Vance, Anise
Summary: "A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands in this powerful, stirringly original debut novel. After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANHussain, Anika
Summary: Best friends Zara and Adnan navigate the twists and turns of fake dating, family dynamics, and cultural stereotypes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUSOza, Janika
Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZAScott, Anika
Summary: "Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScottMillner, Denene
Summary: "Join New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner as she explores the lives of three generations of women tied together by love, hope, dreams, ambition...and family secrets in this epic novel. Meet Grace: raised by her beloved grandmother in tension-filled, post-segregation Virginia, Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her grandmother. Shellshocked, she is shipped up North to live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILRissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISGray, Anissa
Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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Summary: "When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized victim in the fight against police brutality, Happi begins to question the idealized way her sister is remembered"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOUMina, Denise.
Summary: "Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINWilliams, Denise
Summary: "Love takes flight in three connected novellas set at an airport, from the acclaimed author of The Fastest Way to Fall. An airport pet groomer meets her frequent-flier crush and ends up in a fake-dating situation with a professional risk assessor who moonlights as a romance author. Two strangers share a romantic night together only to discover months later that they're professional rivals about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILAvila, Lorraine
Summary: "Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with José, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AVIWood, Alikay
Summary: Facing imminent death from a parasitic infection, three teenagers elect to spend their final days on a madcap adventure, and discover a lot about themselves along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOMina, Denise
Summary: Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2023
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Summary: Sixth-grader Sicily Jordan learns to use her voice and to find joy in who she is--a Black Panamanian fashionista who rocks her braids with pride--while confronting prejudice both in the classroom and at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURHunter, Denise
Summary: "This escapist, summery beach read about a woman who scripted her perfect boyfriend but hates the actor playing him in the on-screen adaptation is perfect for fans of romance, women's fiction, and Hallmark movies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2024
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Summary: When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINJaigirdar, Adiba
Summary: "Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts outthat she's in a relationship...with a girl her friends absolutely hate--Ishita 'Ishu' Dey. She's an academic overachiever who hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAIJaigirdar, Adiba
Summary: Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief, who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark yet--the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world. But she isn't interested in stealing from wealthy first-class passengers onboard. No, she's out for the ultimate prize: the Rubiyat, a one of a kind book encrusted with gems that's worth millions. Josefa can't score...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAINania, Jeff
Summary: "Olympic medalist Anna MacDonald comes home to Namekagon County to emcee the Great Wilderness Race as predators stalk the Northwoods. While occasional interactions with potentially dangerous animals are old hat for most residents, this changes when unpredictable behavior patterns make it unclear who is the hunter and who is the hunted. Sheriff John Cabrelli and the new Musky Falls chief of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feet Wet Writing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANGrabowski, Alina
Summary: "Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a bright young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP Lit, a Zando imprint 2024
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Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANADeRose, Kim
Summary: "Four high school girls take justice for their sexual assaults into their own hands by forming a secret witch coven and casting revenge spells on their attackers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DERTanaka, Candie
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, 17-yr-old Ichiro secretly enters a drag performance contest."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TANJames, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023