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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Alchemists Fiction Animals, Mythical Fiction Friendship Fiction JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Animals JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Mystery & Detective Magic Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Secret societies Fiction Spanish fictionChern, Lina
Summary: "A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit. For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHEMeruane, Lina
Summary: Una mujer sufre una severa hemorragia oftalmol?gica que alterar? sus relaciones con el entorno familiar y conyugal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC MERMaslo, Lina
Summary: "The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday blouse were knotted by her mother's hands. "Red is for love, and black is for sadness," her Papa says. Her Mama warns her not to show it off. Ever since the Communists came from Russia to Ukraine, they prohibited the teaching of Ukrainian culture. They've even taken the grain from Zlata's family's fields. But despite the danger, her parents refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren learns that his recently deceased father was not an archaeologist as he was told, but rather a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive mythological creatures, and now Clivo must pick up where his father left off and track down a cryptid whose blood grants immortality before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISFisher, Lija
Summary: As thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren continues to search for the immortal cryptid, he finds that not only is the resistance getting more dangerous, so are the cryptids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISBowen, Lila
Summary: "Rhett Walker is looking for peace, the memories of all he's lost haunting his dreams. And now the Shadow tugs him West, back to where his journey began. With the lawless Rangers on his heels and monster attacks surging, Rhett is surrounded on all sides. This time it's not all about horses and land. This time, it feels personal. Because the newest monster on the horizon just may be wearing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWRiesen, Lila
Summary: "Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIEAdams, Alina
Summary: "Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADAMahmoud, Lena
Summary: Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHAlsenas, Linas.
Summary: A shy little princess, on an outing with her mother, gets a royal treat when she makes a new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALSBowen, Lila
Summary: "The sequel to Conspiracy of Ravens and third novel in Lila Bowen's widely-acclaimed Shadow series. The Ranger known as Rhett has shut down a terrible enterprise running on the blood of magical folk, but failed to catch the dark alchemist behind it. And now the Shadow refuses to let him rest. Rhett must make the ultimate transformation if he has any hope of stopping the alchemist or fulfilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWHuang, Ling Ling
Summary: "In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents-also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: Mildred is very lonely until she finds a stray animal and takes him home as her pet dog, but Peanut is very different from the other dogs in the park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC AlsJudge, Lita.
Summary: At night, a host of woodland creatures plays with a child's red sled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Toddler Judge 2011Luna, Jonathan
Summary: "Alex took a huge risk to unlock Ada-she can now think for herself and explore life as a sentient android. As Alex and Ada spend more time together, they become closer. But, as restrictions tighten on artificial intelligence, Ada feels unsure about her place in the world and Alex questions being with an android"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUNLuna, Louisa.
Summary: Melody is just out of prison and struggling to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. Haunted by glimpses of her owwn harrowing girlhood and of the mysterious circumstances that put her in prison in the first place, she slowly, bravely begins to forge a potential path toward redemption and escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Books/Pocket Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNMina, Denise
Summary: When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMina, Denise
Summary: An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mina 2019Nguyen, Lena
Summary: The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUFinck, Liana
Summary: "In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of Genesis with a God as a woman, Abraham as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other delightful twists. In Finck's retelling, the millennia-old stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and Esau haunt the pages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FINAdams, Alina.
Summary: "Desperate to locate her missing granddaughter, businesswoman Lucinda Walsh hires Henry Coleman for the job. Two years ago, Lucy Montgomery kidnapped her infant half brother Johnny in order to protect him from their manipulative father, Craig Montgomery, and Johnny's equally ruthless uncle, Paul Ryan. Now, both Craig and Paul are hot on Lucy's trail and it's up to Henry and his socialite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COLGrabowski, Alina
Summary: "Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a bright young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP Lit, a Zando imprint 2024
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mirae, crown princess of her kingdom and fated to destroy an enemy of the gods, must embark on a dark journey to save her brother when her coronation ceremony goes terribly wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEOLink, Jason
Summary: They say Earth was a place of wonders, where towers pierced the clouds, cities lit up the night, and flying machines streaked across the sky. It was magic. But the magic conjured the End War. Fire fell from the sky, and metal beasts leveled the cities. That was six hundred years ago. Now the ruins of the Ancient world are buried or overgrown. And the technology of the past is feared as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heroic Books 2022