Enriquez, Mariana
Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRSummary: Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALLMeyer, Marissa
Summary: A collection of Lunar chronicles stories explore how Cinder arrived in New Beijing, how Wolf became a brooding soldier, and when Princess Winter and Jacin realized their destinies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYFiorato, Marina.
Summary: Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to Louis XIV of France to protect his secret daughter. In the present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOFiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague--and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIODahlan, Sarina.
Summary: "After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of ''Imagine'' and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather - and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHGabriel, Marius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GabriMakiya, Kanan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKMarinca, Anamaria
Summary: Set during the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates have twenty-four hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for an illegal abortion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUCall, Marina
Summary: What if you had always dreamed of traveling and suddenly you received some money to make this happen? Oscar Santos embarks on a train and begins his journey eastbound. Leaving his native Portugal, he enters Spain and meets Daniel, upending his plans for a solo journey . These two unlikely characters become friends quickly and soon discover there is much more to learn on their travels than mere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Call of Eden Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALFiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them together again?When nineteen year old Beatrice is brought to live at her uncle's court in Sicily to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIOEndicott, Marina
Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDKeegan, Marina
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.609 KEEAzad, Nafiza
Summary: Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit who died saving her whenshe was four years old, and when one of the most important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the affairs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AZABiaggio, Maryka
Summary: Standing trial for extortion in 1917, beautiful con artist May Dugas recounts her version of the events that led to her arrest, from her reluctant residence in a famous Chicago bordello and her insinuation into high society to her world travels as a seductress and blackmailer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIALockington, Mariama
Summary: On a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. Sadie feels safe. She's been struggling to manage her chronic anxiety, and is hopeful better times are ahead. When her girlfriend reveals some unexpected news, and the two witness a violent incident of police brutality, Sadie's whole world is upended in an instant. Not feeling safe anywhere, Sadie retreats inside her self. When her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCLucier, Makiia
Summary: When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCAzad, Nafiza
Summary: After Paheli escapes a terrible fate, a magical boy gives her access to the Between, allowing her to collect other women of color, hurt by men, and lead them when the boy is in peril. Paheli was once betrayed by her mother and sold to a man in exchange for a favor. When Paheli escapes, she runs headlong into a boy with stars in his eyes. This boy, as battered as she is, tosses Paheli a box of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AZALucier, Makiia
Summary: "In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope has gone, the tale comes with a warning. Every wish demands a price. Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024