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Best wishes 1 Between earth & sky 2 Between earth and sky 1 Between earth and sky 2Cooper, Thomas
Summary: "Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses--a moribund motel and shabby amusement park--endangered but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOFord, Jamie
Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORPan, Emily X. R.
Summary: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother committed suicide, she turned into a bird and flew to her native Taiwan. On her journey to find her mother, Leigh must face her family's past and move towards a future of forgiveness and love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PANThao, Dustin
Summary: Julie Clarke, de diecisiete años, tiene todo su futuro planeado: marcharse de su pequeño pueblo junto a su novio, Sam, ir a la universidad en la ciudad, pasar un verano en Japón. Pero entonces Sam muere. Y todo cambia. Desesperada por escucharle una vez más, Julie llama al móvil de Sam para escuchar la grabación de su buzón de voz. Y Sam coge el teléfono.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones Kiwiw 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH THAAboulela, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARAllen, Sarah Addison
Summary: "Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit the building, alongside the human tenants, and imbue it with an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AllenHetherington, Nydia
Summary: "Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HETCameron, Sophie
Summary: "Ten days after Jaya Mackenzie's mum dies, angels start falling from the sky. Smashing down to earth at extraordinary speeds, wings bent, faces contorted, not a single one has survived. Hysteria mounting with every Being that drops, Jaya's father uproots the family to Edinburgh intent on catching one alive. But Jaya can't stand this obsession and, struggling to make sense of her mother's sudden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CAMRoanhorse, Rebecca
Summary: "The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction RoanhorseSegovia, Sofía
Summary: "From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGKawaguchi, Toshikazu
Summary: In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWSerle, Rebecca
Summary: When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC SERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SERMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: When Becca's best friend, Hailey, says she doesn't want to be friends anymore, Becca is devastated. But then Becca receives a mysterious package in the mail with a beautiful bracelet and a note that tells her to make a wish. So Becca puts on the bracelet-- why not, right?--and wishes to have friends. Lots of friends. So many friends. And just like that, the magic works. Suddenly, EVERYONE wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Becca Singer is having the Worst Day Ever. She is friendless and alone since Harper dumped her. Then a box arrives in the mail, containing a bracelet, with a note telling Becca to make a wish. She puts on the bracelet and asks to have lots of friends. Suddenly everyone wants to be Becca's BFF-- even her teachers and her own mom! Is this wish a curse? -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment-- and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OYEReyes, Dolores
Summary: Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYQuick, Matthew
Summary: "Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero -- everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction QuickHudson, Genevieve (Genevieve Katherine)
Summary: "A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new 'home' - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion--seemingly intertwined--permeate everything. While his parents don't know what to make of an American South pining for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUDVan Niekerk, Colleen
Summary: South Africa, 1994. Against a backdrop of apartheid and racial violence, Yolanda Petersen returns to the land of her youth at the behest of her mother. While there Yolanda longs to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Ingrid, the product of an illegal mixed-race affair with a white man. But Ingrid is missing, and as Yolanda quickly discovers, she isn't the only woman in Cape Town desperate to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little a 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANBurges, Audrey
Summary: "A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges. From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old recluse Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide. Myra's stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURRoanhorse, Rebecca
Summary: "In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and is set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Roanhorse 2021Fawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: "In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FAWLinden, Rachel
Summary: "Lolly Blanchard's life only seems to give her lemons. Ten years ago, after her mother's tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant in order to keep her family's struggling Seattle diner afloat and care for her younger sister and grieving father. Now, a decade later, she dutifully whips up the diner's famous lemon meringue pies each morning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022