Attenberg, Jami
Summary: "Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATTJama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
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Summary: "When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOXYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: "Madam surprises Shiro with a gift that he quickly puts to good use. Shino asks Shiro for advice on how to keep her new husband fit and healthy. Kayoko invites Shiro to a cherry blossom picnic, at which Shiro is rescued from romantic disaster. Kenji gets a spiffy new suit for his birthday, and the couple considers the implications of a new same-sex partnership certificate law in Shibuya..." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2016
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Summary: In this second installment of Fumi Yoshinaga's deliciously charming slice-of-gay-life, we delve into the beginnings of Shiro and Kenji's relationship. Shiro continues to expand his culinary creativity while dealing with problomatic clients and his well-meaning but misguided mother, who comes to rely on him when a health scare hits close to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014
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Summary: In this volume of discovery and acceptance, we learn that happiness depends on small constant pleasures (meals first and foremost)-and that the reason Kenji fell for Shiro has to do with an '80s manga. As the couple's relationship deepens, author Yoshinaga takes the slice-of-life genre to unique heights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHABayly, Jaime
Summary: Wealthy banker Ignacio is convinced that his beautiful but bored young wife, Zoe, is having an affair with his younger brother, Gonzalo, a painter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Planeta Colombiana 2001
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Summary: With his friend Charlotte, twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, escapes from a Seattle orphanage determined to find his mother Willow and discover his connection to the exotic film star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ford 2013Oliver, Jamie
Summary: Discovering a secret way into Waterfall Woods, which is out of bounds, Billy and his best friends discover a world of magic and unusual creatures who need their help, sending them on an unforgettable adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2023
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Summary: Lady Francesca Haughston had given up on romance for herself, finding passion instead in making desirable matches for others. So it seemed only fair, when she learned she had been deceived into breaking her own long-ago engagement to Sinclair, Duke of Rochford, that she now help him find the perfect wife. Of course, Francesca was certain any spark of passion between them had long since died....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAMYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: Part comic, part cookbook. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, Shiro and Kenji will always have down-time together by the dinner table where they can discuss their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals. Not only is food incorporated into the narrative, but the frames...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAMaalouf, Amin.
Summary: The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004
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Summary: "Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
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Summary: When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend at a lovingly restored old mansion, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie ever written, Dorothy should have known better, but even she could not have anticipated the terror that is unleashed by an epic storm and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMFreveletti, Jamie
Summary: Jon Smith and the Covert One team begin a worldwide search to recover several high-ranking members of government, including Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert who possesses confidential passwords and codes that his kidnappers could use to reprogram drones to strike targets within the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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Summary: "From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Summary: When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Exiled hero Justin Cord works to outmaneuver a power-hungry corporate Earth society that has launched an interplanetary war in order to regain control over the outer planets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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Summary: "Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOADams, Jeanne M.
Summary: June, 1925. Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life in genteel Oak Park Village, Illinois. There, she forms a close friendship with gentle Mr Anthony. But tragedy strikes when Mr Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his shop. Why would anyone murder a mild-mannered antiques dealer? Could it have something to do with the mysterious customer who bought a gold pocket watch from Mr...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAMStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Pour faire plaisir à sa tante Toupillia, Geronimo se trouve embarqué avec sa soeur Téa, son cousin Traquenard et son neveu Benjamin dans une chasse au trésor des plus mouvementées. Ils doivent suivre les dernières traces de l'oncle Epilon (disparu vingt ans plus tôt en mer) ainsi que retrouver un trésor caché dans une épave enfouie au large des îles Souruques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albin Michel jeunesse 2005
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Summary: It's election time at Mouseford Academy, and the candidates from the Lizard and Gecko student clubs have to win several competitions if they want to become class president. But during the competitions, something mysterious tries to pollute the island's beaches! The fate of the election and their beautiful island home is at stake!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
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Summary: Friends of the spacemice have disappeared on a strange ice planet, Polarix! Geronimo Stiltonix and his crew are called to search for them. When the spacemice arrive on Polarix, they're surprised at the inhabitants -- cute little aliens that look like colorful fuzz balls! But are these creatures as harmless as they look?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015