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Apartheid South Africa Fiction Imaginary companions Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Missing persons Fiction Mystery and detective stories Science fiction Self-realization Fiction South Africa History 1961-1994 Fiction South Africa History Soweto Uprising, 1976 FictionSummary: An untested American submarine captain teams with US Navy SEALs to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HUNDorris, Michael.
Summary: Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DORDorris, Michael.
Summary: Moving backward in time, Dorris's critically acclaimed debut novel is a lyrical saga of three generations of Native American women beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DorPortis, Charles
Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORMorais, Richard C.
Summary: It is a time of reckoning for José María Álvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with his American wife. Nearing the end of a long and tumultuous life, he’s overcome by hallucinatory memories of the past. Among his most cherished memories are those of his boyhood in 1950s Franco-era Spain and the bucolic afternoons he spent salmon fishing on the Sella River with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MorBurris, Priscilla
Summary: "Children have fun at school experiencing familiar classroom activities for the first time"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BURMerlis, Mark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MERMorrey, Beth
Summary: "The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORNorriss, Andrew.
Summary: "Floyd is a teenage tennis prodigy. Since he was little, all he's ever known is the routine of training, of matches, of working hard to rise to the top. But something strange is happening. Floyd is being followed by a boy whom no one else can see. And Mike will go to all lengths to make himself heard. Floyd will discover that finding out what Mike wants will changes the course of his entire...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NORNorris, Elizabeth.
Summary: Four months after Ben returned to his home universe, Janelle learns that he is the prime suspect in a human trafficking ring, and she and Interverse Agent Barclay have five days to find the real culprit or the missing people may be lost forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NORNorris, Elizabeth.
Summary: "If Janelle Tenner wants to avenge her father's death and stop the end of the world, she's going to need to uncover Ben's secrets--and keep from falling in love with him in the process"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NORLeer, Korrie
Summary: To escape the nonstop, loud crying of her new baby brother Cassie climbs into an empty box to drive, sail, and soar until she finally finds quiet--and loneliness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEEMarais, Bianca
Summary: "Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMorais, Richard C.
Summary: "From the writer whose debut sleeper, The Hundred-Foot Journey, charmed readers in the United States and around the world (18 countries and counting) comes another modern day fairytale also about a man who finds his true calling while living in a foreignland"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorrill, Stephanie
Summary: When her best friend Lydia disappears, Piper Sail goes searching for answers in the dark underbelly of 1924 Chicago, uncovering deep corruption that may lead back to her affluent neighborhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MORMarais, Bianca
Summary: "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMorrill, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morrill 2013Morais, Richard C.
Summary: "That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is an artist." And so begins the rise of Hassan Haji, the unlikely gourmand who recounts his life's journey in this novel. Born above his grandfather's modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morais 2011Merlis, Mark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MERMirvis, Tova.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRMorrey, Beth
Summary: "A heartening and life-affirming novel about a single mother learning to make a bigger life, and the power of human connection to grow our worlds"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorrill, Lauren
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Beck rediscovers herself while working with a group of misfits at the local pizza parlor where she was born.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MORNorris, Kate
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Winnie, who can see alternate realities, finds herself transported to one and must now find her way back to save the man she loves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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Summary: Violinist Maddie elopes with Lane Moritomo, the ambitious son of Japanese immigrants, but after Pearl Harbor is bombed, Lane is seen as the enemy and she must sacrifice her Juilliard ambitions when he is interned at a war relocation camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012