Cornwall, Gaia
Summary: Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He's finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he's a great jumper, so he's not scared at all. 'Looks easy, ' says Jabari, watching the other kids take their turns. But when his dad squeezes his hand, Jabari squeezes back. He needs to figure out what kind of special jump to do anyway, and he should probably do some...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: After three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo visit Camp Half-Blood, they inherit a quest: to free Hera, a prisoner of Gaia. But who are the other four demigods mentioned in prophesy who will join them in their quest? The answer may lie in another camp miles away, where a new camper has shown up and appears to be the son of Neptune, god of the sea.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2011
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Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text urge the reader to go beyond the noise of the city to listen to a crow's caw, rain dripping onto a sidewalk, and whispered goodnights. Includes notes about listening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SNYParciak, Wendy.
Summary: These are the words of Marzita Zaferatos, a mentally-ill young woman who wanders into the lives of her neighbors on Locust Street, whether they want her to or not. On the street live a frail spinster, a career-driven couple and their toddler, a neurologist with a constricting shyness of women, a teenager who wishes her life could be as interesting as her daydreams, and Marzita's father, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARGarcia, Gabriela
Summary: "In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARPolt, Gabe
Summary: "Wanda is hosting this year's school harvest feast, but she is so busy promoting it, she forgets to get the food! Luckily, Ralphie happens to know of a farm that grows the finest produce around, but there's a problem: he thinks it's haunted! There are tractors driven by ghosts, plants that climb walls, and so many robots! Could the spooky discoveries actually be helping the farm?"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2018
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Summary: An unnamed visitor travels to wartime Berlin, where she learns about the city through the things she sees and the disparate people she meets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARDunn, Gaby
Summary: Ava and Gen, best friends, are heading off to their first semesters of college on opposite sides of the country. They stay in touch with texts and emails, documenting their weird roommates, self-discovery, coming out, and mental health. As each changes and grows into her new life, will their friendship survive the distance?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2017
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Summary: The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GarciaCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P MARColleen, Marcie
Summary: "Flying Blind. The bat-only punk rock band. Coming to the Grumpy Woods. The Super Happy Party Bears love rock 'n' roll! The other Grumpy Woods residents do not. To them, this "music" sounds like BOOM! BOOM! REEN-REEN-WAAAHHHHH! And the band's nighttime shows are keeping everyone awake! When the bears join the band and get groovin', the rest of the Grumpy Woods townscritters go undercover to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COLColleen, Marcie
Summary: The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLGarcia-Aguilera, Carolina.
Summary: A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban immigrants, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH GARWilliams-Garcia, Rita
Summary: There's Trina, a pretty, self-involved artist who's sure she's bringing beauty and color to the lives of everyone around her, regardless of what they really think. There's Leticia, who skates by on minimal effort; she's more interested in her cell phone, her nails, and gossip than school. And there's Dominique, an angry basketball player who's been benched for low grades. When Trina unknowingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILColleen, Marcie
Summary: The Super Happy Party Bears are super. They are really happy. And they love to have a party. These bears are happy all the time--but their neighbors in the Grumpy Woods are grumpy all the time. Mayor Quill, Opal Owl, and the others are cranky pants, and they never want to join the party. Can the Super Happy Party Bears win the day by throwing a party?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COLColleen, Marcie
Summary: A funny chapter book series filled with full-color illustrations and adorable animals! It's the most wonderful time of the year in the Grumpy Woods--the Great Hibernation! Mayor Quill, Humphrey Hedgehog, and the rest of the animals are looking forward to some much-needed rest, but the Super Happy Party Bears want to add more YAY to the holiday--by delivering homemade presents! When the critters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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Summary: Love at Four Points is based on love letters and political intrigue written in code in an old Don Quixote volume from 1844. The people who wrote them, Sofía and Federico, exchanged secret messages during The Thousand Day War (1899-1902), between the military prison and the city in Popayán, Colombia. This book is a work of fiction about the micro-history of that horrendous civil and military...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Juan M. Garcés 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC GARMillás García, Juan José
Summary: "Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMaxfield, Marcie
Summary: Not your typical story about an American abroad. Instead, Marcie Maxfield pulls back the curtain on the globe-trotting world of an expat wife to explore issues of marriage and compromise. Moving backward and forward--both in time and between cities and countries--Em's Awful Good Fortune is woven together thematically by bits and pieces of Em's life: love, loss and betrayal, sexual assault and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXGangi, Stephanie
Summary: Turning away from the loved ones she believes disappointed her before succumbing to breast cancer, Joanna DeAngelis becomes a ghost bent on revenge against her ex and is eventually forced to reevaluate her life choices and the qualities of a proper death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANGarcía Sáenz, Eva
Summary: "Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational Trilogy of the White City introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer. Young Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The murders are eerily similar to ones that rattled the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARIglesias, Gabino.
Summary: "A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the mother of chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father."--Back cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broken River Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGLNiederhoffer, Galt
Summary: "Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, a home they built and feathered, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass' two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Seattle--a new start for their new lives. Cass and Ryan have stable, successful careers, and they are happy. But trouble begins...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIEColleen, Marcie
Summary: The Super Happy Party Bears are super. They are really happy. And they love to have a party. These bears are happy all the time--but their neighbors in the Grumpy Woods are grumpy all the time. Mayor Quill, Opal Owl, and the others are cranky pants, and they never want to join the party. Can the Super Happy Party Bears win the day by throwing a party?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017