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Summary: Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWMcAdam, Tash
Summary: "In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sister's death."-- Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCARash, Ron.
Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Serena returns to Appalachia, this time at the height of World War I, with the story of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Summary: "During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Indiana Quaker, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SHAGash, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASAw, Tash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWRash, Ron
Summary: Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have shaped their lives in contemporary Appalachia, a sheriff on the brink of retirement and a haunted park ranger confront violent forces when an elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M RASRash, Ron
Summary: A collection of thirty-four stories set in Appalachia illuminates the tensions between the traditional and the modern, the old and new South, tenderness and violence, and man and nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASShaw, Dash
Summary: An ode to that defining element of fandom: the "costume play" of anime and comic convention culture. Also features Shaw's short story, "My entire high school sinking into the sea," a precursor to the Cosplayers stories and the source material for the motion picture of the same name, in addition to other surprises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHAShaw, Dash.
Summary: It's 2060, and a devastating civl war has left the country in shambles. Professor Paulie Panther--botanist, writer, and hopeless romantic--arrives in the experimental forest town of Boney Borough to research a strange plant growing behind the high school. Paulie soon discovers that the plant, when smoked, imparts telepathic powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHAMcAdam, Tash
Summary: When seventeen-year-old trans guy Max meets Gloss, he loses himself in an all-consuming relationship, but after his ex-summer romance turned bully turns up dead and Gloss takes the blame, Max veers dangerously close to being implicated as he desperately tries to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCAMcAdam, Tash
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old shy, socially awkward trans teen Bass reluctantly skips school and goes on a boat trip with his adventure-seeking girlfriend, Rosie. When a sudden storm smashes their boat on a rocky shore off a deserted island, Bass and Rosie struggle to make it to safety. Bruised and battling hypothermia, the pair have to seek shelter and work together to survive until they can be rescued....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCASummary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY TIMSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OMcAdam, Tash
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, nonbinary teen Brick must rescue the crew of the spaceship they snuck onto when it is taken over by pirates."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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Summary: A freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school and it gets harder and harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her in New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TASCash, Dixie.
Summary: "The Domestic Equalizers are back, in a new hilarious Southern tale from the ever-popular Dixie Cash"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon A 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCash, Johnny.
Summary: DVD: The pride of Jesse Hallam is the story of a coal miner and recent widow who face his illiteracy when he moves from a Kentucky farm to a big city in Ohio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CASCash, Wiley
Summary: Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CashCash, Wiley
Summary: When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina. But nothing can prepare him for what he finds: a large airplane has crash-landed and is now sitting sideways on the runway, and there are no signs of a pilot or cargo. When the body of a local man is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CASRash, Andy.
Summary: When Roy gets a saddle for his birthday, he goes in search of a horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RasRash, Ron
Summary: The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains--but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RASCash, Wiley.
Summary: Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Hall is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012