Watson, Renée
Summary: "Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start thinking about the future--and not just how to prank her brother, Ray! During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for the future, for her generation. She wonders who she wants to be and what kind of person her family hopes she becomes. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATWatson, Renaee
Summary: The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATMeloy, Colin.
Summary: When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MELMeloy, Colin
Summary: In the aftermath of a young's girl's midnight seance that awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MELKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "When Maddie West discovers that she was adopted as an embryo and may have a sister, she feels betrayed, angry, and confused. Maddie moves away, leaving her job, fiancé, and family. Dawson Gage is mourning the death of his best friend, London Quinn. Then London's mother reveals she and her husband donated a frozen embryo decades ago, meaning that London might have a sibling. When Dawson finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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Summary: Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he's known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world--Maddie had a sister she never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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Summary: In 1926, eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis seeks to leave her strict grandparents in Portland and reunite with her singer mother in San Francisco, so when she hears that her class is sending a doll to Japan by way of San Francisco, she seizes her chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARFrench, Wendy.
Summary: Claire McLeod's peaceful life in Portland, Oregon, is turned upside down by the arrival of her tyrannical mother as she tries to negotiate peace between her mother and her lesbian sister and find out why her father remained home in Omaha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREdeWitt, Patrick
Summary: "Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWJackson, Lisa
Summary: At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta and Zora. At a pre-graduation party just before the end of senior year,Tanner Stahd, the school daredevil, led a group down an embankment toward the river. One student was barely rescued in time to save his life. Carmen rushed to save him, but wasn't so lucky. Her sudden death was mourned; rumors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JACBledsoe, Lucy Jane
Summary: Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLEWatson, Renaee
Summary: In the summer before fifth grade, Ryan Hart continues to grow through changes and challenges, such as waiting for a new baby sister to be born, a summer camp trip, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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Summary: Addicted to painkillers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAIKeil, Michelle Ruiz
Summary: In 1990s Portland, Oregon, seventeen-year-old Iph, aided by George, a modern-day Robin Hood, seeks her sensitive fifteen-year-old brother, Orr, while Orr has escaped wilderness boot camp and is residing with The Furies, an all-girl punk band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021
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Summary: "Distant lovers. Shady friends. Racist strangers. Estranged parents. Insufferable bosses. Who says your twenties are fun? Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYPercy, Benjamin
Summary: The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew. Set in present-day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERMargolin, Phillip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2001
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Summary: Dr. Dylan Michaels cannot start married life with her long-time boyfriend Cooper with her sister's death on her conscience, but when Cooper reveals a secret of his own, Dylan is no longer sure of her future happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAIPerry, Thomas
Summary: When the cousin of a crime boss is found shot to death, the man's missing girlfriend, Tanya Starling, becomes the prime suspect, but as detective Catherine Hobbes investigates the crime, she discovers a deceptive killer who has become more elusive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PERMargolin, Phillip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBlake, Ashley Herring
Summary: "Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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Summary: After his daughter is killed, Farley returns from Alaska to his former life in Portland. There, he strikes up a friendship with a single mother and her daughter, until the girl goes missing. Facing a chance to do what he couldn't for his own daughter, Farley ventures into Portland's quirky and dangerous underworld to save her life, along with the shattered remains of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009