Summary: The summer after Ana's high school graduation is a turning point in her life. She has to decide whether to go to college and experience life, or stay home, get married and work at her sister's struggling garment factory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REALim, 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 LIMGrimsley, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRILynch, Jim
Summary: A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYNFergus, Jim.
Summary: Heading west to join the search for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Ned Giles meets a troubled Apache girl, imprisoned in a Mexican jail, whose fate forces him to make a choice that will change his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERGordon, Gia
Summary: "The end of Daya Keane's junior year in Escondido, Arizona, is anything but expected. And it starts when her longtime swoon-worthy crush, Beckett Wild, actually talks to her at a party neither of them should've been at. But as Daya's best friends, Stella and B'Rad, are quick to point out, smart, cute, artistic Beckett is also the poster girl for the wildly popular youth group at Grace Redeemer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2024
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Summary: In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother--but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMThúy, Kim
Summary: At ten years old, Kim Thy fled Vietnam on a boat with her family, leaving behind a grand house and the many less tangible riches of their home country: the ponds of lotus blossoms, the songs of soup-vendors. The family arrived in Quebec, where they found clothes at the flea market, and mattresses with actual fleas. Kim learned French and English, and as she grew older, seized what opportunities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUBoyer, Susan Azim
Summary: Samira Murphy is caring for her widowed grandmother, and trying to get her older brother into recovery for alcohol addiction. With attendance at her dream college on the line, she takes a long shot DNA test to find the support she so desperately needs from a father she hasn't seen since she was a baby. Henry Owen is torn between his unreliable bio-mom and an overly strick aunt and uncle who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOYOstertag, Molly
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends ... who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OSTKim, Crystal Hana
Summary: "A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center-a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIMKeltner, Kim Wong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Trade 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKim, Eugenia (Eugenia SunHee)
Summary: "From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMMcVeigh, Dave
Summary: "He's got a bike, a basket ... and a whole lotta baggage. It's the summer of 1989. Jack McGuinn is a dockporter, hauling tourists' luggage piled high in the oversized basket of his bike on Mackinac Island, Michigan, a summer resort where cars are outlawed. He's got a family cottage on the hill, his dream job, and a loyal crew of hell-raising, tip-hustling buddies. When his bitter rival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCVCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McVeighRowling, J. K.
Summary: It all comes down to this--a final face-off between good and evil. You plan to pull out all the stops, but every time you solve one mystery, three more evolve. Do you stay the course you started, despite your lack of progress? Do you detour and follow a new lead that may not help? Do you listen to your instincts, or your friends? Lord Voldemort is preparing for battle and so must Harry. With...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020