Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.)
Summary: "A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSoomro, Taymour
Summary: "A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOOBrandt, Beverly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrandon, James
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Isaac Griffin sets out to find the father he has never met, only to discover that perhaps the missing pieces of his life were never missing at all. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BRAHobson, Brandon
Summary: "A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBSlocumb, Brendan
Summary: "Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLOGaylord, Joshua A. (Joshua Alden)
Summary: "When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: as a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYTaylor, Valerie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYTaylor, Will
Summary: "Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice though, so he goes. On his first day, he takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Just like that, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAYBradford, Barbara Taylor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRABradford, Barbara Taylor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRATevis, Walter S.
Summary: Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TEVO'Donnell, Lisa
Summary: Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at keeping secrets. He listens at doors; it's the only way to find out anything. And Michael's heard a secret, one that might explain the bruises on his mother's face. When the whispers at home and on the street become too loud to ignore, Michael begins to wonder if there is an even bigger. Scared of what might happen if anyone finds out, and desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'DOOwens, Delia
Summary: "For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: After witnessing the suicide of a popular boy on a playground at night and doing nothing to stop him, a panicked teenager drags the body to the beach and buries it, becoming trapped in a guilt spiral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JESGolding, William
Summary: Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006