Burke, James Lee
Summary: On its surface, life in Houston in the 1950s is as you'd expect: stoic fathers, restless teens, drive-in movies, and souped-up Cadillacs. But underneath lies a world shifting under high school junior Aaron Broussard's feet. There's a class war between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' as well as a real war, Korea, happening on the other side of the world. It is against this backdrop that Aaron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Planning is Zoe Rosenthal's superpower. She has faith in a properly organized to-do list and avoids unnecessary risks. Her mental checklist goes something like this: 1) Meet soulmate: DONE! 2) Make commitment: DONE! 3) Marriage: TO COME! (after college). She isn't sure which college yet, but it will have a strong political science department, since her perfect boyfriend, Simon, plans to "save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WERSparks, Nicholas.
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father-- until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her brother spent the summer with him"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2010
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Summary: When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her deams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NOVZancan, Caroline
Summary: "Maggie, Lindsey, and Nina have been friends for most of their lives. The girls grew up together in a dead-end Florida town on the outskirts of Orlando, and the love and loyalty they have for one another have been their only constants. Now nineteen and restless, the girls spend empty summer days bouncing between unfulfilling jobs, the beach, and their favorite local bar, 'The Shamrock.' It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZANAusten, Jane
Summary: "Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world's enduring affection for the headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her many romantic schemes. Like the previous volumes in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Emma: An Annotated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Austen 2012Fergus, Jim.
Summary: Heading west to join the search for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Ned Giles meets a troubled Apache girl, imprisoned in a Mexican jail, whose fate forces him to make a choice that will change his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERGaffney, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUShinn, Sharon.
Summary: Jenna Starborn must leave the family that scorned her and find her own way in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIShoemaker, Sarah
Summary: "<Strong>"Reader, she married me."</strong> For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father-- until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her brother spent the summer with him"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. Large Print 2009
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Summary: Three years ago, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller was crushed to learn that her parents were getting a divorce and that her father was moving from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Now, seventeen-year-old Ronnie is still bitterly detached from her father. However, when she is sent to Wilmington to reconnect with him over summer vacation, she discovers that he has moved on with his life and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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Summary: "At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she is--a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don't agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood's latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn't amused. Instead, she's determined to make sure he doesn't bother her again. Only she's not sure exactly who he is. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESAusten, Jane
Summary: Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Splinter 2012
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Summary: When a friend is charged with a fifteen-year-old murder, wheelchair-bound Poppy Blake at first refuses to believe the charges but then wonders if her friend may have justifiably changed her identity in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrunt, Carol Rifka.
Summary: "1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Brunt 2012Callanan, Liam.
Summary: Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is an enthralling debut novel, a story of adventure and awakening-and of a young soldier who came to Alaska on an extraordinary, top-secret mission, and found a world that would haunt him forever. Drifting through the night, whisper-quiet, they were the most sublime manifestations of a desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALDaum, Meghan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAUHoover, Colleen
Summary: Layken and Will's relationship has endured through hardships, heartache, and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together. But the two lovers could not have expected that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the things that tear them apart. Their connection is on the brink of being destroyed forever and it will take an extraordinary amount of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2012
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Summary: "Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction King 2020Sparks, Nicholas.
Summary: A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in South Carolina who is changed for the better by the love of a girl. She is the angelic daughter of a local minister and the boy joins her in doing good deeds. But she has a secret which will break his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999