Shamsie, Kamila
Summary: "Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAVarela, Alejandro
Summary: "When his father falls ill, Andrés, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVictoire, Camila
Summary: "At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VICRowser, Jamila
Summary: "A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWShamsie, Kamila
Summary: July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the tallest of men. Nearby is the familiar lean form of her father's old friend, Tahsin Bey, an archaeologist. Viv is about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure and the ecstasy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atavist Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShamsie, Kamila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: Explore English gardens, London ballrooms, and Scottish castles as nine brides-to-be experience all the legendary drama and epic romance that British literature is known for. Each of the nine short stories will sweep you away to a different era of time spanning over 500 years of history in the British Isles. Penned by an exclusive selection of Christian fiction authors including Kelly Eileen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRID'Amico, Carmela.
Summary: Ella is nervous about the first day of school in her new town, but wearing her grandmother's good luck hat makes her feel better--until the other students tease her and call her names.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC D'AMNair, Kamala.
Summary: When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIAbela, Deborah
Summary: Collects three stories about Jasper Zammit and his under-11s soccer team, the Rovers, in which Lil and Jasper work to become friends, Aamir is bullied by another team's player, and the team is assigned a new coach obsessed with winning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Australia 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABEKay, Camelia
Summary: Follow along with Mama and Baby Bunny as they lead a festive parade of their friends through the blossoming flowers and trees, rejoicing at the coming of spring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAYShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: Raised from birth alongside her best friend Karim, Raheen enjoys a privileged Karachi childhood and mourns their separation when Karim's family moves, learning in the years that follow about their parents' complex friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HARCO 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: Based on real-life events. Chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: This stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARNoor, Nabela
Summary: Zubi, a happy Bangladeshi girl, is excited about her first day of school, but at breakfast she is puzzled by her mother and older sister worrying about being "too big," and even at school she hears other people criticizing each other's bodies, and she starts to worry that maybe something is wrong with how she looks--until her declaration at dinner that she is on a diet makes her family realize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOOAhmed, Jamila
Summary: "In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: "A chronically frustrated eleven-year-old girl named Gwendolyn Rogers comes to realize she has an undiagnosed mental health issue and tries every way possible to get control of her emotions"-- No one can figure out what Gwendolyn Rogers's problem is--not her mom, or her teachers, or any of the many therapists she's seen. But Gwendolyn knows she doesn't have just one thing wrong with her: she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAONoel, Kaela
Summary: "Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIAlexander, Tamera
Summary: Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee. As a conscripted Confederate soldier he likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin. Catriona leaves their Irish homeland in search of him with their seven-year-old spitfire sister, Nora, hoping to reunite the siblings. Wade Cunningham is a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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Summary: McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P ALEBauer, Pamela.
Summary: Things change. Coming home isn't easy for Dylan Donovan. He left thirteen years ago, carrying a terrible secret about his father, and he can't believe what's happened since. His widowed mother is now a savvy entrepreneur, his family home has been turned into student housing and his brothers seem to think his well-meant advice is just bossy interference. And then there's Maddie Lamont--Dylan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2012