De Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hated by many, but with the livelihoods of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEGBarber, Angel
Summary: Eric Wallace is sick of secrets. As a Black queer teen, Eric's efforts to conform to fit his parents' and classmates' expectations have left him exhausted by the summer after senior year. When Eric finds out his pastor father has been cheating on his mother, his picture-perfect family crumbles. Eric rages at the double standards he's been held to. He travels to Los Angeles with his best friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARMilano, Alyssa
Summary: "Things are ruff for Hope Roberts. After learning that the local animal shelter might close, Hope decides to do whatever it takes to stop that from happening. Eastern Shore Animal Shelter is where Hope found her two furry best friends. It has to stay open so the other animals can find their fur-ever homes, too! But when the shelter moves up their last day, Hope knows she has to work fast. Can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPPMilman, Derek
Summary: Finding himself alone in a posh New York City hotel room for the night, Aidan does what any red-blooded seventeen-year-old would do-- he tries to hook up with someone new. But that lapse in judgment leads to him waking up next to a dead guy, which sparks an epic case of mistaken identity. Now he's on the run from federal agents-- and a cyber-terrorist group who will stop at nothing to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books 2019
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Summary: Merida, Rapunzel, Aurora, and the other Disney princesses bake delicious cakes, cookies, and other sweet treats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE JORHirano, Kohta.
Summary: One of the best things about Kohta Hirano's sexy apocalypse of warring vampires, Nazis, Catholics, werewolves, and Australian mercenaries is that all the way up to, and possibly through this final volume, we don't know who's going to win. The streets of London are awash in blood, a zeppelin descends a la Hindenburg, and six of our favorite characters are locked in face-off fights. It's possible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2007
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Summary: "Three college friends from the 50's blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These 'wild girls' pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Review Press 2016
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Living safe and anonymous after the Battle of Neo Seoul, telepath Ama does not expect to be approached by a resistance group to help expose a government experiment similar to the one she successfully fled. Once she accepts, however, her assignments get more dangerous until she finds herself manipulating the mind of the boy she once loved and was betrayed by, so she can unseat him as commander...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, Lee & Low Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHDjanikian, Ariel
Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...
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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 DJALawhon, Ariel
Summary: "Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. Germany, February 17, 1920: A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "Sam Baron is about to get the shock of his life. First his substitute English teacher claims to have turned his old teacher into a lizard; then a strange dwarf named Rego arrives and claims Sam is from a magical realm called Orkney. When his friends are taken prisoner, it's up to Sam to save them. Sam embarks on a journey to Orkney through a stonefire to find his friends, but when he arrives,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SparkPress 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADAMian, Zanib
Summary: "Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIAWeatherwax, Annie
Summary: "[A] portrait of a gritty mother and daughter, living on the edge of poverty, who find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEAAbel, Heather
Summary: "This novel about a utopian camp and its charismatic leader takes us into the lives of five unforgettable characters, and is a sweeping saga of idealism, love, class, and a piece of land that changes everyone who lives on it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018