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Summary: A captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSmith, Zadie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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Summary: "At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she is--a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don't agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood's latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn't amused. Instead, she's determined to make sure he doesn't bother her again. Only she's not sure exactly who he is. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: Poor yet resilient, the boy lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. Always on the move across the South, living a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes, one step ahead of the law. But everything is about to change. The boy will be turning sixteen, and he will need to understand his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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Summary: Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her Southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced Southerners struggle to make sense of the city's sophistication.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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Summary: Sarah Walters knows she doesn't really fit in at the Cotillion Training School, that she'll never live up to the legacy of her mother and grandmother as a Camellia - the society for proper young Southern belles. As soon as she's out of school, Sarah and a group of friends forsake the South for the bright lights of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CROFitch, Janet
Summary: Pregnant and adrift in the countryside amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War, Marina returns to a decimated Petrograd, where her work caring for war orphans inspires her emergence as a poet. -
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITFitch, Janet
Summary: When Ingrid, a brilliant but obsessed poet, is sent to prison for murder, her only child Astrid must find a place for herself as she journeys through a series of foster homes. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FITWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman 2020Lee, Marie Myung-Ok
Summary: After moving to a new suburb, a Korean American teen must fight to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community in this tragic story of bigotry and gun violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023