Summary: Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUEEnriquez, 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 ENRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRMadonna
Summary: A boy learns a lesson about the destructive power of gossip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Callaway 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MADFiorato, Marina.
Summary: Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to Louis XIV of France to protect his secret daughter. In the present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOFiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague--and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOSenft, Adina.
Summary: As romance blossoms between her and Eli Fischer, Amelia Beiler is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and faces a hard choice, since she will be shunned by her Amish community if she gets the treatment she wants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Senft 2011Endicott, Marina
Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDKeegan, Marina
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.609 KEESummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUCall, Marina
Summary: What if you had always dreamed of traveling and suddenly you received some money to make this happen? Oscar Santos embarks on a train and begins his journey eastbound. Leaving his native Portugal, he enters Spain and meets Daniel, upending his plans for a solo journey . These two unlikely characters become friends quickly and soon discover there is much more to learn on their travels than mere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Call of Eden Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALFiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them together again?When nineteen year old Beatrice is brought to live at her uncle's court in Sicily to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUKualakara, Sacina.
Summary: "Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity. Brother and sister Tanay and Anuja both fall in love with the same man, an artist lodging in their family home in Pune, in western India. He seems like the perfect tenant, ready with the rent and happy to listen to their mother's musings on the imminent collapse of Indian culture. But he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUAMofina, Rick.
Summary: Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes—one, an off-duty FBI agent she tried to help. Now Lisa is the FBI's secret witness and the key to finding the fugitive killers. FBI agent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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Ahmad, Aamina
Summary: "Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AHMLucier, Makiia
Summary: When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCMozina, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZHo, Carina
Summary: "Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is ... well ... the same. Except our protagonist: Mighty Mara! She's a little different. While her classmates sign up and ready their performances for the school talent show, Mara musters up the courage to also sign up--but unlike the others, she's going to dance, dance, dance! The only problem is, everyone encourages her not to! Mara won't let...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOKhan, Sabina
Summary: "Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHAMandine, Selma
Summary: Teddy Bear learns that although there are many different kinds of kisses, the best ones come from the people you love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANMandino, Og
Summary: "Tras sufrir la irreparable p rdida de su esposa e hijo en un accidente automovilístico, John Harding, un hombre que se consideraba exitoso hasta ese momento, cae en una profunda depresión. Gracias a un amigo comenzará a dirigir un equipo de beisbol infantil y conocerá a Timothy Noble, un niño de once años, poseedor de una voluntad inquebrantable a pesar de su falta de habilidad. A través de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diana 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MANMofina, Rick
Summary: "When a teen falls while taking a selfie at the edge of a cliff, the last thing she sees before plummeting to her death is Katie Harmon, the nine-year-old girl she was babysitting, looking down at her. Investigators gather at the scene, and Katie's mother, Sara, rushes to comfort her daughter. Yet there's a small, secret ping of alarm in Sara's heart that she cannot share--though rookie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOFDomanska, Janina.
Summary: A farm child has a very busy week helping his father with the hay-making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1985