop a lush, centuries-old village tucked into the highlands where the blood-red poppies bloom. Outside the village leader's home, the sound of voices carries past the grapevines to the lane where Anno, his youngest daughter, slips out unseen. She heads to a secret meeting place. She forgets that enemies surround...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salor Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYHornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORVara, 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