Dawson, Maddie
Summary: "Marnie McGraw is marrying the man of her dreams when she meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé's irascible matchmaking great-aunt who's dying. When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is shocked. She's even more astonished to find that she's inherited Blix's Brooklyn brownstone and all of Blix's unfinished 'projects' to follow in Blix's matchmaker footsteps"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAWHand, Cynthia
Summary: Refusing a job with the Society for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits, Jane Eyre heads to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for Mr. Rochester.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANMatson, Morgan
Summary: Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATDougherty, Brandi
Summary: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Inspired by Pixar Animation Studios latest film, The Good Dinosaur, this jacketed picture book features everyone's favorite new prehistoric characters and is complemented by stunning original artwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC DOUBowling, Dusti
Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BOWGino, Alex
Summary: "Middle-grade superstar author Alex Gino returns to the world they began with MELISSA and RICK with GREEN, the story of a non-binary middle-schooler named Green who comes into their own in no small part by fighting for gender-free casting in their school's production of THE WIZARD OF OZ" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GINJeffers, Oliver
Summary: While trying his best to help a penguin that has shown up at his door, a boy journeys all the way to the South Pole, only to realize that the penguin was never lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION JeffersCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JEFCane, Tina
Summary: "Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CANForman, Gayle
Summary: It's summer, and all ten-year-old Bug wants to do is go to the beach with her older brother and hang out with the interesting personalities around her Venice, California, home. But Danny is too big to want to spend time with her and Bug's mom is too busy. Fortunately, their neighbor Philip's nephew, Frankie, has come to visit. Bug's not too sure about hanging out with a boy at first, but when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FORMaldonado, Torrey
Summary: "Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MALSpringstubb, Tricia
Summary: Khalil lives in the upstairs apartment with his family, which is big and busy and noisy. Downstairs lives Mr. Hagerty, who is quiet. Khalil and Mr. Hagerty don't appear to have a lot in common, but hot summer days have a way of bringing people together. As Khalil looks for buried treasure in the yard, Mr. Hagerty tends to his garden. Both help each other navigate language -- whether it be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPRGino, Alex
Summary: Eleven-year-old Rick Ramsey has generally gone along with everybody, just not making waves, even though he is increasingly uncomfortable with his father's jokes about girls, and his best friend's explicit talk about sex; but now in middle school he discovers the Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities can express themselves--and maybe among them he can find new friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GINSumner, Jamie
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMKauffman, Rebecca
Summary: "A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife: When two families-one rich, one not-vacation together off the coast of South Carolina, little do they know that someone won't be returning home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAUSymes-Smith, Esme
Summary: Trapped in a rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train as knights, twelve-year-old nonbinary Callie, who dreams of becoming a knight, and their new friends find themselves embedded in an ancient war, but in order to defeat the threats outside the kingdom they must first defeat the bigotry within.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SYMDormer, Frank W.
Summary: Friends Tuna, Noodle, Margo, and new friend Ralph, share adventures and misadventures on the playground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021
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Summary: "Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDKann, Claire
Summary: "Joy is in love with Malcolm. Malcolm wants to date Summer. Summer is in love with love. And Fox is Summer's ex-boyfriend. Thirty, flirty, and asexual, Joy is secretly in love with her best friend, Malcolm, but she's never been brave enough to say so. When he unexpectedly announces that he's met the love of his life-and no, it's not Joy-she's heartbroken. Malcolm invites her on a weekend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANHarris, Rosie
Summary: "Now in her seventies and widowed for the past three years, Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping and she invites him in for a cup of tea, it marks the start of a slow-burning friendship. Mary's affection for Bill grows steadily, despite his failing health and repeated attempts to interfere by her scheming daughter-in-law. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARGamarra, Katalina
Summary: "Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she'd be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn't want to be: spending a week at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAMOsman, Richard
Summary: "Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim - the Thursday Murder Club - are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor - an old pal of Elizabeth's (or perhaps more than just a pal?) - arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2021