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Summary: It's wintertime in the Hamptons, where Scott and his wife, Elise, have come to be with her terminally ill father, Victor, to await the inevitable. As weeks turn to months, their daily routine--Elise at the hospital with her father, Scott pretending to work and drinking Victor's booze--only highlights their growing resentment and dissatisfaction with the usual litany of unhappy marriages: work,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBurian, Natalka
Summary: "In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie's arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother Cello. But before they can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURWatase, Yuu
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shōgakkan 1993
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN JAPSummary: In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn't find the missing girl, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman, and his own path to redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRIWatase, Yuu
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shōgakkan 1992
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN JAPDeaon, Natashia
Summary: "Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in bya caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEOGhent, Natale
Summary: In Ontario, Canada, in 1977, twelve-year-old Nat and his sisters find that owning, training, and caring for a pony they acquired for free makes it easier to cope with the poverty they have faced since their father abandoned them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GHENatera, Cleyvis
Summary: "An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATChetwynd, Catana
Summary: Whether it be moving in together, the reality of facing time apart, or even officially committing to one another, there are momentous steps in any relationship. Chetwynd's collection of comic strips captures the honest, playful, and relatable snapshots of romantic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHEHernandez, Natalia
Summary: For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if they are found and brought before them it will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HERSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SYLSummary: Detective Maiku Hama navigates the Yokohama underworld with super cool threads and two-fisted street smarts. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he's in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant on the threshold of Yokohama's gutter, Hama's client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOSAndriamirado, Natacha
Summary: Worried that his reptilian ferocity will scare his friends, Fossil the crocodile prefers peace and quiet and being alone, but his friends insist that Fossil play with them anyway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDAlterici, Natasha
Summary: "Aydis is a viking, a warrior, an outcast, and a self-proclaimed heathen. Aydis is friend to the talking horse Saga, rescuer of the immortal Valkyrie Brynhild, and battler of demons and fantastic monsters. Aydis is a woman. Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, she is on a mission to end the oppressive reign of the god-king Odin."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vault Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HEABell, Natasha
Summary: An abducted woman held against her will in a room suffers tortuous worries about her husband and children, who, in the wake of unsettling evidence, are led to believe she has been killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBouchard, Natasha
Summary: "Elastigirl is a Super who bends and stretches to fight crime. Can she stop the evil Screenslaver from destroying the city?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Bouchard 2018Bouchard, Natasha
Summary: Woody goes on a mission to save Bonnie's newest toy--Forky, a toy she created using a fork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: Elf brothers Ian and Barley must work together to finish a spell that will allow them to save their father when only half of him appears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BOUBouchard, Natasha
Summary: Elsa meets the spirits of nature who live in the Enchanted Forest --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: "New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LesterPreston, Natasha
Summary: While investigating the disappearance of one of their classmates, Piper and Hazel are kidnapped and taken to a building designed to keep them locked away, where every room is a method of torture and a test of survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2019
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Summary: "Ju-Girl's favorite days are the ones spent with Granddad in his garage, fixing cars and hearing stories about his old blue pickup. Granddad used to drive the blue pickup all over the island, bringing happiness to many. And now it just sits in the driveway. One day, Ju-Girl asks Granddad if he'd ever fix it, and he's unsure at first. But the pair soon finds out just what it takes to restore the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "In a quiet Italian town after World War Two, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is a constant concern to her obsessive, hypochondriac mother. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family, who own the textile factory that dominates the town. Over the course...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GINSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When Abuela comes to visit from Peru, she brings a suitcase full of treasures and her granddaughter learns that home is not just a place, but the love between family no matter the distance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024