Aboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMusariri, Blessing
Summary: "Mati's family is reeling from the death of Mati's mother. Her Baba has drawn into himself, her sister Chichi is rebelling, and her young brother Tana is desperate for love and normalcy.When Chichi pulls her worst stunt yet, Baba uproots the family from their home in England for an extended camping holiday in their native Zimbabwe. Along for the trip is Meticais, a fabulously attired...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUSMatheson, Richard
Summary: Wounded WWI American soldier Alex White has a frightening encounter in the forest near the pastoral English village of Gatford. His encounter leads him into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATLang, Ruth Emmie
Summary: Raised by wolves after being orphaned in childhood, Weylyn Grey, a man with astonishing powers, is evaluated by the people who care or wonder about him, including a woman who falls in love with him after he saves her from an angry wolf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lang 2017Bauermeister, Erica
Summary: "Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. The Scent Keeper explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal hidden truths, lead us to the person we...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berry, Julie
Summary: The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Berry 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERAnaya, Rudolfo A.
Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANAOksanen, Sofi
Summary: "When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKSIvey, Eowyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION IVESolomon, Rivers
Summary: "Vern gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong-not with them, but with her own body...A genre-bending work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the history of American racism"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLIvey, Eowyn.
Summary: "Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Books 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2012Rusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019