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White, Roseanna M.

Summary: "Sabina Mancari never questioned her life as the daughter of Chicago's leading mob boss until bullets tear apart her world and the man she thought she loved turns out to be an undercover Prohibition agent. Ambushes, bribes, murder, prostitution -- all her life, her father sheltered her from his crimes, but now she can no longer turn away from the truth. Maybe Lorenzo, the fiancé who barely paid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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Frederick, Heather Vogel.

Summary: "Twelve-year-old Truly Lovejoy's family moves to a small town to take over a bookstore. Soon, she has to solve two mysteries involving a missing book and an undelivered letter"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRE

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There s Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCC

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCC

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McCall-Smith 2022

Bryan, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press, LLC 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRY

Ryan, Renee

Summary: "Having grown up on the mean streets of nineteenth-century London, Caroline St. James is used to fighting to survive. So when her beloved mother suddenly dies, the scrappy twenty-two-year-old sails to New York to settle the family score with her grandfather who had turned a cold shoulder to her mother's suffering"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RYA

Lockhart, E.

Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now. David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Quinn, Julia

Summary: Meet Our Hero ... Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ... and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine ... All the town agreed:...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUI

Wang, Andrea

Summary: "A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WAN

Walther, K. L.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Even though she is still grieving over her sister's death, eighteen-year-old Meredith Fox plans to reconnect with family and friends when they gather on Martha's Vineyard for her cousin's big wedding--unless she gets distracted by a week-long game of Assassin and a handsome groomsman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Yanagihara, Hanya

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Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015

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Dessen, Sarah.

Summary: Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DES

Gerber, Alyson

Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed Braced comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework, but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head, but sometimes she can't help herself. Other kids are starting to notice. When Clea fails one too many tests, her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022

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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction Gerber 2022

Roberts, Nora.

Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Pearson, Allison

Summary: Kate Reddy is facing her 50th birthday. Her children have turned into impossible teenagers; her mother and in-laws are in precarious health; and her husband is having a midlife crisis that leaves her desperate to restart her career after years away from the workplace. Once again, Kate is scrambling to keep all the balls in the air in a juggling act.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Pearson 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PEA

Fox, Helena

Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven. When he suddenly disappears, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOX

Burg, Ann E.

Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUR

Kingsbury, Karen

Summary: "A storm builds as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs, and there are dark currents of conflict coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris. At the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIN

Atinuke

Summary: "Too Small Tola lives in an apartment with her clever sister, Moji; her big brother, Dapo; and Grandmommy, who is very bossy. In the first of three endearing new adventures, Tola is sized just right to wriggle under the bed and rescue Grandmommy's prized possession when it goes missing. Her savvy and math skills save the day when Grandmommy gets sick, and when the family can't afford new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATI

James, Simon

Summary: "When Stanley's Mom has to go away for work, Stanley decides to take off, too--all the way to Mars. Can the Martian who takes his place on Earth get by in Stanley's family even in Mom's absence?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JAM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAM

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAM

Djanikian, Ariel

Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DJA

Kingsbury, Karen

Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter wants to become a police officer. His mother, who lost her own father on September 11, objects, but Tommy's father, Luke, is proud of his son's decision. Tommy is also planning to ask his girlfriend, Annalee Miller, to marry him someday. However, she hasn't been feeling well--and tests reveal the unthinkable. While his girlfriend begins the fight of her life,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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Witherspoon, Reese

Summary: Busy Betty has always been busy. Every day she wakes up with a million questions and a billion ideas! And today she has an amazing idea: she's throwing her mom a birthday party. Shhh . . . It's a surprise! Then Betty and her best friend, Mae, have the best idea of all: What if they threw Mom a circus surprise party?! It will be the greatest day in the history of the universe! Everything is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIT

Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. April 1912. Twelve-year-old Harp Delaney is an unusual child, quiet and intelligent far beyond her years. She would rather spend her days in the library of the grand Georgian house that she sees as her home than playing on the streets with other children. Her mother, Rose, is the reserved and ladylike housekeeper at the Cliff House. The local women envy her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

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