Summary: Amid the cultural upheaval of 1950s India, Lata is torn between romance and responsibility, while her wayward brother-in-law Maan has a perilous affair with a glamorous courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUIRania
Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RanStojic, Manya.
Summary: The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOStojic, Manya.
Summary: As snow approaches and begins to fall, Moose, Bear, Fox, and other forest creatures prepare for winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANMaljartschuk, Tanja
Summary: A Biography of a Chance Miracle explores the life of Lena, a young girl growing up in the somewhat vapid, bureaucracy-ridden and nationalistic Western Ukrainian city of San Francisco. Lena is a misfit from early childhood due to her unwillingness to scorn everything Russian, her propensity for befriending forlorn creatures, her aversion to the status quo, and her fear of living a stupid and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cadmus Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANGuerrero, Tanya
Summary: Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUEHuff, Tanya.
Summary: When former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds out why space pirates needed salvage operator Craig Ryder, she calls in the Marines to get him back--and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFSimpson, Tonya
Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIMYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YANHuff, Tanya
Summary: When Auntie Catherine warns the Gale family of an approaching asteroid, Charlotte "Charlie" Gale turns to her supernaturally complicated family for help and soon discovers that the asteroid is the least of her problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: The military adventure continues in this brand new entry in Tanya Huff's bestselling Confederation series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Charlotte, a Wild Power, partners with a family of Selkies to fight offshore oil drilling while her formidable Aunt Catherine is hired by the oil company to steal the Selkies' sealskins.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFCarver, Tania.
Summary: Stumbling upon signs of an insane serial killer, Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito discover a cage constructed of human bones containing a feral child who the killer is determined to reclaim.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARZamorsky, Tania.
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marine's marine. She's survived more deadly encounters--and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive--than anyone in the Corps. Unexpectedly pulled from battle, Torin finds herself in an underground POW camp that shouldn't exist, where her fellow marine prisoners seem to have lost all will to escape. Now, Torin must fight her way not only out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFKukafka, Danya
Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Lucinda Hayes is found dead in her sleepy Colorado suburb, the secret lives of three people connected to her are revealed: the social outcast who loved her from afar, the jaded girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating her death"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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Summary: "Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die--he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women--a mother, a sister, a homicide detective--we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Criminologist Marina Esposito enters a deadly race against time after her house is set on fire, her husband winds up in a coma, and her baby daughter is kidnapped.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARJames, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023