Pandian, Gigi
Summary: "Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: Their families have been in business together for years: Quinn Berkowitz's parents are wedding planners (she's the harpist), and Tarek' Mansour's own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email-- and he left for college without a response. When he shows up as a waiter at the first wedding of the summer, they clash immediately....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SOLEady, Antwan
Summary: A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EADBlackburne, Livia
Summary: "Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLALee, Emery
Summary: "Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FORDass, Sarah
Summary: "She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, Russel Messina, and will one day inherit leadership of the family's masquerade band, Grandeur. Her classmate, the popular social media influencer, Brandon Richards, is the bane of her existence. Everything about him irks her, from his annoying nickname for Tess ("Boop") to his association with David,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Lindsay Cooper is about to start middle school. In her free time, she works at her family's restaurant, The Park View, handing out the world's most delicious donuts at the Donut Dreams counter. Her grandmother started the counter as a way to send Lindsay's dad to college, and Lindsay wants to use her job the same way--to make her dream of going to school far away from her small town a reality....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SIMBennett Wealer, Sara
Summary: "Elaine's home is...different. It's a funeral home that has been in her family since the 1800s--and it's why everybody calls her Funeral Girl. Everyone assumes Elaine will take over the business someday--everyone except Elaine. When Xander, a new boy with a passion for ghost-hunting, arrives in town, Elaine feels an instant spark. He's daring and spontaneous. With Xander, she feels herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEAForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC FORMelleby, Nicole
Summary: On a quest to become someone's favorite Ali-O'Connor, ten-year-old middle child Marina enlists Boom, her new neighbor, to help make a documentary about her, but when things do not go according to plan, Marina begins to wonder if she will ever feel like she belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MELDugan, Jennifer
Summary: "Two teen girls, former best friends and one-time lovers, go on a summer road trip in an ice cream truck"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUGHeron, Farah
Summary: "When seventeen-year-old aspiring designer Tahira Janmohammad's coveted fashion internship falls through, her parents have a Plan B. Tahira will work in her aunt's boutique in the small town of Bakewell, the flower capital of Ontario. It's only for the summer, and she'll get the experience she needs for her college application. Plus her best friend is coming along. It won't be that bad. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2021
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Summary: "A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate, and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRMurphy, Dwyer
Summary: "Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in this Casablanca-infused heist novel. Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, knows his real job: moving people on the run from powerful enemies. The family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Washington, Bryan
Summary: From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss. Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WASDeLuca, Jen
Summary: "Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Lindy Blanchard's family pecan farm is known county-wide, but it's the goodies her grandmother sells at their store, the Nut House, that really bring in the crowds--until someone turns one of her tasty treats deadly... The "Most Original Pecan Treat" contest at the Ag Fair is the talk of Riverville, Texas, especially when it's clear that Miss Amelia Blanchard's Heavenly Texas Pecan Caviar will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Trigiani 2010Deveraux, Jude
Summary: The award-winning author of "A Knight in Shining Armor" presents a historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community. "It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas. Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVLee, Elizabeth
Summary: "Lindy Blanchard has devoted five years of her life to saving the pecan trees on her family's farm--but someone is going to deadly lengths to see that she fails..."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEO'Connor, Carlene
Summary: Twenty-two-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother. It's been a rough year for Siobhon, but it's about to get rougher. One morning they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. It's up to Siobhon to solve the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY OCOTekavec, Heather
Summary: After doing so many good deeds, Arnold, a humble kid in a family of superheroes, discovers that his superpower is being a Super Nice Guy, in this endearing and entertaining story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TEKRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Working alongside his mother and brother restoring a historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland, Owen Montgomery falls for a childhood friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2012