Bell, Davina

Summary: Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days deep in their mother's collection of classic literature - until a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality. At first, Edward is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Text Publishing Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEL

Ginzburg, Natalia

Summary: "In a quiet Italian town after World War Two, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is a constant concern to her obsessive, hypochondriac mother. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family, who own the textile factory that dominates the town. Over the course...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIN

Sylvester, Natalia

Summary: "When Abuela comes to visit from Peru, she brings a suitcase full of treasures and her granddaughter learns that home is not just a place, but the love between family no matter the distance"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYL

Sylvester, Natalia

Summary: The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SYL

Hernandez, Natalia

Summary: For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if they are found and brought before them it will...

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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HER

Sylvester, Natalia

Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SYL

Summary: Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SOL

Summary: A medieval couple in Macedonia cannot conceive. An old woman offers help but only if they give her their firstborn. A year after they have a baby, she visits them. A taxi driver hits a man in the street. The ambulance and neighbors come and go. Seated alone on the curb in the rain, he waits for the police. Taken with his honesty, Rodna brings him an umbrella. Three years later they are married,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: For Anna Maria, a woman in her fifties, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAR

Card, Orson Scott

Summary: Delilah "Spunky" Spunk is invited to conduct a genome study in a small North Carolina town to discover if there is a genetic influence on one's desire to remain in a community. She unexpectedly finds herself in the cross hairs of a feud between rival Christmas pageants, and along the way discovers she is falling in love.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAR

Summary: As Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their routine. But just because the shiva has ended doesn't mean it's life as usual. Each coping in their own way, Eyal and Vicky both attempt to regain a sense of control over their future, as they struggle to discover that there are still things in life worth living for.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONE

Adams, Sara Nisha

Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ADA

Ness, Patrick

Summary: Presents a twist on themes from Moby Dick in the story of a proud warrior whale pod that attacks a ship before pursuing a near-mythical adversary on a vengeful hunt that risks the worlds of both whales and humans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC NES

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NES

Summary: "Amin Jaafari ..., an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATT

Summary: Mavka the soul of the forest has been chosen by the supreme spirits to become the forest's new guardian. But when she meets a talented human musician named Lucas a man on the hunt for a mysterious tree with the power to give life, she is faced with an impossible choice between her newfound love and her duty to the spirits. Can humans and the forest live in harmony, or will greed and vice...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAV

Adam, Christian

Summary: A teenage Catholic student attends a weekend retreat as she looks for answers about her awakening sexuality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2020

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YES
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Summary: From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STR

Little Badger, Darcie

Summary: "Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIT

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIT

Black, Holly

Summary: Cardan Greenbriar, High King of Elfhame, visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLA

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLA

Gabaldon, Diana

Summary: A collection of short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, all extending the story of Outlander in thrilling new directions.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB