Schreck, Karen Halvorsen
Summary: When Rose becomes a singer at a jazz club, she finds herself falling for the African American pianist and the two begin a relationship marked by prejudice and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchreck, Karen.
Summary: One year—he'll be gone for one year and then we'll be together again and everything will be back to the way it should be. The day David left, I felt like my heart was breaking. Sure, any long–distance relationship is tough, but David was going to war—to fight, to protect, to put his life in danger. We can get through this, though. We'll talk, we'll email, we won't let anything come between us....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2012
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Summary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSchneck, Colombe
Summary: "A woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: During a sweltering 1960 Milwaukee heat wave, Sally O'Malley struggles with the trauma of her father's sudden death and her sister Troo's possible role in a string of burglaries, an escape from a reform school, and an orphan's disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAGMahajan, Karan
Summary: After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHWang, Daren
Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANCallender, Kacen
Summary: Lark Winters wants to be a writer, and for now that means posting on their social media accounts--anything to build their platform. When former best friend Kasim accidentally posts a thread on Lark's Twitter declaring his love for a secret, unrequited crush, Lark's tweets are suddenly the talk of the school--and beyond. To protect Kasim, Lark decides to take the fall, pretending they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALKagen, Lesley
Summary: "The summer of 1960 was the hottest ever for Summit, Wisconsin. For kids seeking relief from the heat, there was a creek to be swum in, sprinklers to run through, and ice cream at Whitcomb's Drugstore. But for Frankie, Viv, and Biz, eleven-year-old best friends, it would forever be remembered as the summer that evil paid a visit to their small town - and took their young lives as they'd known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAGLandsman, Keren
Summary: Throughout human history there have always been sorcerers, once idolised and now exploited for their powers. In Israel, the Sons of Simeon, a group of religious extremists, persecute sorcerers while the government turns a blind eye. After a march for equal rights ends in brutal murder, empath, moodifier and reluctant waiter Reed becomes the next target. While his sorcerous and normie friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANČapek, Karel
Summary: Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catbird Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPParsons, Karyn
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: During the summer a family of bears enjoys the comforts of life at a cottage by a lake, alongside the human visitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East 2011
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Summary: Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors--young children, marriage, money--and she's settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAICallender, Kacen
Summary: "In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime. Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic, so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage’s College, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he’s discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested, but instead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALEggert, Maren
Summary: In order to fund her own research, a scientist participates in an experiment in which she lives with a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect life partner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distribution Solutions 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN I'MMaren, Mesha
Summary: "Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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Summary: When the summer visitors leave in the fall, a new group of visitors moves into the vacation cottage to spend the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAYSchrank, Ben.
Summary: Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchrank, Ben.
Summary: "[Decades ago, Peter Herman wrote a much-beloved book on marriage.] Now a widower, Peter finds himself in a new relationship and questioning his own advice. So when his publishing company decides to sponsor a contest for struggling couples-- with an afternoon of his counseling as the grand prize-- Peter must face up to truths he's struggled with for far too long" -- from publisher's web site.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCHCallender, Kacen
Summary: Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALCallender, Kacen
Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022