Bijan, Donia
Summary: "When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIJMadonna
Summary: A boy learns a lesson about the destructive power of gossip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Callaway 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MADCates, Donny
Summary: In GODCOUNTRY, readers meet Emmett Quinlan, an old widower rattled by dementia. Emmett isn't just a problem for his children--his violent outbursts are more than the local cops can handle. When a tornado levels his home--as well as the surrounding West Texas town--a restored Quinlan rises from the wreckage. An enchanted sword at the eye of the storm gives him more than a sound mind and body,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CATCates, Donny
Summary: "Absolute Carnage rocks the world of Venom! With the serial-killer symbiote Carnage on the loose, Venom must protect his son, Dylan- at all costs! But as longtime Venomaniacs know, they aren't the only two symbiotes around... and that only means that the bodies are piling higher than ever before! For weeks, Carnage has been hunting down former symbiote hosts and killing them. And the next name...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VENSmith, Danna
Summary: "Each haiku in this lift-the-flap board book will have readers guessing the animal it describes--with the answer revealed under a flap on each page! With lovely text, sweet illustrations, and cute creatures, this lyrical and interactive book is a joy to read!"-- provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Scuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SMI BOARDDonne, Alexa
Summary: Princess Leonie Kolburg, aged nineteen and heir to a faded European spaceship, enters the engagement season hoping only to save her family from financial ruin, but is soon falling for her first, rejected love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONDonne, Alexa
Summary: The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONDonne, Alexa
Summary: Not long after seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis arrives to live with her estranged grandmother in a coastal California town, the high school homecoming queen is found dead and Cecelia, fearing a copycat killer is on the loose, throws herself into the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONMcCahan, Erin
Summary: "The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the mysterious girl next door"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCDelle Donne, Elena
Summary: Having shot up to six feet tall over the summer, seventh-grader Elle not only has trouble controlling her limbs on the basketball court, she dreads the upcoming school cotillion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DONMann, Dionna L.
Summary: Madeline is on the ski team with her twin brother Parker (who goofs around and enjoys himself), and their friend Sarah, but Maddie cannot help comparing herself to Sarah, the fastest skier on the team, and it is starting to make her angry and spoil her fun--until her father warns her that her attitude could cause problems and ruin her friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANCopies Available at East Bay
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Summary: "A group of fish play follow the leader in their ocean habitat. Count the fish from one to ten as each joins the game, then count back down to one when the leader gulps a sea spider and sets off an unfortunate chain reaction (swallow the leader!)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMISmith, Danna
Summary: Introducing each car of a freight train during a nighttime adventure, this board book invites little ones to find sleepy animals throughout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
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Summary: Zoe's dribbling and passing skills improve at wheelchair basketball camp, but she gets frustrated when she cannot make a basket--will her new friends be able to help her meet her goal?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANBarnes, Djuna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBecker, Bonny
Summary: A little cloud moves through the sky among the other clouds, wishing to be big enough to make a real cloud shape before realizing that she is capable of making something different.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC BECChaviano, Daina
Summary: Far from her family, her history, and her home in Cuba, Cecilia seeks refuge in a bar in the Little Havana section of Miami, where a mysterious woman's fascinating tale keeps her returning night after night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADunbar, Dayna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNSummary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real United States. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EASCasey, Donis
Summary: Boynton Oklahoma's Alafair Tucker finds time while caring for relatives sick with the Spanish flu to investigate the deaths of two neighbors. With death so commonplace, most have assumed that influenza was the cause, but Alafair suspects foul play. Without the aid of the only witness, a young girl stunned into silence, It is up to Alafair and the new town doctor to discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASKempadoo, Oonya.
Summary: In Trinidad, a young woman recently interested in writing and her European boyfriend provide care for their friend, a closeted homosexual, who is dying of AIDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEMBonné, Mirko
Summary: Describes the quest of Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914 attempt to be the first man to cross the Antarctic on foot, with sixty-nine sled dogs, a crew of twenty-eight, and a seventeen-year-old stowaway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONBrecon, Connah
Summary: There is a Thing that a little girl would like to know better, but she is not very brave and does not know how to ask, so she tries sending an invitation, trapping the Thing, and more with no luck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014