Leicht, Stina
Summary: When Ri, the AI she trained from inception, is trapped in the depths of Loki's Ring, an artificial alien-made solar system where everyone has been infected and killed by a mysterious contagion, Captain Gita Chithra must save Ri and her crew from the horrors they face at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIChern, Lina
Summary: "A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit. For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHEMina, Denise
Summary: When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINSeçkin, Mina
Summary: While self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine instead of dealing with her father's death, a Turkish-American woman delves into her family's history after discovering her devoted grandmother carriesa harrowing secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SECMina, Denise
Summary: Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMina, Denise.
Summary: "Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINWilliams, Tia
Summary: "Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WILWaheed, Mina
Summary: Contemporary romance where one homebody and one extrovert make one hell of a love story. June Bana might post nearly daily makeup looks that gain thousands of likes but Real Life June has built a wall behind which she exists with her two cats. But with messy feelings getting in a way of an early hermit life, June begins to realize that she wants more. She wants model/actress, Sunshine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAHFrench, Tana
Summary: "Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FREWilliams, Tia
Summary: "Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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Summary: Jenna Jones is broke and desperate for a second chance. When she's dumped by her longtime fiancé and fired from Darling magazine, she begs for a job at StyleZine.com from her old arch nemesis, Darcy Vale. But Jenny soon realizes she's in over her head. She's working with digital-savvy millennials half her age, has never even "Twittered," and pretends to still be a Fashion Somebody while living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brown Girls Books 2016
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Summary: It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC FREFrench, Tana
Summary: Its a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. Hes found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GINFrench, Tana
Summary: "It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRFemia, Gina
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FEMGeorge, Nina
Summary: "In a little town in the south of France in the 1960s, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of little Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes she can see the marks Love has left on the people around her--little glowing lights on the faces and hands that shimmer more brightly when the one meant for them is near. Before long, Marie-Jeanne is playing matchmaker,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Summary: "From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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Summary: Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APODinan, Nicola
Summary: It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DINWilkinson, Gina
Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILWilkinson, Gina
Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat'the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSimon, Nina
Summary: A murder next door in their coastal California town unites the estranged Rubicon women--Lana, her daughter Beth and granddaughter Jack--to protect their family and solve the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023