Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBWalters, Damien Angelica
Summary: "In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real - and she could prove it. That belief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALMullen, Diane C.
Summary: Count the ways two hands, three days cleaning up, four planter boxes, and many more steps show how city neighbors transform one little abandoned lot into a beautiful community garden.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE MULTan, Shaun
Summary: A collection of illustrated short stories, each one about the relationship of humans and the animals, both wild and domestic, that share the urban environment of the inner city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TANDe Leon, Jennifer
Summary: Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LBriggs, Patricia
Summary: Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves. The reality is that nothing and no one is safe. As generals and politicians face off with the Gray Lords of the fae, a storm is coming and her name is Death.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIClare, Cassandra
Summary: High Warlock Magnus Bane learns that a demon-worshiping cult, the Crimson Hand, is wreaking havoc across Europe, threatening more than just his romantic getaway with new boyfriend, Alec Lightwood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAJohn-Kehewin, Wanda
Summary: "A new girl at school. A mysterious crow. Weird visions he can't explain. Grade 12 just got a lot more complicated for Damon Quinn... "Your ancestors have called us to help you." "I think you have the wrong number." Damon Quinn just wants to get through his senior year unscathed. His mom struggles with alcohol and is barely coping with the day-to-day. Marcus and his cronies at school are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JOHSanderson, Brandon
Summary: Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved. Christina Walsh is determined to change that. She starts with the murder of world-renowned violinist Leona McPherson, who mysteriously disappeared years ago after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Leona was a prodigy, someone too good to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANBriggs, Patricia
Summary: They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek, Montana. Close enough to the Marrok's pack to have its support; far enough away to not cause any harm. With their Alpha out of the country, Charles and Anna are on call when an SOS comes in from the fae mate of one such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: "Paris, France: 1860s. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, molding it into a modern city. The reforms will erase generations of history-but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rosnay 2012McInerney, Jay
Summary: "The crowning achievement from the preeminent writer of his generation: following Brightness Falls and The Good Life, Bright, Precious Things builds on a series increasingly akin to John Updike's Rabbit novels but with a long-standing if weathered couple at its heart. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the New York dream: book parties one night and high-society charity events the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: "Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction O'Farrell 2016Laken, Valerie.
Summary: Hoping to rekindle their troubled marriage while renovating a historic house in Ann Arbor, Kate and Stuart Kinzler learn that the house had been the scene of a devastating crime thirty years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAKMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on their honeymoon, Edinburgh is in disarray. While recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a Dane called Bo. Cyril eludes his dog-sitter and embarks on an odyssey involving fox holes and the official residence of a cardinal. Narcissist Bruce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCall Smith 2014Brogden, James
Summary: "After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help. When she begins to experience phantom sensations of leaves and earth with her missing limb, Rachel is terrified she is going mad... but then another hand takes hers, and the trapped woman is pulled into our world. This woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROThornton, Mark R.
Summary: "This lean, raw, and surprising debut is a deeply moving and powerful story of Moses, a nine-year-old survivor of the harsh streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Moses longs for something outside the grim existence he has known. He and his friend Kioso hitch a ride out of the city on the back of a truck only to find themselves in the wilderness where their street wisdom no longer helps them as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOArmstrong, Kelley
Summary: The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When Patrick--author of books on the supernatural--brings him the case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting a ride from a businessman, Gabriel knows the Cainsville elder is just trying to wheedle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMAiles, Kat
Summary: For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she’ll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they’d hoped for doesn’t quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: "Sometimes, an ordinary walk can become something ... magical! Tag along with Ruby as she discovers that even big cities have a wild side"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Cornell Lab Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOEllis, Mary
Summary: "Travel writer Jill Curtis loves her job, but she desperately needs a break if she's to achieve her dream of becoming an investigative reporter. Sent to Kentucky by her boss to find out why thousands of tourists flock to Bourbon Country every year, Jill's dream seems to be slipping further away. After all, nothing interesting ever happens in rural America . . . does it? Staying at an estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLKadrey, Richard
Summary: "Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn't come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who's most recently met Death and death's killer a few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADHarrison, Kim
Summary: "Rachel Morgan's come a long way from the clutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. She's faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witchs, and soul-eating demons. She's crossed worlds, channeled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon. She's lost friends and lovers and family, and an old enemy has become something much more. But power demands responsibility, and world-changers must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2014