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Boarding schools Boarding schools Fiction Gambling Fiction Internes Romans, nouvelles, etc Internet personalities Comic books, strips, etc Internet personalities Fiction Japanese Americans Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Fiction Vampires Fiction World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction Young adult fictionHamilton, Ian
Summary: Investigating the theft of fifty million dollars from one of the richest men in the Philippines, forensic accountant and martial arts master Ava Lee teams up with her Triad-connected partner, Uncle, to track leads to the illegal gambling dens of Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMBernstein, Gaia
Summary: "Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 BERColgan, Jenny
Summary: "Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Determined to become Internet stars, two prehistoric creatures -- Trilobite and Amber, a walking whale -- face off against a host of creatures vying for fame and fortune, using their newfound skills to take the online world by storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2023
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Summary: "In battle for the Bird, Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes the reader inside Twitter's everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world's most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey's triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @realDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 WAGWolff, Tracy
Summary: "No one survived the last battle unscathed. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don't recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I'm not sure I'll ever break through. Now war is coming, and we're not ready. We're going to need an army to have any hope of winning. But first, there are questions about my ancestors that need answers. Answers that might just reveal who the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing 2022
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Summary: Returning to Katmere Academy, the Circle is caught in a power play and the Vampire Court fights for leverage while Hudson and Jaxon vie to make themselves the most important person to Grace--one with secrets that appeal to her mind and the other with the love that has captured her heart. Meanwhile they all face an unspeakable evil and possibly the ultimate sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOLColgan, Jenny
Summary: "It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark. She's delighted to leave the city behind and start her new teaching job, but what will it mean for her now-long-distance relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend, Stan? Simone is excited and nervous: she's won...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: "Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 PARHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Look out for Little Women-soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Streep! Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of Jo March and her former students concludes with this beautiful keepsake edition of Jo's Boys, the final novel in the Little Women Collection! Ten years after Jo opened a school for boys, the little men have grown up and left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENWiggins, Marianne
Summary: Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGCopies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGTobin, Paul
Summary: "Layne Green is a social media sensation of a cook. He's selected to compete on a reality TV show called Voyage de Gourmet - a globe-trotting foodie adventure. However, his partner is his former best friend, Jiang-Mi Pipper, someone that he really wronged with some of his posts. Can the two find forgiveness, flavor, and themselves on this journey?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick for Mad Cave Studios, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TOBAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AlcSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIGiles, L. R. (Lamar R.)
Summary: Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GILMezrich, Ben
Summary: Follows a group of hard-partying frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local Missoula bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world--and who became fugitives on the run after the U.S. Department of Justice went after them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.412 MEZTorres, J.
Summary: "When a boy struggles after moving to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, baseball shows him another way to approach life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TORGrotenstein, Jonathan
Summary: Traces the rise of the world's most competitive online poker players, profiling a group of former college students who banded together through online communication networks to organize a multi-million-dollar winning team in Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.412 GROSteel, Danielle
Summary: "A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers. After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEInouye Huey, Emily
Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOFaulkner, Matt
Summary: A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022