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(Fictitious character) Captain America Juvenile fiction (Fictitious character) Hulk Juvenile fiction (Norse deity) Thor Juvenile fiction Avengers (Fictitious characters) Juvenile fiction Death Fiction Large type books Short stories Short stories, American Teenage girls Young adult fictionSummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALSummary: Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305 ROOBeattie, Ann
Summary: This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEASummary: "Sixteen acclaimed authors--including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling novelist, and a beloved actress--join forces for a cross-genre YA anthology of linked short stories about the first days of college. Jilly cannot believe her parents keep showing up at all of her orientation events. (Except, yes, she can totally believe that.) Isaac wants to be known as someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FIRGrisham, John
Summary: "Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRISummary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
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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 BLASummary: Here are some awesome superhero stories about Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Nick Fury as they fight the universe's biggest baddies and save mankind!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Press 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Murrow, Vita
Summary: What if princesses didn't always marry Prince Charming and live happily every after? This stunning anthology features 15 favorite fairytales retold for a new generation. From Sleeping Beauty who becomes a world-famous sleep disorder specialist to Cinderella who goes on to become Prime Minister to Little Red Riding Hood, the environmentalist and Princess of the Wolves, these princesses are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC MURShusterman, Neal
Summary: A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUSummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONGrisham, John
Summary: "Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GrishamStabile, Lannie
Summary: A collection of flash fiction that explores the intricacies, intimacies, and strangeness of grief and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ELJ Editions, Ltd. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASummary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASummary: Collects eighteen stories chronicling the adventures of such heroes as Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, and Hulk as they fight against supervillains, including Ultron, Thanos, and the Masters of Evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGVollmann, William T.
Summary: A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death and the erotic all focusing on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOLWeiner, Eric Daniel
Summary: Hello! Freddie Parrott III here with some exciting news. Too exciting, in fact. The stories I have to tell you are rather feather-raising. But don't worry. Somehow my butler and best friend, Peccary, always finds a way to save the day. Then he and I have a big chuckle--at my expense. They don't call me famously funny for nothing!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WEIPietrzyk, Leslie
Summary: This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEGaiman, Neil
Summary: A rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What's better than a deliciously cozy, swoon-worthy holiday story? Four of them! These original stories follow teens finding love during the winter holiday season. Whether it's an unexpected detour in a snow storm, a Hanukkah miracle for a department store elf, a surprising gift exchange, or a scavenger hunt at an airport, get ready to fall in love! -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SNOCaspers, Nona
Summary: Years after Casperss unnamed narrator loses her first lover in a tragic accident, she finds herself wondering, "What did she want from me? What are the things that matter?" In vivid, richly detailed vignettes, the book tracks the cyclical nature of grief and remembrance across a life fractured by loss. At times dryly comical, at other times radiantly surreal, The Fifth Woman is a testament to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASSummary: A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BLAWalker, Martin
Summary: After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a Senegalese man's coffee sells superbly at the market, some cafe owners become incensed by the new competition and take matters into their own hands. As a Swiss tourist and a St. Denis native fall in love over the fruit-and-veggie stall, one of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022