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Korman, Gordon

Summary: Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KOR

Tison, Ari

Summary: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TIS

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Summary: A mother, a boy and a dog against the night. Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his 11 years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Koontz 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Koo

Coles, Jay

Summary: "There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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Johnson, Varian

Summary: Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOH

Green, Holly

Summary: Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and she is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRE

Steel, Danielle

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Sanchez, Jasper

Summary: Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAN

Thomas, Angie.

Summary: Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THO

Taylor, Will

Summary: "Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice though, so he goes. On his first day, he takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Just like that, his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAY

Higashino, Keigo

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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McAllister, Gillian

Summary: "From Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCA

Lawrence, Iain

Summary: Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAW

Irving, John

Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IRV

Irving, John

Summary: Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which are not the first or the last ones he sees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IRV

Levithan, David

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEV

Khan, H. N.

Summary: Dreaming of being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA, fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry must convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team while dealing with the neighborhood bully.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHA

Rosen, Lev AC

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex's new relationship and make nice. So when his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity whom he hasn't seen in two years, shows up unexpectedly and offers to take him on an adventure, Tennessee only has a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROS

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROS

Arrows, Mark

Summary: Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span across massive ice-wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within them. The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface, but that doesn't mean it's safe... Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ARR

Amos, Shawn

Summary: Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AMO

Tyler, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYL

Coben, Harlan

1 hold on 7 copies

Summary: Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COB

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Coben 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M COB

Goldman, Matt

Summary: Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green's short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time, retreating into...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GOL

Kurbjuweit, Dirk

Summary: "You'd die for your family. But would you kill for them? I had always believed my father capable of a massacre. Whenever I heard on the news that there had been a killing spree, I would hold my breath, unable to relax until it was clear that it couldn't have been him. Randolph Tiefenthaler insists he had a normal childhood, though he grew up with a father who kept thirty loaded guns in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUR

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