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Azuma, Kiyohiko Deb, Sopan Dimaline, Cherie Fraistat, Ann Steel, Danielle Warrell, LauraWarrell, Laura
Summary: "An ensemble-cast novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and the multiple women-some charmed by him, others scorned-who find the power of their own voices in this thrilling debut It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies man, lives for his music, and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARAzuma, Kiyohiko
Summary: "YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes-- PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!"--Publisher's web site
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YOTSteel, Danielle
Summary: Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMFraistat, Ann
Summary: The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRADeb, Sopan
Summary: "From a New York Times reporter and memoirist Sopan Deb comes a heartwarming and charmingly funny debut novel about a box in the attic that leads one Bengali-American family down a path toward rediscovering family love, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his 60s, he finds himself iced out of his traditional Bengali community after an uncouth divorce from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022