Shafrir, Doree
Summary: "Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business--in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHADoret, Thomas
Summary: After eleven-year-old Cyril's single father rejects him, the compassion of a stranger who agrees to take care of him helps him move forward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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Yorke, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YORBrouwers, Dorien
Summary: "A metaphorical journey about having courage and taking risks, weathering the tides and storms of life's challenges, and discovering new possibilities for one's future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Brouwers 2021Darke, Minnie
Summary: When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. To Justine, anyway. Especially when she learns Nick is an astrological devotee, whose decisions are guided by the stars, and more specifically, by the horoscopes in his favorite magazine. The same magazine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1999
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Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINYorke, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YORHansen, Dörte
Summary: "All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty farmhouse she arrived in as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can't seem to let it go. 60 years later, her niece Anne suddenly shows up at her door with her small son -- Anne has fled the trendy Hamburg neighborhood she never fit into when her relationship implodes. Vera and Anne are strangers to each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHorse, Harry.
Summary: When the Christmas Rabbit makes his wish come true and brings him the beautiful red sled from the store window, Little Rabbit wants it all to himself until he learns that even the best gift is better when shared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2007
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE HORRorke, Robert
Summary: "Nicky Flynn is coming of age in 1970's Brooklyn, riding into his sophomore year at St. Michaels, the last hurrah of the Diocesan school system. A budding young actor, Nicky is at once sensitive, resiliant, exasperated, and keenly observant - especially when it comes to his father, Patrick. Undeniably enigmatic, and coasting on vanity, charm, and desperation, "Himself," as Nicky calls his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RORScarfarotti, Lorie
Summary: "Over the course of a week, thirteen-year-old track & field runner, Josie Tomaselli, confronts multiple challenges with humour, confusion, fear, "lady balls," and the support of her pre-race music playlist. As the big race approaches she's missing the support of her father, who is dying of cancer. While at first she refuses to acknowledge the possibility of losing him, in the end she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCABorja, Lenore
Summary: "Alice Daniels has a problem. Her reflection keeps misbehaving when she looks in the mirror--and the longer she ignores it, the harder it tries to get her attention. On her eighteenth birthday, she learns why: she is a huntress, someone gifted with the power to enter mirrors and the magical world that exists beyond. But with this power comes immense responsibility, for in the Mirror Realm lurks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SparkPress 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BORDorst, Doug
Summary: "A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2013
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Summary: "Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can't seem to escape her past ... or forget the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Langdon 2018Summary: A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNIForde, Patricia
Summary: Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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Summary: When the Chipmunks find a baby bird that's fallen from its nest, Alvin and the bird create an unlikely friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FORGonzález, Borja
Summary: "In Borja González's stunning graphic novel, two parallel stories reflect and intertwine in a tale of youthful dreams and desires. In 1856, Teresa, a young aristocrat, is more interested in writing avantgarde horror poetry than making a suitable marriage. In 2016, three teenage girls, Gloria, Laura, and Cristina, want to start a punk band called the Black Holes. They have everything they need:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020
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Summary: When The Flash and Superman decide to race each other around the world, they don't let the super-villains creating mayhem along the way slow them down. Because the rest of the Justice League is there to help! From Metropolis to China and everywhere in between, this Super Hero team is always quick to come to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2018
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Summary: Four years ago, I lied. I stood in front of the police, my friends and family, and made up a story, my best one yet. And all of them believed me. I wasn't surprised. Telling stories is what made me famous. Fifteen bestsellers. Millions of fans. Fame and fortune. Now, I have one last story to write. It'll be my best one yet, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave them stunned and gasping for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alessandra Torre 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TORAaron, Jason
Summary: "Mjolnir lies on the moon, unable to be lifted! Something dark has befallen the God of Thunder, leaving him unworthy for the first time ever! But when Frost Giants invade Earth, the hammer will be lifted - and a mysterious woman will be transformed into an all-new version of the mighty Thor! Who is this new Goddess of Thunder? Not even Odin knows, but she may be Earth's only hope against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Marvel Worldwide, a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 THOForte, Lauren
Summary: When her favorite book is returned to the library instead of renewed, Olivia painstakingly combs the library's shelves in the hope of reclaiming the book before someone else checks it out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FORSmith, Dodie
Summary: The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Over six turbulent months, she fills three diaries with sharply funny yet poignant entries and manages to find herself hopelessly in love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle" and the heart of the reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2003