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Summary: "One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking--recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARIHahn, Sumi
Summary: "A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hahn 2020Abi-Ezzi, Nathalie
Summary: "In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABIEl Rashidi, Yasmine
Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRBradbury, Ray
Summary: Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRAStatovci, Pajtim
Summary: "Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells a love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAKeneally, Thomas
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENAnaya, Rudolfo A.
Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANALi, Yiyun
Summary: "A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRASchrefer, Eliot
Summary: They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the...
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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 SCHFlattery, Nicole
Summary: "New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol. Warhol is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 2023
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Summary: It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, enlisted in endless chores by her mother and sister, thieving, and running wild with her adored older brother, Anton. But then Russian prisoners escape from the local concentration camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULTheroux, Paul
Summary: "At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THEMcVeigh, Jennifer
Summary: "After six years exiled in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, only to find the home she has longed for in the grip of change. Her father's new companion--a strange, intolerant woman--has taken over the household, and the political climate in the country is growing more unsettled by the day. Looming over them all is the threat of the Mau Mau - a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCVMcCarthy, Cormac
Summary: In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of All the Pretty Horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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Summary: Billy and Boyd Parham are two boys living in New Mexico on the cusp of unimaginable events in the years before the Second World War. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild among cattle. Billy traps a she-wolf, intending to restore it to the mountains of New Mexico. But when he returns, he finds everything he left behind utterly transformed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMancillas, Mónica
Summary: After her mother's sudden departure, twelve-year-old Salva Sanchez adjusts to her new life in an RV campground with her father, and finds her voice through new friendships and a love for Celia Cruz, the "queen of salsa."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MANKemp, Laekan Zea
Summary: Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aarón and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEMObioma, Chigozie
Summary: "At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When Kunle's younger brother disappears as his country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission behind enemy lines. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SALSáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEBetancourt, Ingrid
Summary: "From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate. Set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world's most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BETCervantes, J. C. (Jennifer C.)
Summary: When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York City to the one place she can always call home--the enchanted Hacienda Estrada. The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance of charmed flowers cultivated by Harlow's mother, sisters, aunt, and cousins. By harnessing the magic in these flowers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023