Anaya, 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 ANAWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WISWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WisemanBrown-Wood, JaNay
Summary: "Logan is organizing a pet playdate at his greenhouse for all of his friends, and his treats won't be the same without his carrots. He's searched and searched, but his greenhouse is filled with plenty of plants and Logan needs our help to identify them. What do we know about carrots? They're long, orange, and have bushy leaves at the top--and, wait a moment, is that a carrot? No, that's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRODrabble, Margaret
Summary: Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Drabble 2013Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)
Summary: While nursing a broken arm, almost twelve-year-old adoptee Coop, with the help of his grandfather and friend Zandi, unwaveringly cares for and protects Hop, a baby mockingbird born with one wing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOBrown, Rebecca L. (Rebecca Lynn)
Summary: "An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSumner, Jamie
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESFaulkner, William
Summary: First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUSparks, Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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Summary: The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTSparks, Nicholas.
Summary: Taylor McAden's devotion to his work as a volunteer fireman has left no room in his life for love, but when he becomes involved in the search for four-year-old Kyle who has disappeared following an automobile accident in which his mom, Denise, was injured, Taylor develops feelings for Denise that he cannot deny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2005
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Summary: "Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels embodied Australia's tumultuous 70s and 80s, and her incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. The Atlantic dubbed her "the Joan Didion of Australia." Now, The Children's Bach, the beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern international letters, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARSteel, Danielle
Summary: "Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely to her final days and then divorced. As a young woman driven by these painful memories, Zoe sets the bar high for herself, studying hard and pursuing a career in the nonprofit world, where her deep compassion for disadvantaged children finds a focus. When Zoe falls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "A kid walks into your bookstore and . . . Guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! It's a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction HigginsHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted--a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life--when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDFaulkner, William
Summary: The story of the tragic Caddy Compson, as seen through the eyes of her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINBestor-Siegal, Amanda
Summary: Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BESGerber, Alyson
Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed Braced comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework, but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head, but sometimes she can't help herself. Other kids are starting to notice. When Clea fails one too many tests, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction Gerber 2022Hamilton, Jane
Summary: When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006