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Summary: "An utterly compelling, heartbreaking novel that introduces a revelatory young voice to the U.S. market. Meet Luca, a curious young boy living with his mother, a taciturn woman who "every now and then tries out a new father." Luca keeps to himself, his cat, Blue, and his words--his favorite toys. One February morning his mom doesn't wake up to bring him to school, so Luca--with a father who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mander 2014Langer, Adam
Summary: Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. Declan, an experienced senior, is confident he'll get his first-choice role, but when the capricious, charismatic drama director casts Franklin, an unknown underclassman-and the two are seen alone at the director's house-a series of events that will haunt the cast for years begins to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANLeavitt, Martine
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and who would have a girl like her -- a girl filled with ideas and opinions? Someone gallant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEAEnger, Leif.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2002
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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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Summary: "A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson's Red at The Bone, Netflix's Atypical, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Victor Chin's life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHIAngel-Ajani, Asale
Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGMarion, Stephen
Summary: After being away for fourteen years, Gary Solomon returns to his hometown and finds his estranged father is terminally ill, meets his son for the first time, and tries to reconcile with the boy's mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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Summary: Cooper O'Connor was a long way from home; both geographically and from the damage he caused. Now that he's back, is healing possible? At the age of eighteen, singer/songwriter Cooper O'Connor thumbed his nose at his dad, stole most everything he held dear, and made his way to Nashville, where he promptly lost everything. After five difficult years, he fell in love with Daley Cross, an angelic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2016
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Summary: "No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000
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Summary: A radical retelling of the story of the prodigal son takes the reader from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARRowling, J. K.
Summary: As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort society, The Order of the Phoenix, begins meeting again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: "Ava Gallanter is the librarian in residence at the Lazarus Club, an ancient, dwindling Manhattan arts club full of eccentric geriatric residents stuck in a long-gone era. Twenty-five-year-old Ava, however, feels right at home. She leads a quiet life, surrounded by her beloved books and sequestered away from her peers. When Ava's enigmatic friend Stephanie returns after an unplanned year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2018
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: "In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California, where they can start...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TOWByatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)
Summary: When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009