Burstein, Deror
Summary: In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, where the streets are literally crawling with prophets and heathen helicopters buzz over Old Testament sovereigns, two young poets are about to have their lives turned upside down. Struggling Jeremiah is worried that he might be wasting his time trying to be a writer; the great critic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURLepore, Gabriella
Summary: "Savana Caruso and Jesse Melo have known each other since they were kids, so when Jesse texts Savana in the middle of the night and asks her to meet him at Cray's Warehouse, she doesn't hesitate. But before Savana can find Jesse, she bears witness to a horrifying murder, standing helpless on the ground as a mysterious figure is pushed out of the fourth floor of the warehouse. Six teens were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEPLevin, Adam
Summary: "Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVHolness, Nevin
Summary: Eli, who possesses unique magical abilities, and Malcolm, desperate to escape his past and save his mother, join forces to retrieve a dangerous magical artifact in the mystical underbelly of London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLBump, Gabriel
Summary: "After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUMKrauze, Gabriel
Summary: The unforgettable narrator goes by two names in his two worlds. At university, he's Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the classroom, he's Snoopz, a hard living member of London's gangs, well-acquainted with drugs, guns, stabbings, and robbery. Navigating these sides of himself, dealing with loving parents at the same...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRASmith, Gabriel
Summary: "From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protagonist grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: Charlie Tristan Moore must stop the Man in Black, a treacherous elder god known as the Crawling Chaos, from freeing his dread father from endless confinement to feast upon humanity for all eternity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAKerin, Liz
Summary: "I'm always careful not to disturb mom. A rude awakening can definitely set her off, especially if she wakes up hungry. I can't forget what she is. What she could do to me." Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurricular activities, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: tell no one of Izzy's hunger - the one only blood can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KERHunter, Devin
Summary: "Time is running out for Grey and his squad. While they consistently rank in the top twenty players stuck in Fortnite Battle Royale, they need to be the top five to escape virtual reality and go home. Grey's team begins to fray apart, and he fears he won't be able to keep them together long enough to get the rank they need. With the season ending in a couple weeks, people are either giving up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUNNavin, Rhiannon
Summary: Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NAVBelt, Gabriela Orozco
Summary: "When Maribel's family has to move in with Tía Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It's not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls that it's only por un ratito--just for a little while. In the meantime, there is always someone to play with, the mealtimes are filled with music and laughter, and bedtime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BELCarey Nevin, Judy
Summary: "There is so much kindness in the world and this sweet board book celebrates those special differences that make kind acts both individual and similar. Judy Carey Nevin's bouncing text paired with Susie Hammer's bright, brilliant art showcases a creative look at how important kindness can be. From optimistic ideas of hope to small acts of goodwill, each scene shares the heart of the story:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE CARBlevins, Winfred
Summary: "Thomas Fitzpatrick always longed for something more -- to see more, do more, and be more. At just seventeen, he leaves home and sails up the Mississippi River in the winter of 1822. Crossing paths with the famed explorer, William Clark, marks the beginning of his epic adventures as a fur trader, leading him through trials and triumphs that are beyond anything he could have ever hoped for....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists. Georgie, Lissa, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLBurnham, Gabriella
Summary: "Elise is out dancing the night before her graduation from college, hundreds of miles from home, when her younger sister Sophie calls to tell her that their mother has gone missing. They soon discover that she was arrested on her way home from work and deported to São Paulo, Brazil. Elise decides to return to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly three years to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024
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Summary: "Gifted doctor Cecelia Cobbina was once held in the highest regard by peers and patients alike. But that was before an incident in Africa changed her life forever. Now with the ability to process thoughts at the speed of light, she faces the unimaginable burden of literally having an answer for everything. As the truth of her origin slowly comes into focus, Cecelia must overcome her fears and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H1, an imprint of Humanoid, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OMNPrendergast, Gabrielle
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, foster brothers Zack and Peter pull together to survive after a flash flood leaves them stranded in an evacuated neighborhood of their riverside town."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC PREMensah, Elvin James
Summary: "An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chosen family, the winding road to happiness, and the grace of second chances. Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? It's 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENDjanikian, 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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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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Lawhon 2018Klein, Matthew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLELevine, Gail Carson.
Summary: In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LEVLevine, Gail Carson.
Summary: In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2008