Saterstrom, Selah
Summary: On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a performance artist and best-selling author, and it is really Barbara Walters she's narrating this tale to? We're too dazzled to know more than that this is about how a girl ends up in the backwash of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATKenah, Katharine
Summary: "With five Thanksgiving dinners to eat, there's going to be one very stuffed turkey!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2015
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE KENBadani, Sejal
Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018Mandine, 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 MANSalih, Zak
Summary: "Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian-both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence-spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALSuzanne, Lilah
Summary: Carter's fianc? is in love with someone else. Link has just been left at the altar. After bonding over mutual heartbreak at the would-be reception's open bar, Link and Carter pass out in the honeymoon suite--and are mistaken for the happy newlywed couple the next morning. Reluctant to deal with the fallout from their breakups, they embark on an exciting week of fake honeymooning, during which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlude Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUZAbdoh, Salar
Summary: "Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most popular TV shows but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war, an existential battle, a declaration of faith, and, for some, a passing weekend affair. After weeks spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDBadani, Sejal
Summary: When New York journalist Jaya suffers her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage, she is desperate to assuage her deep anguish. Going to India to uncover answers to her family's past, she is intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences. Ravi, her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant, reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BADSelasi, Taiye.
Summary: Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. In the wake of Kweku's death, his children gather in Ghana at their enigmatic mother's new home. The eldest son and his wife; the mysterious, beautiful twins;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SELShevah, Emma
Summary: Lexie and her fragile cousin Elena are inseparable until Lexie tells a lie that splits apart her large, colorful Greek-Cypriot family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHEBlum, Hilah
Summary: "The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling conundrum: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she's never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years. At the center of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLURelth, Michael
Summary: "A dog writes the story of its adoption-and learning to live in a loving home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RELSturges, Lilah
Summary: "The Magicians : Alice's Story is an all new chapter set in the world of The Magicians trilogy of novels by New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman that retells the events of the first novel through fan-favorite character Alice Quinn. Alice Quinn is manifestly brilliant, and she's always known that magic is real. During her years at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, she rises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 STUHouse, Silas
Summary: In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle in to her new life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOUWelsh, Irvine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Irvine.
Summary: After accidentally setting free two serial pedophiles, Lucy Brenna, a once heroic Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, is transformed into a villain who cannot stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, and imprisons her client, Lena, who is obsessed with her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELHouse, Silas
Summary: "In the near future, as fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a boat headed to Ireland, which is rumored to be accepting refugees and is the last country not yet overrun by extremists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction HouseAbdoh, Salar
Summary: "A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Abdoh, Salar
Summary: Iranian ex-pat Reza Malek's quiet professorial life is upended when he returns to Tehran to help his best friend Sina Vava who is involved with Shia militants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDMagruder, Nilah
Summary: "Equipped with a camera and determination, an adventurous little girl tries to track down an elusive red fox, which proves more difficult than she thought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAGShevah, Emma
Summary: Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHEShevah, Emma
Summary: Abandoned by her father at a young age, half-Japanese, half-Italian middle schooler Amber Miyamoto must dream up a way for her and her sister to make it on their own while making friends at her new school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHESlash, Cinder
Summary: Invites young readers to enjoy a day at the carnival, including rides, snacks, clowns, and games,
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing USA 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SLASummary: On the shores of Lake Michigan, the eccentric Captain Seafield enlists a colourful crew of misfits in a bid to slay the hellish sea monster that prowls the murky depths. But as Seafield's obsession with exacting revenge on the creature that killed his father threatens to consume him, can weapons expert Sean Shaughnessy, sonar whiz Nedge Pepsi, and officer Dick Flynn hold the show together?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020