Garza Villa, Jonny
Summary: The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Martí́́nez has ever known. His family's taquería inspired them as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all of these things that make them question if they are ready to leave the neighborhood behind. When Ander meets Santiago López Alvarado, the hot new waiter, falling for each other becomes as natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GARHogrogian, Nonny.
Summary: After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1971
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOGDuddle, Jonny
Summary: All young dinosaurs are warned about the scary Gigantosaurus so Bonehead volunteers to be the dino-kids lookout. Unfortunately, he is the original boy-dinosaur who cried wolf, or in this case, GIGANTOSAURUS! Finally, Bonehead's friends refuse to believe his warnings and the Gigantosaurus really turns up!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DUDRosenberg, Jordy
Summary: Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSShipman, Viola
Summary: "Devastated by the sudden death of her mother -- a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family -- Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SHICather, Willa
Summary: Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATGardam, Jane.
Summary: The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat. Old Filth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARTilly, Meg
Summary: Dumped on the eve of her wedding and Maggie Harris joins her sister on Solace Island, to lick her emotional wounds. At first Maggie resists Eve's plans about the sisters opening their own local bakery. And she doesn't appreciate Eve's efforts to fix her up with their neighbor, Luke Benson. When a car almost runs her down in the middle of the street, Luke saves her. Now he'll do anything to keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TILRoss, JoAnn
Summary: "When he lands in the emergency room after collapsing at the funeral of a colleague and friend, Wall Street hotshot Gabriel Mannion initially rejects the diagnosis of an anxiety attack. But when warned that if he doesn't change his adrenaline-fueled, workaholic lifestyle he could end up like his friend, Gabe reluctantly returns to his hometown of Honeymoon Harbor to regroup. As he adjusts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN Books 2019
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Summary: "For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger she's believed since childhood would one day carry on her legacy -- the Very Cherry General Store. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SHIMacmillan, Gilly
Summary: Growing up blaming her mother after the mysterious disappearance of her beloved nanny, an embittered woman is forced to return home decades later when the discovery of human remains forces her to question everything she thought she knew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACForrest, Bella
Summary: Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband -- a rating out of ten awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower, and monitored by a device in her skull. A device that reports forbidden thoughts. Liana is currently a four, the lowest possible acceptable score. When her worst nightmare comes to pass and she drops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightlight Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA SF ForrestArdone, Viola
Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Children's Train comes a heartrending coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries-old tradition to win the right to control her own life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARDGarcía, Cristina
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban, a new novel that follows three generations of a divided family against the tumultuous backdrops of Cuba, America, Germany, and Russia in the new millennium"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: Describes how various earthmoving trucks clean up a dump and make a playground, discussing what such machines as diggers, mixers, bulldozers, and cranes can do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boxer 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GarMillar, Mark
Summary: Where do you go when you die? Not heaven or hell; somewhere else. Somewhere you have to fight to survive. Somewhere the people from the past are waiting for you--the good and the bad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MILShipman, Viola
Summary: "Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home--complete with its own set of rules for relaxing--that she's inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she's facing a broken marriage and empty nest, and middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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Summary: "Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When Henri's boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner's -- their iconic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "Fortune is a dazzling, endlessly surprising historical novel that opens the day Napoleon leads his victorious Grande Armée into Berlin after having conquered Prussia in battle. As crowds throng the streets to witness the emperor in his glory, a handful of lives that briefly touch are sprung from their orbits and set on courses that will take them across Europe and around the world--their fates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARPerry, Marta
Summary: "Anna Stoltzfus lives a quiet but fulfilling life in Promise Glen. Though she lost her beloved brother in a tragic accident, her family is supportive and close-knit, and her job as a cherished teacher at the Orchard Hill Amish School fills her heart with joy each day. Anna knows one day she'll find someone she can love and marry, but she's perfectly happy with the life she created. Anna's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PERForrest, Bella
Summary: Penultimate adventure of Liana in The girl who dared to think series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018