Menon, Sandhya
Summary: Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha might have a few...quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENSathian, Sanjena
Summary: "An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Sathian 2021Stevens, Satia.
Summary: When Donald Duck takes his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, on a camping trip, he thinks he knows everything about the outdoors. But things don't always go as planned, and soon Huey, Dewey, Louie are showing him a thing or two with the help of their handy camping guidebook! Join Donald and his nephews in this hilarious story as they rough the wilderness!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Book Group 2010
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Wunsch, Sacha
Summary: In a world where memories can be shared but not trusted, Nova, whose parents developed the Enhanced Memory technology, finds herself questioning their motives after she meets a boy who runs a secret vlog cataloging real experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WUNParappukkaran, Sandhya
Summary: When her mother's sari draws stares, a little girl asks her mother to tell her more about her culture and learns to take pride in her differences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARSatyal, Rakesh
Summary: "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATDave, Saumya
Summary: "From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams. Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her writing "hobby." But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran's life, she begins to question...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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Summary: Told through letters, aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra learns a lesson about love while directing a movie for the Midsummer Night arts festival, in which her longtime crush and his twin brother are also participating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENMorgan, LaToya
Summary: Avery Aldridge was a decorated soldier during World War II; now he's just an ordinary young Black man busy providing for his family. But he's haunted by the wounds of war, and after a run-in awakens latent abilities, he'll discover he's anything but ordinary. But between flashbacks, ever-emerging and frightening powers, and a seemingly kind doctor with unclear motives, will Avery be able to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DARWatkins, LaToya
Summary: "In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something-hope, reconciliation, freedom. In 'Cutting Horse,' the appearance of a horse in a man's suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In 'Holler,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatkins, LaToya
Summary: In a tight-knit, rural Black Texan community of Jerusalem, the Turner clan comes toether as the family says good-bye to their matriarch on her deathbed. The family's "reunion" unearths long-kept secrets: Julie regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; police offier Alex grapples with a dark and twisted past; Jan yearns to go leave her children--and Jerusalem-- behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATKullab, Samya
Summary: "A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 971 KULTep, Ratha
Summary: Wally was the world's greatest piano-playing wombat--until he realized there was an even more talented piano-playing wombat in town! This funny picture book's bright colors and imaginative musical scenes teach children to have self-confidence when faced with competition. When Wally, the world's greatest piano-playing wombat, hears Wylie play, he becomes envious. Wally tries toe-tapping and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction TepApekina, Katya
Summary: "Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2024
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Summary: Told in two voices, disappointed-in-love Ashish Patel and self-proclaimed fat athlete Sweetie Nair begin to find their true selves while dating under contract.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENMenon, Sandhya
Summary: When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting an arranged marriage with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENParappukkaran, Sandhya
Summary: When Zimdalamashkermishkada starts a new school, he decides to shrink his name to the shorter, simpler Zim, but when his new friend Elly sees him for who he truly is, Zimdalamashkermishkada finds the confidence to step proudly into his long name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARCotter, Sacha
Summary: A little girl enjoys her father's imaginative explanations of his keys, from the one that starts the zippenburger he drives to work to the one that leads to her at the end of the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2023
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Summary: "Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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Summary: Determined to execute the perfect cannonball dive, a boy tries to follow everyone's advice but finally hears Nan, an expert and former champion, who advises doing it his own way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2020
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Summary: Ten-year-old Frank's life revolves around his autistic brother, five-year-old Max, but after many changes over the course of a year, he discovers that he loves Max and is proud of him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALSathue, E. K.
Summary: "From Sophia Bannion's first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York City's glitziest neighborhood, it's clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty with plenty of skeletons in her closetnext to the designer knock-offs, doesn't care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she aches for a deeper meaning to her flat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASMayer, Sasha
Summary: Squash, who looks a lot like the vegetable, is an early-breakfast, lots-of-naps kind of cat. Maggie is a wake-up-late, wild-playdate kind of girl. Despite their differences, they are the best of friends. That is until one day Squash confuses Maggie's new toy for a dangerous beast and makes a terrible mistake. An unbelievably BIG MISTAKE. Now Squash is a can't-face-Maggie kind of cat, and Maggie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023