Subramanian, Mathangi
Summary: "In Bangalore, India, five young women fight to save their homes, which are really only shacks and lean-tos, in a slum named "Heaven," which the city wants to bulldoze in order to accommodate its growing tech industry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUBSubramaniam, Suma
Summary: "In this lyrical picture book, a young girl learns how to make a bindi in the traditional way with the help of her Paati. Into the clay pot go the ingredients, such as turmeric and sandalwood powder. She stirs and stirs and stirs until ... like magic, the mixture transforms from yellow to bright red. When the girl wears her bindi, she discovers what it means to her -- how it keeps her calm and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SUBSubramaniam, Suma
Summary: "Discover namaste's many meanings in a simple, lyrical text, paired with a charmingly detailed visual narrative about a little girl's kindness. What is namaste? It's found in a smile, a friendship, a celebration. It exists in silence; it can be said when you're happy or when you're feeling low. For one small girl in a bustling city, namaste ("I bow to you") is all around her as she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: "Come Rain or Shine. The skies have reclaimed the Weather Maiden, and Hodaka is on the run! All Hodaka cares about is saving the girl who took his world by storm, but is he willing to tempt the fates to bring sunshine back into his life? In Weathering With You, Makoto Shinkai dives into topics like love and sacrifice to show how far one boy goes to protect the thing he loves most. This manga...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WEAShinkai, Makoto
Summary: A collection of four interrelated, stream-of-consciousness short stories follows women and their cat companions as they explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIShinkai, Makoto
Summary: "Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a rural town deep in the mountains, has a dream that she is a boy living an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As they realize they are changing places, their encounter sets the cogs of fate into motion."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIShaskan, Stephen
Summary: Pizza's and Taco's moms want them to join a sports team, so when they see the wrestling sign-up sheet at school they choose their wrestling names and create signature moves, hoping to join the club--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: Follows an eager young girl on a trip to the farmers' market with her parents as she contemplates what to buy with the money from her piggy bank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E TreShankle, Melanie
Summary: When their family takes a beach vacation, Piper and Mabel are left at the Happy Tails Ranch, but run away after seeing it is not a real ranch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAMiles, Shanna
Summary: Through countless lives, seventeen-year-olds Tamar and Fayard have fallen in love, fought to be together, and died but when they discover what it will take to break the cycle, will they be able to make the sacrifice? Tamar is a musician, a warrior, a survivor. Fayard is a pioneer, a hustler, a hopeless romantic. Together they have lived a thousand lives, seen the world build itself up from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILMahin, Shanna
Summary: "Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking. Enter Jess's mother--a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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Summary: Charlotte has a talent for anything technological, so when she receives a doll as a present, she upgrades it with a few spare parts and some code to create a new and improved friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCShaskan, Stephen
Summary: "Pizza and Taco have decided to start a band, now all they need is to find some instruments, bandmates, and write a song or two"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHAShaskan, Stephen
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text invite the reader to help Toad learn that the road is no place to play
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAShinkai, Makoto
Summary: "Hodaka has finally started to feel like he's found his place in Tokyo with Hina and Nagi, but his sunny days won't last forever. The Sunshine Girl powers are beginning to take their toll on Hina, putting her in danger of disappearing into the skies. And as the rain returns and Tokyo's weather starts to intensify, an incident from Hodaka's recent past closes in on him. He'll have to fight to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WEAShinkai, Makoto
Summary: "The summer of freshman year of high school. A boy named Hodaka runs away from his island home and goes to Tokyo, where he spends every day in loneness. Then, in a corner of the bustling city he meets a girl named Hina. But he soon finds out that she possesses a mysterious power."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing 2020
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Summary: Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, gruelling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women--soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MATYoungdahl, Shana
Summary: "In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions. Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YOUShaskan, Stephen
Summary: Best friends Pizza and Taco are ready to head back to school, but there are lots of other cool kids, like Cheeseburger and B.L.T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: Pizza and Taco are bored and decide to throw a party, but despite their careful planning, nothing seems to go right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Summary: "Besties Pizza and Taco are on a mission to prove they're not scared of anything, including scary movies and Ghost Peppers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PIZShaskan, Trisha Speed
Summary: Quillan Hedgeson, a hedgehog, and Raymond Ratzburg, a rat, are students (and crime solvers) at Elm Tree Elementary school. When a theft occurs during a class trip to the local art museum, Q and Ray set out to solve the case, using their wits and a series of disguises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHAMathews, Sarah Thankam
Summary: Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, gruelling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women--soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATShaskan, Trisha Speed
Summary: Hedgehog Quillan Hedgson, a.k.a Q, and rat Ray Ratzburg are second-grade students and sleuths who use handwriting analysis and photographic evidence to solve the case of a stolen autographed baseball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2018