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Demonology Demonology Fiction Families Fantasy Graphic novels Grief Magic Magic Fiction School shootings SistersJalali, Reza
Summary: "Looking through the tall trees in their backyard in Maine, Shirin and her dad search for a glimpse of the new moon, the sign that the month of Ramadan has begun. Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world pray, fast, and pay special attention to doing good deeds. Shirin is nine and thinks she should be able to fast like her older brother Ali, but her parents feel she is still too young to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JALGalenorn, Yasmine
Summary: Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I'm Kerris Fellwater, and when I returned, I inherited my grandmother's house--and her gift. As a spirit shaman, it's my responsibility to drive the dead back to their graves, because around Whisper Hollow,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GALGalenorn, Yasmine
Summary: We're the D'Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch. Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. And me? I'm Menolly, a vampire married to a gorgeous werepuma. As the war in Otherworld arrives, Blood Wyne, Queen of the Vampires, summons me. Apparently, my position as Roman's consort entails...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GALAngoe, Yasmin
Summary: "Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGBarron, Rena
Summary: After years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah discovers it comes at a terrible price. Now the last surviving witchdoctor, she is left to pick up the shattered pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom in shambles, and long-buried secrets about who she is. Struggling to rebuild, Arrah discovers there may be survivors who escaped the demons' attack on the tribes. Meanwhile, her beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRBarron, Rena
Summary: Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. There's only one thing Arrah hasn't tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom's children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAROlsen, Rena.
Summary: "In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman's life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true. wasn't? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. The last thing her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OLSRossner, Rena
Summary: "Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSForna, Namina
Summary: The blood ceremony will determine whether Deka will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony her blood runs gold, the color of impurity. A mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FORLuchsinger, Dena.
Summary: While being smart and strong are useful traits, loving other people just because God made them is always good.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE Set Spanish Luchsinger 2007Novales, Keka
Summary: Lola is excited to go to Guatemala with abuelita for a few weeks to learn about her heritage and see her family, but when she arrives, things do not go as planned, her Spanish is not as good as she thought, and she feels out of place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NOVGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC GUICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Guillory 2019Guillory, Jasmine
Summary: "A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUIWarga, Jasmine
Summary: "Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her home-town start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: "Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's 'program' is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the 'special', scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MESWarga, Jasmine
Summary: Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. But this life also brings unexpected surprises. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WARWalls, Jasmine
Summary: Sarah is a school bully, but when she falls into the Snow White fairy tale she meets the Evil Queen, and decides that being evil is not really much fun--and sets out to convince the Queen that being nice has its rewards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WALWarga, Jasmine
Summary: Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction WargaWarga, Jasmine
Summary: "The One and Only Ivan meets The Wild Robot in this unique and deeply moving middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover, from the Newbery Honor--winning author of Other Words for Home. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WARWarga, Jasmine
Summary: "Cora hasn't spoken to her best friend Quinn in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Lola is anxious starting a new school in the middle of the school year, but her grandmother's advice helps her overcome her first day of school and adjust to the new school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NOVGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "Two people realize that it's no longer an act when they veer off-script in this sizzling romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Ben Stephens has never bothered with serious relationships. He has plenty of casual dates to keep him busy, family drama he's trying to ignore, and his advertising job to focus on. When Ben lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUIWalls, Jasmine
Summary: It is time for the The Golden Chalice race, and once again the three blind mice, Poppy, Basil, and Lily, are competing using sonar tech to navigate the twisting track; but the Farmer family cats are determined to win and have plans to once again sabotage the Mayhem Mice--just as they did in the last race, cutting off the tail of the mices' vehicles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022