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Summary: Follows the intertwining lives of five teens whose world is changed forever after the events at a party. Adopted Black girl Frankie struggles to see eye-to-eye with her white mother--who would rather ignore a problem and preserve their "perfect" life than stand up for what's right. Jo just wants her religious mom to accept her queer identity--and is totally crushed when her girlfriend Frankie,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMILandis, Matthew
Summary: "Ten-year-old twins Ike and Iris race to find the thief stealing valuable historical artifacts before their family is framed for the crimes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2024
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Summary: Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Angel-Ajani, Asale
Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGSchaitkin, Alexis
Summary: "Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022
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Summary: "In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and We Must Be Brave, a heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother's impossible choice, and her search for her daughter against the odds"-- "As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. Ordered to report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANSoloski, Alexis
Summary: "A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance. Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M SOLHenderson, Alexis
Summary: "WANTED: Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2022
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Summary: "From the author of the WWII novel Those Who Are Saved ("sweeping and lyrical"-People), comes an electrifying page-turner about female rage, grief, and creativity, as a contemporary mother immerses herself in ancient Greco-Roman female mystery rites while on a summer journey with her family. Ava, an adjunct art-history professor whose research and writing have been stymied by her life as a wife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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Summary: "Ever since her year as a scholarship student among the ultra-wealthy at a Manhattan private school, El knows what it is like to feel rich--to feel chosen. And being not chosen is her current living nightmare: at age thirty, she has given up her dream of becoming a famous actress, she has no passions, no great love, nothing to look forward to. Then El meets a mysterious trust-fund Cambridge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: "A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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Summary: "Laurence Dalziel is worn down and washed up, and for him, the Scene is all played out. Six years from his last relationship, he's pushing forty and tired of going through the motions of submission. Then he meets Toby Finch. Young. Fearless, fierce, and vulnerable. Everything Laurie can't remember being. Toby doesn't know who he wants to be or what he wants to do. But he knows, with all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Reluctantly agreeing to help her former flame, Arabella Tarleton woo the famous and flamboyant opera singer Orfeo, Peggy Delancey unexpectedly finds common ground with this celebrated soprano--and an instant connection as they walk the line between friendship, flirtation and something more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHall, Alexis J.
Summary: "FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHall, Alexis J.
Summary: Wanted: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best. In Boyfriend Material, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends... and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHall, Alexis J.
Summary: "When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALGratz, Alan
Summary: December 7th, 1941: Everything explodes. That morning, Frank and Stanley are aboard the battleship the USS Utah when Japanese planes zoom overhead and begin dropping bombs on the ships below. Chaos ensues as everyone scrambles to dive for safety. Frank and Stanley realize what's happening: Japan is attacking America! The war has come to them. As the boys fight to make their way home amidst the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Living alone in an old house, Joseph Coppock, an introspective young boy, develops a mysterious friendship with a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker who introduces him to a world beyond his wildest imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: "December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: American librarian Maria Alves, a microfilm specialist trained in espionage, is dispatched to Lisbon to gather vital information from Axis publications, and works in tandem with Tiago Soares, a bookstore owner secretly providing forged passports and visas to Jewish refugees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Summary: "A poignant debut novel about the lives of women, set in a claustrophobic coast town. How can they find independence in a society that seeks to limit it?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024