Blackburne, Livia
Summary: "Mulan goes from a celebrated war hero to a reluctant Empress and must once again rise above expectations and prove she doesn't have to be anyone but herself to save China"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLABlackburry, Sabrina
Summary: When Thea Kanelos's best friend drags her to an art gala (that's definitely not her thing), she doesn't expect a chance encounter with Devin Grayson to change her life forever. The handsome stranger isn't just anyone--he's a powerful fae, charged with bringing Thea into his world. Believing that she's always been human, Thea must accept that everything she's known about herself up until now has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W by Wattpad Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlackburn, Lizzie Damilola
Summary: "Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her girlfriends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her sister thinks she needs to get over her ex already, and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlackburn, Lynn Huggins
Summary: "After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present. She reaches out to her high...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BLAVestita, Marisa
Summary: It’s a big day for little Terri: she’s supposed to spread her wings and fly. But Terri’s scared of heights. “I DON’T WANT TO FLY!” she cries. But with her friends gathered round her, all opening their arms as wide as they can, will Terri feel ready to take the leap . . . and soar?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD VESVestita, Marisa
Summary: Scary roars are echoing through the forest—and they’re coming from Rex! The poor thing has a stick stuck in his teeth, and it really hurts. Fortunately, Terri pulls it out with her long beak. But his friends also have an important message: if Rex wants strong teeth like his dad, he has to brush really well. What good advice for a little dinosaur!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD VERVestita, Marisa
Summary: When Trixie suddenly yells “HELP!,” all her dinosaur friends wonder what’s going on. Has she hurt herself? No—she’s just scared of a tiny ladybug. Can her friends convince her to face her fears, stop running away, and play with the friendly bug? Soon Trixie learns that you don’t always have to be afraid of something new.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD VESDavis, Tanita S.
Summary: "Rylee Swanson is beginning eighth grade with zero friends. A humiliating moment at the end-of-seventh-grade pool party involving a cannonball, a waterlogged updo, and some disappearing clothes has Rylee halfway convinced she's better off without any friends--at least friends like those. The one question Rylee can't shake is . . . why? When a group assignment in journalism pairs Rylee with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, and imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAVDavis, Tanita S.
Summary: Henri has attended a special school for her learning disability, dyscalculia, but when she is mainstreamed, she finds herself struggling to balance other parts of her life, and not just in math class--a family feud, drama on the soccer team, and a passion for poetry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAVMurrow, Vita
Summary: What if princesses didn't always marry Prince Charming and live happily every after? This stunning anthology features 15 favorite fairytales retold for a new generation. From Sleeping Beauty who becomes a world-famous sleep disorder specialist to Cinderella who goes on to become Prime Minister to Little Red Riding Hood, the environmentalist and Princess of the Wolves, these princesses are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC MURProse, Nita
Summary: "Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PROProse, Nita
Summary: "A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROCopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Prose 2022Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PROProse, Nita
Summary: "A dead body is one mess she can't clean up on her own. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and often misreads people's intentions. But no matter--she still throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid at the five-star Regency Grand. Her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette makes her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballatine Books 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC PRO (PENINSULA BOOK CLUB KIT 8 Paperbacks)Abriel, Anita
Summary: "Paris 1943, Lana Antanov is on her way to see her husband, Frederic with news that she is pregnant. As she arrives at the convent where Frederic teaches piano, she watches in horror as Gestapo officers execute Frederic for hiding a Jewish girl in the piano. Lana is overcome with grief. That evening, she loses the baby. A few months later, Lana is approached by a member of the resistance to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ABRBijsterbosch, Anita
Summary: "Bunny loves her potty. She likes to sit on it all the time. But one day Bunny can't find her potty. And Bunny really needs to potty. What will she do now?"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Abriel, Anita
Summary: "It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Abriel 2019Brookner, Anita.
Summary: Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1984
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kopacz, Anita
Summary: Cast into mid-1800s America, Yemaya, a deity in the religion of Africa's Yoruba people, as she grows into her powers, must confront the greatest evils of this era while searching for the man who sacrificed his own freedom for the chance at hers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing, Atria 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOPSheih, Anita
Summary: Peppa Pig shows all the different ways that she loves her friends and everything in the world around her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Shreve, Anita
Summary: "In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Shreve 2017Maljartschuk, Tanja
Summary: A Biography of a Chance Miracle explores the life of Lena, a young girl growing up in the somewhat vapid, bureaucracy-ridden and nationalistic Western Ukrainian city of San Francisco. Lena is a misfit from early childhood due to her unwillingness to scorn everything Russian, her propensity for befriending forlorn creatures, her aversion to the status quo, and her fear of living a stupid and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cadmus Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALJúnior, Otávio
Summary: "A boy describes the building, people, weather, games, and activities he can observe from his window in a favela, a neighborhood in Rio de Janiero. Includes notes about favelas and the author's experiences growing up in one." --
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG JUNBab Bonde, Jessica
Summary: "The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BABSolis, Nicholas
Summary: "When a boy notices the new girl collecting litter on their walks home, he wants to know why. She shows him the mural she's created that reminds her of the home she left behind. They both find how wonderful it is to make a new friend."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021