Harrison, Jim
Summary: In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KINDjanikian, Ariel
Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DJAThomas, Leah
Summary: When the Vasquez siblings' father left, there was an absence in their lives-- until a shimmering figure named Luz appeared in the canyon behind their house. He shot hoops with Hank's hands. He showed Ana cinematic beauty behind her eyelids. He spoke kindly to Milo. But when Luz left, he took something from each of them. As a new school year begins, Hank, Ana, and Milo question how can they ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC THOYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURHale, Jenny
Summary: For Sydney Flynn, Starlight Cottage is her sanctuary. And now, her treasured family home at Firefly Beach is the perfect place for her fresh start. That is, until she spies Nate Henderson. As teenagers, Sydney and Nate promised each other forever. But Sydney has never forgotten how her childhood sweetheart ended their relationship with no explanation. She's spent the last decade piecing herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALEverson, Eva Marie
Summary: "Can an ordinary life leave an extraordinary legacy? In 1977, when nineteen-year-old Allison Middleton receives a proposal of marriage from Westley Houser, she eagerly accepts, having no idea the secret Westley carries--a secret that will change Allison's life forever. But Allison rises to the challenge of raising Westley's toddling daughter as though she were her own. Over the course of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Southern Fiction, an imprint of Lighthouse Publishers of the Carolinas 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVELim, Rebecca
Summary: "Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIMJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: Poor yet resilient, the boy lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. Always on the move across the South, living a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes, one step ahead of the law. But everything is about to change. The boy will be turning sixteen, and he will need to understand his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONRoberts, Nora.
Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House 2017
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Summary: Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMFrank, Victoria Benton
Summary: In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: South Africa, 1994. Against a backdrop of apartheid and racial violence, Yolanda Petersen returns to the land of her youth at the behest of her mother. While there Yolanda longs to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Ingrid, the product of an illegal mixed-race affair with a white man. But Ingrid is missing, and as Yolanda quickly discovers, she isn't the only woman in Cape Town desperate to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little a 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANCaletti, Deb.
Summary: Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CALEkwuyasi, Francesca
Summary: "Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EKWTran, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Summary: "In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi, and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TRANelson, Colleen
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Delilah "Dizzy" Doucette lives with her dad and brother above their vintage record store, the Vinyl Trap. She's learning how to spin records from her brother's best friend, and she's getting pretty good. But behind her bohemian life, Dizzy and her family have a secret: her mom is the mega-famous singer Georgia Waters. When this secret is revealed to the world, Dizzy's life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NELCoulter, Catherine
Summary: A young wife is forced to confront a decades-old deadly secret when a medium connects her to her dead grandfather. A vicious psychopath wants ultimate revenge against Savich, but first, she wants to destroy what he loves most, his family. A series of three red boxes are delivered personally to Savich at the Hoover Building, each one containing puzzle pieces of a town only FBI agent Pippa...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COUKelly, Julia
Summary: "Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKrivak, Andrew
Summary: Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century. After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRICooper, Desiree
Summary: "Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2022
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE COOJames, Simon
Summary: "When Stanley's Mom has to go away for work, Stanley decides to take off, too--all the way to Mars. Can the Martian who takes his place on Earth get by in Stanley's family even in Mom's absence?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018