Spiner, Brent
Summary: "Brent Spiner's explosive and hilarious novel is a personal look at the slightly askew relationship between a celebrity and his fans. If the Coen Brothers were to make a Star Trek movie, involving the complexity of fan obsession and sci-fi, this noir comedy might just be the one. Set in 1991, just as Star Trek: The Next Generation has rocketed the cast to global fame, the young and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPILouis, Édouard
Summary: "On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind. A bestseller in France; challenged and vindicated in the courts; History of Violence is a short...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUErnaux, Annie
Summary: "A daughter must come to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father, a cafe owner whose life has become very alien to her."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERNCoelho, Paulo
Summary: Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey in search of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Coelho 2018Burke, James Lee
Summary: "Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: LP FIC BURShin, Kyung-sook
Summary: "Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHIRoss, Raymond S.
Summary: Novel based on the author's experiences as a soldier from the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) sent to an armored infantry division for active overseas duty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Page Publications 2005
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Curry, Parker
Summary: "Parker writes letters to her friend Gia while she travels across the U.S. and visits states such as Georgia and New Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CURMeruane, 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 MERWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Brothers 1981
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCParra, John
Summary: Today Juanito is accompanying his father who is in the landscaping business, and he takes his sketchbook along to draw anything that catches his eye, and gets to help his father plan an entire garden--and then help plant it. Includes an autobiographical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC 2022
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Summary: "An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUAmis, Martin
Summary: "From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Amis 2020Ratner, Vaddey
Summary: An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway finalist Vaddey Ratner. Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ratner 2017Sentsov, Oleg
Summary: "The stories in Ukrainian film director, writer, and dissident Oleg Sentsov's debut collection are as much acts of dissent as they are acts of creative expression. These autobiographical stories display a Tarkovsky-esque mix of nostalgia and philosophical insight, written in a simple yet profound style looking back on a life's path that led Sentsov to become an internationally renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Vellum Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENWalker, Alice
Summary: "The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage - a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWiener, Gabriela
Summary: "An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIEFahmy, Huda
Summary: Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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Summary: "Drawing on her own diaries, Phoebe Wahl presents the illustrated journal of a teenage girl careening through the turmoil and ecstasy of adolescence amid school plays, art projects, favorite bands, blossoming friendships, and new love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC WAHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WAHWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Juana's life in Bogotá, Colombia, is just about perfect. Every now and then a big problema comes along--like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried--but things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But then Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEDYanow, Sophie
Summary: "Sophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit lonely and out of place, she's desperate for community and a sense of belonging. She stumbles into what/who she's looking for when she meets Zena. An anarchist student-activist committed to veganism and shoplifting, Zena offers Sophie a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YANGroen, Hendrik
Summary: "Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021