Pacifico, Francesco
Summary: When aspiring filmmaker Lorenzo gets a scholarship to Columbia University, he and his girlfriend Ludovica move to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and fall in with a group of artistically-minded Italian expats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACSedita, Francesco
Summary: Kyle, Vic, Harry, Beth, and Nate try to return home after being transported fifty years into the past while attempting to avoid questions about who--and from when--they are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SEDSummary: Father of the bride: The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement, setting off an outrageous chin of events, including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FATDimitri, Francesco
Summary: It's been labelled a doomsday cult, but the Bastion might be humanity's last hope. Amidst all the lies and chaos, come hear their true story, in their own words. On the rural coast of Puglia, Italy, Becca and Ric run the Bastion, offering solace and a home for lost souls. Each year they welcome new members to join the Open Feast, where they teach them to release their burdens and create a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tital Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMSedita, Francesco.
Summary: Cassie Knight is bubbly, stylish, and super-friendly, the fashion queen at her Texas school. When her father moves the family to Maine, Cassie's in for a huge culture shock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SEDBoada, Francesc.
Summary: A clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BOAMelandri, Francesca
Summary: Story of Eva, a forty-year-old from Alto Adige. One night Eva receives a phone call from Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy. Vito, a carabiniere who served for years in Alto Adige, is dying and would like to see Eva one last time. Vito served in Alto Adige during the seventies, years of darkness and tension. However, that did not stop the love between Vito, and Gerda, Eva's mother, a young cook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: When a young girl has to move countries and start at a new school, her fear tells her to be alone and afraid. How can she hope to make friends if she doesn't understand anyone? Surely no one else feels the same way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2018
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Summary: "Taking place between 1993 and 2018 in Colombia and New York City, The Lucky Ones is a prismatic tale of a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways and whose stories, taken together, provide a lens on the intensity of life in Colombia during the violent years of guerrilla insurgencies and corruption. A teenager hides alone in her family's mansion until she hears a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACFlores, Francesca
Summary: While Aina reluctantly conspires with her former criminal boss to prevent a corrupt general from returning to take over the government, she secretly learns to use blood magic to defeat both men, hoping to secure freedom for herself and her city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FLOGiacco, Francesca
Summary: "Emilia arrives in Rome reeling from heartbreak and reckoning with her past. What was supposed to be a romantic trip has, with the sudden end of a relationship, become a solitary one instead. As she wanders, music, art, food, and the beauty of Rome's wide piazzas and narrow streets color Emilia's dreamy, but weighty experience of the city. She considers the many facets of her life, drifting in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIASegal, Francesca
Summary: "A wry, tender novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary choices. Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him somuch. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Simon, Francesca
Summary: At bedtime, a little boy asks the moon if it likes some of his favorite activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SIMStanfill, Francesca
Summary: Set in France and England at the end of the twelfth century, the moving story of a spirited, questing young woman, Isabelle, who defies convention to forge a remarkable life, one profoundly influenced by the fabled queen she idolizes and comes to know--Eleanor of Aquitaine. A sweeping, suspenseful tale about marriage, freedom, identity, and motherhood, The Falcon's Eyes not only illuminates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStork, Francisco X
Summary: When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasonswhy she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION STOAnnis, Francesca.
Summary: The husband and wife team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford take over a detective agency in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAFlores, Francesca
Summary: Pulled from the streets at age twelve and trained to become one of the most powerful assassins in Sumerand, Aina Solís discovers a conspiracy that could rewrite the kingdom's history and her own future. After the murder of her parents, Aina Solís takes a job as an assassin to survive. She finds a new family in those like her: the unwanted and forgotten. Diamond City was built by magic, and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FLOHaig, Francesca
Summary: "The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIHaig, Francesca.
Summary: Concludes the story of psychic Omega Cass and her powerful Alpha twin, Zach, on a dystopian world struggling for balance between a backward government and its oppressed people centuries after a nuclear apocalypse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIMay, Francesca
Summary: "On Crow Island, people whispered, real magic lurked just below the surface, but Annie Mason never expected her enigmatic new neighbor to be a witch. When she witnesses a confrontation between her best friend Bea and the infamous Emmeline Delacroix at one of Emmeline's extravagantly illicit parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where magic can buy what money can not; a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAYPirrone, Francesca
Summary: "A little book about kindness and friendship. For people of all ages."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIRSanna, Francesca
Summary: During a war, a mother and her two children set out on a search for a new home--a journey filled with both uncertainty and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SANEkwuyasi, Francesca
Summary: "Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EKWHornak, Francesca
Summary: "A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays... It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter--who is usually off saving the world--will be joining them at Weyfield Hall, their aging country estate. But Olivia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017