Nunn, Malla
Summary: "A biracial girl living in post-apartheid South Africa is determined to unveil the mystery of her white mother's hidden past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NUNMaunakea, Malia
Summary: 12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best friend and places a curse on her family--one that only Lei can lift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAUOlder, Malka
Summary: "When 17 students and staff members disappear from Valdegeld University, Investigator Mossa once again needs Pleiti's insight, but Pleiti finds this new case threatening to further destabilize her dreams for humanity's future as well as her own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: "'Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph'--Charlie Jane Anders. The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: A suicidal teen fighting the symptoms of Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder creates a bucket list of ten goals to achieve by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, before a newcomer with her own troubled history unknowingly offers him more hopeful perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Teen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOMLally, Megan
Summary: Told in two voices, a seventeen-year-old battered and bruised girl struggles to remember who she or the man claiming to be her father is while seventeen-year-old Drew stops at nothing to find his missing girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LALHalle, Karina
Summary: "He's the royal bodyguard. She's the royal nanny. The annoyingly hot attraction that simmers between them - that's a royal pain. James Hunter has made a tactical error. His new role as protection officer to Prince Magnus of Norway was supposed to be an exciting change. Instead he's marooned on a royal estate in the middle of nowhere charged with chasing after demon children and dodging the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: When her vicious tía, Catrina, seizes the throne of Devil's Alley and sets her sights on the living world, Cece Rios must do everything in her power to stop the bruja queen from taking control of the four elements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIVIbrahim, Maiya
Summary: When she learns that her brother is spreading the nation's secret spice magic to outsiders, sixteen-year-old Shield warrior Imani sets out on a dangerous mission to find him, discovering secrets that lie beyond the Forbidden Wastes--and in her own heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC IBRFay, Cayla
Summary: Stuck in high school until her eighteenth birthday, demi-god Neve is eager to join her sisters in their fight against evil, but when she meets Alexandria, a girl with a dark secret, Neve must choose between duty and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FAYMalladi, Amulya
Summary: "Everyone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard. So, when part-time blues musician, frustrated home renovator, and full-time private detective Gabriel Præst agrees to investigate the matter because his ex--the one who got away--asked him to, he knew it was a no-win case. But as Gabriel starts to ask questions, his face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MALNoel, Kaela
Summary: "While on a weeks-long visit to her aunt Verity's house, eleven-year-old Elsby discovers there is more to the cats living in the house next door than first meets the eye"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NOERivera, Kaela
Summary: Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujeraia to rescue her kidnapped sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIVBunn, T. Davis
Summary: When his Aunt Amelia, his closest friend and greatest supporter, passes away, leaving him her home in Miramar, classical guitarist Ian Hart uses this opportunity to reflect and move forward after a scandal destroyed his career but instead finds himself drawn to another newcomer, artist Kari Langham, who changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: The wealthy island nation of Singapore seems like an oasis of luxury and order, but it owes everything to the immigrant women no one sees. Corazon, Donita, and Angel are Filipina domestic workers--part of the wave of women sent to Singapore to be cleaners, maids, and caregivers in its decadent homes. A veteran domestic worker, Corazon had retired back to the Philippines for good, but she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JASDunn, Stephane
Summary: Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUNManternach, Karla
Summary: "Everything is going Meena's way. Her seizures are under control...she's trying hard to be a better friend. So when Sofaia's cat, Oriol, goes missing, Meena is the first to help her look. But when Meena learns Sofaia's family might be moving far away, everything starts to fall apart... With a little help from her trash collection, Meena sets out to locate Oriol and keep Sofaia close. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MANValenti, Karla
Summary: Nine-year-old twins Emma and Martín travel into a book of legends and where they must try to stop the rain god's flood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED VALBunn, T. Davis
Summary: Still mourning his wife four years after her death, art history teacher and auction house consultant Derek Gaines teams up with Kelly Reid, the head of gallery operations at Christie's Los Angeles, to track down a stolen painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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Summary: "Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDallas, Sandra
Summary: A thirteen-year-old girl living in an 1880 Colorado gold-mining town witnesses the hardships of her community as she assists her father, the town doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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Summary: "This next spellbinding installment of Juno's "irresistible" fantasy series Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Lana Harper) takes us back to the reign of Henry VIII and the origins of Her Majesty's Royal Coven under the beautiful, the bewitching, Anne Boleyn. It's 1536 and the Queen has been beheaded. Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play--that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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Summary: "Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENDawson, Juno
Summary: "If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022