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In the country of others 2Aboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAboulela, Leila
Summary: It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that her star student, Oz, is not only descended from the warrior but also possesses Shamil’s priceless sword, the Imam’s story comes vividly to life. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMeacham, Leila
Summary: A mysterious inheritance takes lovely Cara Martin from Boston to a ranch in West Texas, where she encounters its forceful owner, Jeth Langston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEASales, Leila
Summary: Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALSlimani, Leïla
Summary: "In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLICorman, Leela
Summary: "One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2024
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.5 CORSlimani, Leïla
Summary: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLIAboulela, Leila
Summary: "This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMeacham, Leila
Summary: At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MEACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Meacham 2019Meacham, Leila
Summary: "A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of Roses. Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEASales, Leila.
Summary: Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SALCorman, Leela.
Summary: "A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CORSlimani, Leïla
Summary: Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed and studious, dreams of leaving Morocco to study medicine in her mother's homeland. Her younger brother, Selim, the family's errant misfit, will forge a path of rebellion among the European hippies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLIMeacham, Leila
Summary: Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined: Samantha...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Meacham 2016Mottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOTMottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOTSales, Leila
Summary: Twelve-year-old Maddie runs her babysitter Janet's campaign to become mayor of their city and protect arts funding. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALNargi, Lela.
Summary: Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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Summary: In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America-a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LALAboulela, Leila
Summary: Their fortune threatened by shifting powers in Sudan and their heir's debilitating accident, a powerful family under the leadership of Mahmoud Bey is torn between the traditional and modern values of Mahmoud's two wives and his son's efforts to break with cultural limits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMeacham, Leila
Summary: Some people aren't meant for happily-ever-after. And Deborah Standridge is one of them. When she called off her wedding to the perfect man to pursue her passion as an architect across the country, she didn't mean to hurt anyone. But Deborah saw her chance to finally make her own dreams come and she took it, setting in motion a tragedy that has haunted her ever since. Now, as one of Denver's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MEASales, Leila
Summary: Vanessa isn't sure which happened first: finding the abandoned museum or losing her best friend Bailey. She doesn't know what to do with herself now that Bailey has left her behind--but when she stumbles upon an empty, forgotten museum, her purpose becomes clear. Vanessa starts filling the museum with her own artifacts and memories, hoping that perhaps, if she can find the right way to tell the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SALAboulela, Leila
Summary: "Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life. Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the lives of immigrants at home and abroad as they forge new identities and reshape old ones. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOHowland, Leila
Summary: After bonding over their distaste for the roles they are expected to fill, Rapunzel and Cassandra discover a secret lagoon said to hold the kingdom's greatest power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2017