Emill, Jumata
Summary: When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikely ally in her search for the killer--her prime suspect, Tinsley, the white rival nominee for queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMIEmill, Jumata
Summary: Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMIYagi, Emi
Summary: "When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups-because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAGFemia, Gina
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FEMJean, Emiko
Summary: Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever After. When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Now, shes overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JEAKumarasamy, Akil
Summary: "Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others in an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUMNaymark, Emilya
Summary: After a neighborhood summer block party ends in violence and the disappearance of two women, private investigator Laney Bird discovers that her close circle of friends have become suspects and her complicated and enigmatic teenage son is hiding something.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAYGray, Mila
Summary: A talented recording artist succumbing to a stalker's psychological games falls passionately in love with her bodyguard, an ex-Marine battling trauma from his service in Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRABagnold, Enid
Summary: In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BagnoldKaufman, Amie
Summary: "Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something--someone--behind. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the person he loves and return to his world. In their desperation to reunite and save their people, Nimh and North face one ultimate question: can they defy their love and their destiny to save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAUGreen, Evie
Summary: "A suspenseful, cutting-edge novel about two parents who finally get the daughter they've always wanted-it's too bad she isn't real. From the author of We Hear Voices. For Tamsyn and Ed, life is tough. They both work long hours for very little money and come home to their moody, rebellious daughter, Scarlett. After a tragic accident leaves Scarlett comatose and with little chance of recovery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREJean, Emiko
Summary: When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEAKeil, Michelle Ruiz
Summary: In 1990s Portland, Oregon, seventeen-year-old Iph, aided by George, a modern-day Robin Hood, seeks her sensitive fifteen-year-old brother, Orr, while Orr has escaped wilderness boot camp and is residing with The Furies, an all-girl punk band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021
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Summary: "Ohioana Book Award finalist Ruth Emmie Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with extraordinary abilities in The Wilderwomen. Five years ago, Nora Wilder disappeared. The older of her two daughters, Zadie, should have seen it coming, because she can literally see things coming. But not even her psychic abilities were able to prevent their mother from vanishing one morning....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANKayode, Femi
Summary: "Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake. Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the co-owner of destination inn Carrigan's All Year. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATShafak, Elif
Summary: "Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAPacheco, Josae Emilio
Summary: "This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of polio, foot-and- mouth disease, floods.' A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACAshing-Giwa, Kemi
Summary: "A diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials-a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence-perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHKaufman, Amie
Summary: "When Jake and Marisol return unexpectedly to the World Between Blinks, they find that nothing is as they left it...With rebels like Amelia Earhart and Queen Nefertiti facing the threat of their hourglasses of memories being flipped, Jake and Marisol...must locate a mysterious item known as the Rocket. This unknown object is their only chance to defeat the Administrator-before everything that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAUColfer, Eoin
Summary: Eleven-year-old Juniper sets out on a wild adventure to find her mother and protect a public park just days before Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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Summary: In Rajasthan with her archaeologist parents Reeya Rai finds an ancient stepwell, with an underwater door bearing a mysterious symbol which may be the key to a legendary treasure--if she can come up with an invention and find it before her rival Elsie Acker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIRichards, Emilie
Summary: When her step-daughter steals money belonging to Amber, a woman who has since been evicted along with her teenage son, Cassie invites them to move in with her and as they each form friendships, Cassie discovers that Amber is trying to outrun her dark past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021