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Summary: Hoping to put his criminal past behind him while working as a daycare provider, Monty is targeted by local activists and thugs and is forced to balance life on both sides of the law in order to protect his community and loved ones from incrementally violent acts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVaz, Katherine
Summary: "John Alves, son of a famous Presbyterian martyr on the Portuguese island of Madeira, spends his childhood in jail and in poverty. When he meets Mary Freitas--though the adopted daughter of a master botanist, her true lineage is the subject of dangerous rumor--a spark kindles a lasting bond. But soon their families must confront the rising blood tide of warfare between Catholics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC VAZ1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VAZVan, Muon
Summary: "In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017