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Albee, Jay

Summary: "Friends Marco and Maddie are having a shared birthday party, and nonbinary fourth-grader Riley and their friends are ready to celebrate! There are games, crafts, competitions, and lots of other distractions to keep them busy while they wait for the homemade ice cream. Hopefully they won't be too tired to enjoy it when it's finally ready!"--back cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALB

Albee, Jay

Summary: Nonbinary fourth-grader Riley learns how hard it is to take care of a dog.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALB

Albee, Jay

Summary: Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends learn how small, simple parks can be just as important and fun as fancy new parks.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALB

Albee, Jay

Summary: Nonbinary fourth-grader Riley is excited for their annual summer get-together with family.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALB

Lescure, Aube Rey

Summary: Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she’s never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva’s hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Raby, Meg

Summary: Piper and her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum, are excited to attend a birthday party for their friend Ruthie. In kid-friendly language, Piper explains the accommodations Otto and Ruthie, who is also autistic, need in order to feel safe and secure in a stimulating new environment, such as wearing headphones to keep distracting noises muffled. The book provides explanations...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2022

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Dray, Stephanie

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Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dray 2021

Dray, Stephanie

Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DRA (BOOK CLUB KIT-8 paperbacks)

Dray, Stephanie

11 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024

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Wray, CJ

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Summary: Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Stoeve, Ray

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey finds escape in her love of film photography as she navigates toxic relationships and how they influence her identity.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STO

Chee, Traci

Summary: After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHE

Pokwatka, Aimee

Summary: "Aimee Pokwatka's novel Self-Portrait with Nothing is "fraught and deeply moving...the work of a genuinely exciting new talent." (Booker Prize winner, George Saunders). If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian's front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving mothers, and now at thirty-six is married to the stable, supportive Ike. She's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POK

Reid, Aimee

Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal how a newborn baby is welcomed to the world by parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives, and neighbors.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022

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Cruz, Angie

Summary: "From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cruz

Benjamin, Larry (Lawrence Ray)

Summary: Tristan and Max are a pair of Asian-American high school students who find themselves unexpectedly in love in post-Columbine America. Tristan works to balance what it means to be an excellent son, with its prescribed expectations and attendant demands, with his growing desire for independence and his deepening feelings for Max. While Max, after years of hopelessness, feels himself come alive at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaten Track Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Martinez, Gama Ray

Summary: "In this magical re-imagining of J.M. Barrie's classic tale, Michael Darling--the youngest of the Darling siblings and former Lost Boy, now all grown up--must return to the life he left behind to save Neverland from the brink of collapse and keep humanity safe from magical and mythological threats, as well as answer the ultimate question: Where is Peter Pan?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Moore, Johnny Ray

Summary: As the reader experiences the sights, sounds, and activities of each season through the author's poetic words, the illustrations celebrate the joys of fatherhood by showing African American dads and their kids enjoying the year together.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycroft Books 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOO

Gray, Madeleine

Summary: At 24, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet—a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds—introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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Perkins, Lynne Rae

Summary: "Violet and Jobie, sibling mice accustomed to living comfortably in a human home, find themselves uprooted and must quickly adapt to an unfamiliar world"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PER

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PER

Pokwatka, Aimee

Summary: When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2024

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May, Francesca

Summary: "On Crow Island, people whispered, real magic lurked just below the surface, but Annie Mason never expected her enigmatic new neighbor to be a witch. When she witnesses a confrontation between her best friend Bea and the infamous Emmeline Delacroix at one of Emmeline's extravagantly illicit parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where magic can buy what money can not; a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

Kim, Angie

Summary: "We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KIM

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