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Gallen, Michelle

Summary: "Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAL

Gaylord, Joshua A. (Joshua Alden)

Summary: "When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: as a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAY

Larkin, Allie

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Summary: "Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving inan unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021

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Allende, Isabel.

Summary: "Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of ValparaIso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate JoaquIn Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALL

Allen, Crystal

Summary: Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends -- and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event -- one he'd promised...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALL

Eskens, Allen

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Summary: After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ESK

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ESK

Allen, Charlene Y.

Summary: "From debut author Charlene Allen comes a captivating YA contemporary mystery and coming-of-age story, celebrating the power of friendship, first love, and exploring the criminal justice system from the lens of restorative justice. Perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, and Maureen Johnson. In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALL

Carr, Brian Allen

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents. Now his uncle has gone missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Oh, Ellen

Summary: A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OH

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

Summary: In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman 2020

Kamatani, Yuhki

Summary: "Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he is also terrified that he had been outed as gay. Just as he's contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2019

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