Juska, Elise
Summary: "It's June 2021, and three old college friends are heading to New England and the twenty-fifth reunion that was delayed the year before. Hope, a stay-at-home mom, is desperate for a return to her beloved campus, a reprieve from her tense marriage, and the stresses of pandemic parenting. Adam is hesitant to leave his bucolic but secluded life with his wife and their young sons. Single mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Summary: "She wants a fake relationship. He needs something real. If there's one thing Rae can't stand, it's pity. She's forty, frazzled, and fed up - so attending an awards ceremony alone while her ex swans about with his new wife? Not an option. To avoid total humiliation, Rae needs a date of her own. And her young, hot-as-hell new best friend is the perfect candidate... Zach Davis, king of casual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nixon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBSilver, Josie
Summary: A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love--and life--she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December. When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is--all the nostalgic movies set in New York she'd watched with her mom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Summary: "From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARGoodman, Juliana
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder -- Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOOSilver, Josie
Summary: When Iris moves to New York City to restart her life, her friend Bobby drags her to an autumn street fair in Little Italy. Among the food stalls, a family-run gelateria catches her eye. She returns the next day and meets Gio, whose uncle is recuperating from a stroke and cannot remember the family's gelato recipe. Sampling the last remaining batch, Iris realizes the recipe is the same as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SILBayly, Jaime
Summary: Wealthy banker Ignacio is convinced that his beautiful but bored young wife, Zoe, is having an affair with his younger brother, Gonzalo, a painter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Planeta Colombiana 2001
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Summary: "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVSeales, Julia
Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEAWalton, Julia
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Phoebe Townsend created her blog, The Circle in the Square, as a place for her research into sex, and now she answers other teens' questions while trying to stay anonymous, but as the number of her followers rises, Phoebe finds herself exposed to the darker side of social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALMalye, Julia
Summary: "For fans of sweeping historical literature in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son or Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, an extraordinary US literary debut set in Paris and colonial New Orleans and based on a true story, about three of the 88 young women-among them an orphan, a madwoman, and an abortionist-who were deported to the Louisiana Territory as brides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Summary: "On the island of Guernsey, as WWII looms, many islanders make the heartbreaking choice to ship their children to safety in England, not knowing when (or if) they will be reunited. Acting on faith, Ava and Joseph Simon reluctantly send their 9-year-old son Henry and four-year-old daughter Catherine with their children's teacher Helen, who will escort them to the mainland. But Helen's sister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ThomasCai, Delia
Summary: "A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents, toppling her carefully constructed life in this vibrant, insightful debut from an exciting new voice in fiction. Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny town in central Illinois where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAIKelly, Julia
Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KELJuly, Miranda
Summary: "A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Summary: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the classic story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the point of view of Professor Pierre Aronnax, who was commissioned to find the mysterious sea monster responsible for sinking ships. Written by French science fiction writer Jules Verne in 1870, the novel illuminates themes that transcend time, such as man versus nature,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canterbury Classics 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVaca, Julian R.
Summary: "In a gripping and stunning coming-of-age novel, Julian R. Vaca reimagines a 1987 world where memories are as valuable as gold. In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated. To fight memory loss, men and women rely on artificial recall by storing memories on tapes and playing them back. Society's elite, dubbed recollectors, are able to retain "three-quarter memories" on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VACLasky, Kathryn
Summary: Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction of their land. No beaver has been spotted in Scotland or England for over five hundred years, until the young beaver, Dunwattle, is sighted! Dunwattle's flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LASLasky, Kathryn
Summary: Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction of their land. No beaver has been spotted in Scotland or England for over five hundred years, until the young beaver, Dunwattle, is sighted! Dunwattle's flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Since she received an old game console Ivette has become involved with speedrunning an old game called The Shattered Blade--so interested she enters a contest which pits her against an online gamer called Quick Silver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADBarrett, Judi
Summary: Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB BAR BASKETMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARPérez, Celia C.
Summary: Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERMaddox, Jake
Summary: Thema has always preferred books to video games, but when her younger twin brothers show her the battle game Shrinking Island Showdown she is hooked--and with her brothers help she plans to become good enough to compete in an esports competition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023