Kawakami, Mieko
Summary: Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. These raw and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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Summary: "Losing hit points is a nerdy queer romance book set against the backdrop of a tabletop Dungeons and Dragons game. A romantic story filled with goblins, adventure, and the healing power of admitting our mistakes. Equal parts touching and laugh-out-loud funny, trans teen Journey has the chance to play an epic game of Dungeons and Dragons. Surprise encounters are common in D&D but what they don’t...
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2024
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Summary: Unlike her friend Teddy, sixteen-year-old Tilly is not looking for a girlfriend, but when Teddy forms a crush on Katherine Cooper-Bunting, his co-star in their community theater production, Tilly finds herself also swooning over her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRUGibbs, Amiee
Summary: "In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius' Carnivale of Curiosities. Each performance is a limited engagement, and London's elite boldly dare the dangerous streets of Southwark to witness the Carnivale's astounding assemblage of marvels. For a select few, however, the real show begins behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GCP 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBLiese, Chloe
Summary: "There's much ado about everything when two adversaries become allies and fake a relationship to fool their meddling friends in this swoony, inclusive reimagining of the Bard's beloved play Much Ado About Nothing. Jamie and Bea have nothing in common except a meet-disaster and the mutual understanding that they couldn't be more wrong for each other. But when the people closest to them play...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LIEMeinke, Rachel
Summary: "These days, everything in Katelyn's life revolves around her pop star brother. And when the entire family decides to join Connor's tour, Katelyn has to kiss her soccer team, her friends--and her entire summer--goodbye. The only good news is the opening act is her favorite band with the hottest lead singer ever, Zach Matthews. Some serious chemistry develops between Katelyn and Zach. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wattpad Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEICandon, Emma Mieko
Summary: "War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction. When an AI dies, its city dies with it. When a city falls, it leaves a corpse behind. When that corpse runs off, only devotion can bring it back. When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: This thrilling original novel is inspired by the upcoming Star Wars Visions animated anthology series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANMele, Dana
Summary: When five estranged friends return to a summer lake house on the anniversary of their friend's death, unexplainable events begin happening, old betrayals rise to the surface, and the group suspects a killer among them is intent on revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: "A chance encounter throws Ash and Splinter into each other's orbits, and they find friendship in their shared loneliness and their desires to prove themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAMoulton, Deke
Summary: Benji Zeb has a lot going on. He has a lot of studying to do, not only for school but also for his upcoming bar mitzvah. He's nervous about Mr. Rutherford, the aggressive local rancher who hates Benji's family's kibbutz and wolf sanctuary. And he hasn't figured out what to do about Caleb, Mr. Rutherford's adopted son, who has been bullying Benji pretty hard at school, despite Benji wanting to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOUMoke, Jenny Elder
Summary: The story has reached it's happily ever after, the peasant girl has married her prince and become queen, all is well in the kingdom. . . But for Aralyn, the princesses stepsister, the story is only just beginning. The kingdom of Novador has had a streak of misfortunes, with drought, famine, and disease plaguing the lands. According to a prophecy, restoring an ancient magical artifact-- the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOKRijneveld, Marieke Lucas
Summary: "A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'—the farmer’s daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIJHerron, Mick
Summary: "Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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Summary: Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica. Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world's richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUPLupica, Mike
Summary: Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation. Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Summary: "When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: To neutralize a nuclear torpedo, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must risk their lives to untangle drug-smuggling routes and international conspiracies from the Aegean Sea to the Indian Ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "When African jihadis attack a Nigerian regiment using American weapons, Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are on the case, investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer--a genius, or perhaps a devil--known only as the Vendor. Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor's base, but his adversary isn't just an arms smuggler. He's an arms maker, and Cabrillo just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMaden, Mike
Summary: "Twenty years ago, Dr. Kathy Ryan restored the eyesight of a young Bosnian girl who had been injured during an attack in the Balkan War. Today, her son, Jack Ryan Jr. has decided to surprise his mother by tracking down the young lady. What he finds shocks them both. The helpless child has grown into a remarkable woman. Aida Curic is a self-possessed beauty who runs a refugee agency that helps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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Summary: The Clone Wars have begun, and battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. The peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers. After an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia, the Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi. He investigates with the help of a Neimoidian guard-- and senses the sinister hand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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Summary: "Life is waiting to happen to Hubert Bird. But first he has to open his front door and let it in. In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfilment. But he's lying. The truth is day after day drags by without him seeing a single soul. Until he receives some good news - good news that in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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Summary: "When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to spark a new war in the Middle East, and ultimately destroy Israel. Cabrillo's crew of the Oregon have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023