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African Americans African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Armenian Americans Fiction Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 Fiction Armenians Fiction JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American Large type books Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships FictionVoskuni, Taleen
Summary: "An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and heartfelt queer rom-com by debut author Taleen Voskuni. When Nar's non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes it's time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Enter her mother: armed with plenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOSShafak, Elif
Summary: Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHABoyadjian, Maral
Summary: It is 1913 and late summer in the Ottoman Empire. The sun rises, full and golden, atop a lush, centuries-old village tucked into the highlands where the blood-red poppies bloom. Outside the village leader's home, the sound of voices carries past the grapevines to the lane where Anno, his youngest daughter, slips out unseen. She heads to a secret meeting place. She forgets that enemies surround...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salor Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYMartin, Pedro
Summary: "Pedro/Peter Martín es un Mexikid, o un niño que nació en Estados Unidos de padres mexicanos: un niño que no pertenece a ninguno de los dos lugares. Así que no sabe qué pensar cuando su padre anuncia que toda la familia (¡11 personas!) se apretará dentro del Winnebago para manejar 2,000 millas hasta México con una misión: traer a su misterioso abuelito de la era de la Revolución Mexicana a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SPANISH MAR (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Bohjalian, Chris
Summary: Presents the parallel stories of a young woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier while aiding victims of the Armenian genocide in the early twentieth century, and a young woman who researches her Armenian heritage and discovers a terrible family secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION BOHBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOHBohjalian, Chris
Summary: "Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bohjalian 2012Haddam, Jane
Summary: When a local Philadelphia radio host known for his incendiary right-wing tirades is arrested for illegal possession of prescription drugs, the incident sets into motion a series of events that leads ultimately to the death of a homeless man. In the complicated mix are the local Benedictine monastery, a Nobel Prize-winning leftist academic, and a homeless advocacy group, among others. Gregor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADHaddam, Jane
Summary: When a local Philadelphia radio host known for his incendiary right-wing tirades is arrested for illegal possession of prescription drugs, the incident sets into motion a series of events that leads ultimately to the death of a homeless man. In the complicated mix are the local Benedictine monastery, a Nobel Prize-winning leftist academic, and a homeless advocacy group, among others. Gregor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Kendi, Ibram X.
Summary: Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas LLC] 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG KENWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEAJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENSummary: A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VODBenedict, Marie
Summary: "The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 318 FIC BENBenedict, Marie
Summary: "In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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Summary: In what other place can a child "sail their dreams" and "surf the rainbow" without ever leaving the room? This ode to libraries is a celebration for everyone who loves stories, from seasoned readers to those just learning to love words, and it will have kids and parents alike imagining where their library can take them. This inspiring read-aloud includes stunning illustrations and a note from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction GrimesGiles, Lamar
Summary: Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GILGrimes, Nikki
Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRIJones, Tayari
Summary: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JONGarcia-Aguilera, Carolina.
Summary: A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban immigrants, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH GARButler-Ngugi, Anitra
Summary: "It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024