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Stuart, Douglas

Summary: "Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Shin, Kyung-sook

Summary: "Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHI

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: Look out for Little Women-soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Streep! Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of Jo March and her former students concludes with this beautiful keepsake edition of Jo's Boys, the final novel in the Little Women Collection! Ten years after Jo opened a school for boys, the little men have grown up and left...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019

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Wang, Andrea

Summary: "A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WAN

Summary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOW

Graham, Winston

Summary: "Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's brother, the enduring rivalry between George and Ross finds a new focus for bitter enmity and conflict."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pan 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Willms, Russ

Summary: Auditioning animals to pull his sleigh for his first Christmas, Santa is dismayed to discover that no one seems quite right for the job, in this hilarious, behind-the-scenes story about Santa's reindeer crew.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE WIL

Hoover, Colleen

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope. One young man brings change to all of this. After moving across the country, Layken meets her attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor who has an intriguing passion for slams....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Feehan, Christine

Summary: Flame-haired Lissa Piner is a skilled glassblower whose delicate gift conceals a burning inner strength that can destroy as exquisitely as it can create. Commissioned to design chandeliers for a string of luxury hotels, her remarkable skills have taken her to Italy. But Lissa's real mission there is a secret. For her entire life has been a lie, leading to a chance to avenge a terrible wrong....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEE

Fergus, Maureen

Summary: Santa Claus stops believing that Harold, a small child, exists, and comes up with a plan to find out once and for all if Harold is real.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FER

Gerber, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction Gerber 2022

Feinberg, Leslie

Summary: Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEI

Roberts, Nora.

Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Mills, Magnus.

Summary: When sloth and alcohol lead to a horribly botched job, two fence builders named Tam and Richie flee their native Scotland to England, where all hell quickly breaks loose.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Ng, Celeste

Summary: In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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Long, Ethan

Summary: The monsters of the Fright Club have gathered for a Thanksgiving feast at Vlad's home, but his family arrives unexpectedly and puts their own spin on every dish.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LON

Summary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIT

Goldie, Luan

Summary: "On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years. Tristan wishes Malachi...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOL

Parr, Todd

Summary: "Algunas familias son grandes. Algunas familias adoptan hijos. ¡Abre este libro para leer sobre todo tipo de familia!"--Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, uan divsión de Little Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRD

Abnett, Dan.

Summary: The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain. Tensions are mounting, old rivalries are coming to the fore, people are dying - And then the Doctor's old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Or does it?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABN

Lynch, Chris

Summary: A dog walking venture helps thirteen-year-old Louis, who would rather kick back than stand out, learn how to be a friend.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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Vande Zande, Jeff.

Summary: Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. This novel unites...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bottom Dog Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Lovegreen, Kevin

Summary: "It's a pheasant frenzy! Join Lucky Luke and his sister, Crystal, for an amazing weekend hunting pheasants with family and friends in South Dakota. The boys and girls are fired up, the fields are loaded with birds, and the dogs are ready for action. So come along and enjoy this adventure!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucky Luke LLC. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LOV

Hoffman, Dustin M.

Summary: "Set in the Midwest, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist tells the stories of everyday, blue-collar workers with dark humor and a gritty, experimental style, revealing the absurdity of the daily grind and its crushing reality" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

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