Alrawi, Karim
Summary: "Award-winning writer and master storyteller Karim Alrawi draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture in creating these enchanting tales that are a feast for young imaginations. These stories take readers of every age on a delightful literary, cultural and culinary odyssey. A profusion of unforgettable characters--fishermen and date merchants, child cooks and squabbling animals, beggars and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALRKaraim, Reed
Summary: "A young man, Eric, drops out of college and lucks into a job with a small-town newspaper where he meets Anna - a woman whose story will both haunt and inspire him for the rest of his life. Set in a remote North Dakota community in the last days before the Internet, The Winter in Anna unfolds around a romance that almost was, and a meditation on what constitutes a life well lived. In wistful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARFaris, Stephanie
Summary: A visit to a haunted zoo for her father's ghost hunting podcasts leads Gabby to uncover discrepancies in its history, but sharing her findings on the podcast may have serious consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Levin Crowdley stumbles upon evidence that suggests her adoring fiance is behind the murder of her childhood best friend, she knows fleeing from him is the only way to stay alive. But Alec won't be left that easily. In fact, nobody has ever left him and lived to tell. The moment Alec finds their dream home empty and Levin's engagement ring lying in the crib he'd purchased for the baby he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONSehgal, Kabir
Summary: Siblings Chintoo and Mintoo collect flowers and press the petals into a fine powder as they prepare for Holi, the Indian springtime Festival of Colors. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SEHWeisenberg, Marit
Summary: Poppy doesn't know why her family has been running her whole life, but she does know that there are dire consequences if they're ever caught. Still, her curiosity grows each year, as does her desire for real friends and the chance to build on something, instead of leaving behind school projects, teams, and crushes at a moment's notice. When a move to California exposes a crack in her parents'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEIMontgomery, Marin
Summary: "Alastair has found the perfect partner in husband, Steven. Together they've built a successful life, had a beautiful child, and still behave like newlyweds long since the day he carried her over the threshold. But all of that changes in an instant thanks to a thoughtless deed that has lifelong repercussions. With secrets bubbling to the surface, the pair find their American dream life suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONWest, Kasie
Summary: After being betrayed by her best friend, even Avery's playlists can't help her forget what happened. Now her parents have dragged her and her sister Lauren to a remote family camp for the entire summer. And the worst part: there's no internet. Brooks is a cute but off-limits staff member, and Lauren is always in Avery's face. As the outside world falls away. Brooks offer Avery the chance of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESFossum, Karin
Summary: Ragna Riegel likes to sit on the same seat on the bus every day and she likes to buy the same things at the local shop each day. She must have order in her life. And she does, until one day she receives a letter with a threat written in block capitals on the sheet inside. Facing an unknown enemy, she must use all her means to defend herself. When the worst happens, Inspector Konrad Sejer thinks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fossum 2019Clark, Karla (Karla Jean)
Summary: In this collection of rhyming stories, children conquer their fears and find inner strength during a nighttime thunderstorm, the first day of school, and a doctor's visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLAMontgomery, Marin
Summary: What does the tragic death of a twenty-seven-year-old Portland beauty have to do with a suburban mother in Houston? Everything. Only Meghan Bishop doesn't know it yet. When the married mother stumbles upon evidence suggesting someone close to her may have ties to the heinous crime the nation can't stop talking about, she's forced to dive headfirst into an ocean of secrets she never knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONFossum, Karin
Summary: "A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway's finest crime writer Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSOzaki, Kaori
Summary: "Tsugu and Sora ran away from home, Yuushin took on the challenging professional boxer test, and Asari broke off ties with the girls in her class...Nothing is turning out the way they'd hoped. Even in the face of such painful headwinds, they continue their restless adolescent journey..."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GOLWest, Kasie
Summary: "At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she is--a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don't agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood's latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn't amused. Instead, she's determined to make sure he doesn't bother her again. Only she's not sure exactly who he is. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESNelson, Kadir
Summary: While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NELNelson, Kadir
Summary: If you plant a carrot seed, carrots will grow, but what happens when you plant a seed of selfishness? Or kindness? While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2020
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Summary: When Kate Bailey lets her best friend, Alana, talk her into joining their high school's podcast she did not expect to find herself as the host, or to enjoy answering calls and giving advice on the air, but she is actually pretty good at it--but when she gets an anonymous call from a boy (possibly Diego Martinez) about his secret feelings for a girl (probably Alana) she is faced with a problem,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION WESSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father--Pikeville's notorious defense attorney--devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SLASlaughter, Karin
Summary: "The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all. ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY SLASlaughter, Karin
Summary: Estranged for years after the disappearance of their sister, trophy wife Claire and struggling single mom Lydia are reunited by the murder of Claire's husband and investigate decades of family secrets to discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SLASlaughter, Karin
Summary: GBI investigator Will Trent needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SLATanabe, Karin
Summary: "A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but. It's 1954, and the post-war American dream has become a nightmare. A born and bred New Yorker, Katharina is the daughter of immigrants, Ivy-League-educated, and speaks four languages. As a single girl in 1940s Manhattan, she is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TANTanabe, Karin
Summary: "From "a master of historical fiction" (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman's journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing rooms of Manhattan society, to the secretive ranks of the FBI. A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021