Powell, Padgett.
Summary: About the coming of age on an undevelped strip of coast between Savannah and Charleston.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWFrayn, Michael.
Summary: When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAKyle, Aryn.
Summary: When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles--a depressed, bedridden mother; a reticent, overworked father; and a run-down horse ranch. As the hottest summer in fifteen years unfolds and bills pile up, Alice is torn between dreams of escaping the loneliness of her duty-filled life and a longing to help her father mend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KYLKyle, Aryn.
Summary: Sixth grader Alice Winston is having a rough year. Her older sister elopes. Her depressed mother won't get out of bed. Her father struggles to save their faltering horse ranch. And Alice's school pal drowns. Caught in a dizzying adult world, Alice soon faces challenges that threaten to shatter her dreams and her family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KylErian, Alicia.
Summary: Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIChancellor, Bryn
Summary: Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chancellor 2017Klas, Benjamin
Summary: "Jeremiah just wants a normal summer with his dad, but it's clear that isn't happening. His dad just moved to an apartment near downtown Minneapolis to live with his new boyfriend, Michael. Michael wears shorts too short, serves weird organic foods, and is constantly nagging Jeremiah to watch out for potholes and to stay hydrated. Worst of all Michael rides the Uni-cycle. Okay, it's a bicycle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One Elm Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLADoan, Amy Mason
Summary: A decade after an ill-fated affair ends her career, a woman attends the wedding of a childhood friend while coming to terms with her feelings for the person for whom she gave up everything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOADoan, Amy Mason
Summary: Laura and Casey were once inseparable, until a shocking betrayal sent Laura running into a new life, leaving Casey and a first love in her wake. But the past is impossible to escape, and now, after seventeen years away, Laura is pulled home and into a reunion with Casey she can't resist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOACrane, Genevieve Sly
Summary: "Margot is dead. There's a rumor she died because she couldn't take the pressure of being a pledge. You may not ask what happened to her. It's not your business. But it wasn't a suicide, if you're wondering. Spring Fling will not be cancelled. The deposit is non-refundable. And Margot would have wanted the sisterhood to continue in her absence, if only to protect her sisters secrets: Shannon is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAMosher, Howard Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSHollinghurst, Alan.
Summary: 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens. An innocent in matters of politics and money, he becomes caught up in the Feddins' world: its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obssession with beauty--a prize as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLAtta, Dean
Summary: The son of a film director, Mack grows up on set and into a hopeless romantic -- one who falls hard for the handsome and popular Karim, who eventually notices him back, right before Mack has to relocate to Scotland. Not wanting to lose his first love, Mack asks Karim to be long-distance, but while they're trying, fearless and confident Finlay shows up on set, and Mack's world turns upside down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATTDoyle, Brian
Summary: "Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers to call it, like the Native Americans once did, Wy'east). He is entering high school, adulthood on the horizon not far off in distance, and contemplating a future away from his mother, father, and his precocious younger sister. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYYun, Erin
Summary: Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fabled Films Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YUNBryan, J. G.
Summary: As seniors in high school during the late 70s in SoCal's San Fernando Valley, Douglas and his friends explore the city of Los Angeles, get stoned, tour the Manson murders locations, obsess over girls, and go to prom in powder blue tuxes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYDoyle, Brian
Summary: "On the last day of summer, a young college grad moved to Chicago and rented a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lived there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment manager, and many other riveting souls, not to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016