Sainz Borgo, Karina
Summary: "In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace here. Adelaida had a stable childhood in a prosperous Venezuela that accepted immigrants in search of a better life, where she lived with her single-mother in a humble...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAIDahlan, Sarina.
Summary: "After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of ''Imagine'' and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather - and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHBowen, Sarina
Summary: When she receives a disturbing text message from the only man she's ever loved who died five years ago, Ariel Cafferty, with the more questions she asks, the more sinister answers she gets, must, to safeguard herself and her son, find the truth before itfinds her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Dennis is an ordinary boy who expresses himself in extraordinary ways. Some children do show-and-tell. Dennis mimes his. Some children climb trees. Dennis is happy to BE a tree... But being a mime can be lonely. It isn't until Dennis meets a girl named Joy that he discovers the power of friendship--and how special he truly is!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOOKualakara, Sacina.
Summary: "Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity. Brother and sister Tanay and Anuja both fall in love with the same man, an artist lodging in their family home in Pune, in western India. He seems like the perfect tenant, ready with the rent and happy to listen to their mother's musings on the imminent collapse of Indian culture. But he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUAKhan, Sabina
Summary: "Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHAAli, Samina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALIChaviano, 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 CHASummary: Pele. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of Baurú, Brazil, so poor that he couldn't afford a real soccer ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PELYoon, Salina
Summary: Do cats moo? Do cats chow? All I know is cats go MEOW! This novelty board book features adorable puppies, hamsters, and bunnies, as well as the cuddly title cat and other favorite pets. Kids will happily lift the flap on each big animal "mouth" to uncover what sound it makes. For a big finish, all the animals appear together peering out from behind two gatefolds!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2020
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Summary: "A squad of frogs is excited when they spot a Very Big Frog in their pond. But when the creature says that he isn't a frog, the frogs insist that he's the one who is wrong. What happens when the creature has had enough of the frogs' quibbling? Find out in this pitch-perfect, hilarious read-aloud about misunderstandings, imagination, forgiveness, and friendship!"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Ever since her family moved to Texas from Pakistan when she was a baby, seventeen-year-old Zara Hossain has only ever called Corpus Christi home. Being the only Muslim girl at her conservative Catholic school, blending in isn't really an option, especially with people like Tyler Benson always tormenting her. But one day Tyler takes thing too far by defacing Zara's locker with a racist message,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHAMurray, Sabina
Summary: "Filipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce, and to begin research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to America at the start of the twentieth century to be exhibited as part of a 'human zoo.' It has been a year since Ting's last visit, and one year since Procopio "Copo" Gumboc swept the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURMurray, Sabina
Summary: "From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" (Washington Post) comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations. Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MURBerman, Sabina.
Summary: Karen Nieto, an autistic savant, uses her special gifts with animals to help her family's company become the first humane tuna fishery in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERHahn, Sabina
Summary: A misunderstood girl, who is certain she is a princess, creates a pineapple headpiece fit for royalty--unfortunately, a horde of eager subjects in the form of flies take direction poorly and her kingdom slowly devolves into chaos, causing both her rule and her pineapple crown to fall apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAHMurray, Sabina
Summary: "Following her New York Times Editor's Choice collection of short stories Tales of the New World, historical fiction master Sabina Murray returns with an epic and bold novel of friendship and betrayal set across four continents and a 40-year time span In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURYoon, Salina
Summary: Do sharks stamp? Do sharks stomp? All I know is sharks go CHOMP! With flaps to lift that reveal the sounds each animal makes, this fun board book introduces preschoolers to singing whales, roaring polar bears, snappy crabs, and growling hippos, along with the chompy title shark and other popular creatures. A two-gatefold grand finale brings all the animals together once more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2020
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Summary: Upon finding a toy rabbit in the forest, Bear tries his very best to return it to its home but by the time its owner appears, Bear has become attached to Bunny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E YOOYoon, Salina.
Summary: "Count down to St. Patrick's Day with the forest friends as the shiny shamrocks disappear one by one!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Price Stern Sloan 2006
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Summary: "Loud and in-charge Big Duck, quiet and clever Little Duck, and friendly and gentle Porcupine are back in another charming trio of stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YOOYoon, Salina
Summary: "Penguin's tired of the snow and cold--so he decides to go on vacation! But where should he go? And what new friends will he meet along the way?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury 2013
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Summary: Little Duck, Big Duck, and Porcupine discover new ways to use books, put together a talent show, and play doctor and patient.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE YOOYoon, Salina
Summary: "Big Duck likes to boss around her younger brother, Little Duck, and she fancies herself the leader of their trio when joined by their gentle friend Porcupine. Little Duck does not speak yet, but through his expressions and his actions, he shows that he has a better grasp on any situation than his older sister"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016