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Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2023
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Summary: Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He lives with his mother and grandmother above their used bookstore, decorated with colorful post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say "thank you," and when to laugh. When a shocking act of random violence shatters his world, it leaves him alone and on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOHHudson, Genevieve (Genevieve Katherine)
Summary: "A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new 'home' - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion--seemingly intertwined--permeate everything. While his parents don't know what to make of an American South pining for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUDYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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Summary: "Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father's injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOKAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "Desde que Emoni Santiago se quedó embarazada durante el segundo año de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones difíciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el único lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo es en la cocina: allí permite que sus manos le digan qué cocinar, sigue su intuición y agrega una pequeña pizca de magia en cada receta, lo que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ACEArafat, Zaina
Summary: "A novel of self-discovery following a Palestinian-American girl as she navigates queerness, love addiction and a series of tumultuous relationships' The Millions, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, Zaina Arafat's powerful debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to creative and confused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dialogue Books 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ARADickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DickensEverhart, Donna
Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVEHoby, Hermione
Summary: "New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat-sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBMéndez, Jasminne
Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MENRaymer, Beth
Summary: ""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC RAYSt. John, Madeleine
Summary: "The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode's, are run off their feet selling ladies' cocktail dresses during the busy season. But in Sydney in the 1950s, there's always time to pursue other goals... Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode's for years. She's married to Frank, who eats a steak for dinner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEVan Meter, Crissy
Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANHobson, Brandon
Summary: "A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBRutledge, Lynda
Summary: "'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals, a daughter for Pam and Daniel; a solo hit single for Joe. As the '90s wane, the three friends share in one another's successes, working together to elevate Joe's superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINGerard, Sarah
Summary: "One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star--captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERGunesekera, Romesh
Summary: "A coming-of-age story set in post-independence Sri Lanka"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNKrupitsky, Naomi
Summary: "A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KRURobinson, Eden
Summary: "The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy. From the bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller-prize shortlisted Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift. Jared, now 18, wakes up in a hospital bed, feeling like hell. Some of the people he loves--the ones who are deaf to magic--assume he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety and went on a bender to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Canada 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBButler, Tommy
Summary: "In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake - if it was a mistake - until too late.Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn't feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTDavis, Dana
Summary: Dylan and Langston used to be best friends. After he moved away, Langston became a star R&B artist. He returns for visit and stays with Dylan and her family. They start to renew their friendship--and maybe see their relationship grow into something else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2022