Okogwu, Tola
Summary: When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OKOGrey, Iona
Summary: "An unforgettable historical about true love found and lost and the secrets we keep from one another from an award-winning author Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal, all while running from the life her parents would choose for her. Lawrence Weston is a penniless painter who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBabalola, Bolu
Summary: Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of "situationships", players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABColl, Susan
Summary: Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she fantasizes about going into hiding in the secret back room of her store. Meanwhile, renowned poet Raymond Chaucer has published a new collection, and rumors that he's to blame for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLCosta, Dela
Summary: When Isla sets out to help her pastry champion grandparents in the annual Sol Bake-Off, the absence of ingredients and the animal's silence leads her to uncover the creatures' own celebration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COSDoll, Jen
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Millicent M. Chalmers is depending on a series of debating victories, culminating in winning Alabama's state debate tournament, to secure a college scholarship. Her singular focus is disrupted after a run-in with Taggart Strong, who seems equally dedicated to losing every debate as long as he says what he really believes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOLSummary: Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty and freedom on Juneteenth, a great day in American history, the day her ancestors were no longer slaves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JUNTóibín, Colm
Summary: Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Malia, Dot, and Bree get a much older--and scarier--client than they expected, but looks can be deceiving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: "Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TOIReef, Cora
Summary: After his friends tell him about the mysterious Kelp Monster, Simon decides to go into the kelp forest and catch the so-called monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: Book smart teen Lola's summer plans are derailed when she is sent to live with her grandmother in Mexico City and learns a family secret that changes her life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CERDolan, Lian
Summary: After twenty-three years of building careers and raising kids together, Jason and Nicole Elswick are ready for a break from their daily lives. Jason has spent years planning his dream sabbatical—ditching work for a nine-month-long motorcycle trip through South America. Problem is, that’s Jason’s dream, not Nicole’s. After years working retail and parenting in Portland, Nicole craves the sun of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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Summary: Accompanying her father to an Arctic outpost on Bear Island, where she is informed no polar bears remain, April spots a hungry and lonely polar bear that she resolves to help return home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GOLBerman, Ella
Summary: "A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman. . . . Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline's death. But that didn't stop the media from ripping apart their teenage lives like vultures. While the girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERHolt, Kimberly Willis
Summary: After an accident, seventh graders Joya Mia, and Kiki help their best friend Greer cope by signing up for a triathlon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: After finally getting a cell phone, Babymouse tries to increase her popularity in middle school by becoming the queen of social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Baby Holm 2018Cole, Kamilah
Summary: After her sister Elara forms an unbreakable bond with an enemy dragon, seventeen-year-old Faron, who once wielded the magic of the gods to save her island from those same dragon-riding colonizers, must find a way to save her sister and the fate of their world in the face of impossible odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLCole, Alyssa
Summary: "Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECole, Courtney
Summary: "Reminiscent of the beloved novels by Mary Kubica and Jodi Picoult comes a chilling portrayal of a son's addiction and its harrowing effects on both him and his mother from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole. There comes a time when offering your life for your child's doesn't work, when you realize that it'll never be enough. The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCole, Teju
Summary: "A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001