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Fiction Fiction. Historical fiction. Juvenile works novel Novels Novels. novels. Psychological fiction. Romans.Orange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORACercas, Javier
Summary: "A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marain is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misaerables. Then his mother was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CERVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: "The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASTyler, Anne
Summary: Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLMcLean, Felicity
Summary: Tikka Malloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long, hot, Australian summer of 1992. The TV news in the background chattered with debate about the exoneration of Lindy ("dingo took my baby") Chamberlain. That summer was when the Van Apfel sisters--Ruth, Hannah, and the beautiful Cordelia--mysteriously disappeared. Did they just run far away from their harsh, evangelical parents, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCLMacLeod, Alison
Summary: Recreates the origins of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from its private publication by Lawrence through the 1960 obscenity trial that sought to suppress the full, uncensored edition, reimagining its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACHalperin, Hanna
Summary: "By the author of Something Wild, a gripping portrait of a tumultuous, consuming relationship between a young woman and a recovering addict When Leah Kempler meets Charlie Nelson in line at the grocery store, their connection is immediate and intense. Charlie, with his big feelings and grand proclamations of love, captivates her completely. But there are peculiarities of his life-he's older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALKim, Hanna
Summary: Ben and his best friend are in tae kwon do camp, but Ben's lack of confidence makes his awkward and embarrassed--until Mr. Wiz gives him a magic black belt which seens to make him better, fast, but which may cost him his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KIMAziz Amna, Dur E
Summary: "For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. "This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl. On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AZIPylväinen, Hanna
Summary: "In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: The first day of school in Michigan is a nightmare for Korean-American fourth-grader Ben Lee, who grew up in Los Angeles surrounded by Korean stores and restaurants, but his new schoolmates laugh at the Korean delicacies he eats -- until his unexpectedly magic lunch box teaches them all a lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIMAnam, Tahmima
Summary: Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC ANAAnie, Sussie
Summary: Moving to a new part of London, Kwasi finds refuge and inspiration in an eclectic and run-down charity shop where he forms an unexpected friendship with its owner, giving each of them a new sense of belonging until local politics threaten to divide them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANIJoshi, Alka
Summary: After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 0000
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Summary: "A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUJoshi, Alka
Summary: After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer - and possible double agent - Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Maggie Hope has come a long way since she was Mr. Churchill's secretary. In the face of tremendous danger,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEEllickson, Ana
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Ruby Santos, grappling with her mother's death and financial struggles, discovers her father's secret life as a magical underworld delivery person, leading her to take over his station and jump train lines, only to realize the perilous nature of the job and the dangerous world she has entered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2024
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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 AIRAnna, Holly
Summary: "In this fourth adventure, Daisy and Posey help a pretty pixie named Twee get to the bottom of a not-so-pretty problem"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ANNTodd, Anna
Summary: When the trust they've placed in each other is traumatically broken, Karina and Kael, a soldier scarred by his time in Afghanistan, try to find a way back to each other, but soon Karina must decide whether loving someone she doesn't want to live without is worth risking everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frayed Pages 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TODReyes, Ana
Summary: "A captivating psychological suspense debut about a young woman still haunted by her teenage best friend's death who learns of an eerily similar death and must find her way back to a cabin in the New England woods, armed only with hazy memories, to finally find out the truth that has eluded her. Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYAnna, Holly
Summary: When Daisy Dreamer's imaginary friend, Posey, joins her at school, he nearly ruins the group project she and her friends are working on although he is trying to be helpful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2018