Thanki, Asha
Summary: "A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry through which they inherit the experiences of those that lived before them, sweeping readers from Partition-era India to modern day Brooklyn. Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she's long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROLemmie, Asha
Summary: When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBandele, Asha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Summary: While visiting her father who lives in Jamaica, eighteen-year-old Tilla faces a storm of dark secrets that threaten to unravel her own life, while an actual storm, Hurricane Gustav, threatens the lives of those she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lemmie 2020Summary: It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INDChen, Shan Shan
Summary: On her sixth birthday, Mei Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEJalaluddin, Uzma
Summary: "Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JALMercurio, Ishta
Summary: First, Nanda's entire world is the circle of her mother's arms but as she grows, she sees the wonder of whirligigs, fractals in the snow, and even the circle of the Earth, itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: "The Fitzgerald-Trouts are four barely related siblings living together in a small car on a lush tropical island, but when they begin to outgrow their small vehicle, they must band together to find a new home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: A variety of children tell the many different things they love to do with their fathers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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Summary: For nearly 70 years, the eternal love triangle has been the bane of Archie's existence - and of fans who have wondered, 'Who will Archie choose, Betty or Veronica?' This year, the fans received an answer, not once, but twice! First came the announcement that Archie would marry Veronica, and the reaction was deafening! While some fans rejoiced, others were stunned. But just as it seemed Archie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comics 2010
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Brusha, Joe.
Summary: Sela Mather's epic journey through the realm of Myst reaches its pinnacle as she struggles to find her way back home to Earth and find her kidnapped daughter. Now that she has left Limbo, Sela must use her power as a guardian to right wrongs and fight to take back Myst from the hands of evil. However, nothing is as easy as it seems as Sela finds herself against not just one foe but an entire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zenescope Entertainment 2012
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Shan, Darren.
Summary: "Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets The Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWGraves, Ashna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poinsoned Pen Press 2007
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Summary: "Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a crew of misfit aliens and a mysterious ship that seems to have a soul and a universe of its own. Together they will show him that the universe is much bigger, much more advanced, and much more mysterious than Caiden had ever imagined. But the universe hides dangers as well, and soon Caiden has his own plans. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2020
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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: Saturdays are dress-up days when Eleanor Sue climbs out the window ... tiptoes over to the front door ... and rings the doorbell. When her mother answers, she doesn't see Eleanor Sue. She sees a cranky old neighbor. Or a hungry witch. Or a white-bearded wizard. Eleanor Sue is a master of disguise, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD JE Fiction Tusa 2019Urza, Gabriel.
Summary: "It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain's northern Basque Country, a place with more secrets than inhabitants. Five years have passed since the kidnapping and murder of a young local politician--a family man and father--and the town's rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, an act of terrorism that rocked a nation and a world, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URZBeha, Eileen.
Summary: Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEHBrusha, Joe
Summary: While the world is reeling from the events of Unleashed, Sela and the newly resurrected Belinda have made it their mission to help people in need. This leads them to Kiera, a beautiful Highborn with a fiery secret who has been living among humans for centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zenescope Entertainment 2013