Metoui, Meriam
Summary: Stranded at the Wildwood Motel while on their spring break road trip, Mira and Layla discover eight people died in their room and set out to find the connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside Room 9.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC METChancy, Myriam J. A.
Summary: "From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families forever joined by country-and by long-held secrets-and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2024
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Summary: "At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAKaba, Mariame
Summary: "From New York Times Bestselling Author Mariame Kaba, a poignant, beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance between them: "Even though I'm away, My love is always here to stay. See you soon, Queenie. Love, Mama." Queenie loves living with Mama and Grandma Louise. Together, they go to the grocery store, eat ice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KABBenaron, Naomi.
Summary: Running the Rift follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his country's first Olympic medal winner in track. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a world that has become increasingly restrictive and violent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2012
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Benaron, Naomi
Summary: Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENMarias, Javier
Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARLockington, Mariama
Summary: While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOCSwarthout, Glendon
Summary: Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SWALockington, Mariama
Summary: On a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. Sadie feels safe. She's been struggling to manage her chronic anxiety, and is hopeful better times are ahead. When her girlfriend reveals some unexpected news, and the two witness a violent incident of police brutality, Sadie's whole world is upended in an instant. Not feeling safe anywhere, Sadie retreats inside her self. When her...
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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 LOCParker, Miriam (Miriam Rebecca)
Summary: Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school. But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION PARToews, Miriam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOEYoung, Miriam
Summary: Miss Suzy loves her home dearly but then four orphan squirrels turn up that need love too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parents' Magazine Press 1972
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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE YOUTur, Míriam Bonastre
Summary: When Dani and Dorian missed the bus to magic school, they never thought they'd wind up declared traitors to their own kind! Now, thanks to a series of mishaps, they are being chased by powerful magic families seeking the prophesied King of Witches and royals searching for missing princes. But they aren't alone. With a local troublemaker, a princess, and a teacher who can see the future on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC TURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction TurFredericks, Mariah
Summary: The atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring series character, Jane Prescott. In 1912, as New York reels from the news of the Titanic disaster, ladies' maid Jane Prescott travels to Long Island with the Benchley family. Their daughter Louise is to marry William Tyler, at their uncle and aunt's mansion; the Tylers are a glamorous, storied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREStewart, Mariah.
Summary: Former FBI agent Sam DelVecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative--and not a moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer has all the signs of a serial killer's work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona Summers shares details of two other killings with eerie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEStewart, Mariah.
Summary: Forced out of her job on the police force, detective Mallory Russo takes up a new career as a true-crime author, until she is asked to join a team of law enforcement specialists to investigate cold cases, a venture bankrolled by billionaire Robert Magellan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS STESwarthout, Glendon Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWACohen, Miriam
Summary: Jim's anxieties on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COHCohen, Miriam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1967
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social Emo Cohen 1967Young, Miriam
Summary: Miss Suzy, a squirrel, interrupts her Easter preparations to become a temporary mother to four little orphan squirrels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Winds Press 1980
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Summary: "Coming-of-age adventure story set in the North featuring a strong female lead, her Indigenous friend, and a cast of diverse dogs all in training for the daring Arctic Quest dog-sledding competition."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KORSchlein, Miriam.
Summary: When Little Raccoon asks his mother when she loves him the most, she finally answers "always right now."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SCHToews, Miriam
Summary: Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021