Vestal, Shawn
Summary: Caught dating a boy of another faith by her devout Mormon parents, 1970s teenager Loretta is married off to a fundamentalist as his second wife and runs away with his nephew and a part-Native American friend to search for a cache of gold and freedom outside their strict community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VESShinn, Sharon.
Summary: Jenna Starborn must leave the family that scorned her and find her own way in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIRāwī, Shahd
Summary: "Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAWSwann, Maxine.
Summary: Growing up in a rural countryside with her distant hippie-ish mother, Maya finds herself an outsider in the all-girl community of her new boarding school, where she encounters fellow outcast Roe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAYoungblood, Shay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUGoldhagen, Shari
Summary: "In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last ditch effort to connect with something (actually, someone, the girl he's had a crush on for years) in his sleepy Florida town before he leaves for good. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLShaw, Tucker
Summary: New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHAShen, E. L.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old inseparable best friends Jia, Ariel, and Everett navigate first love, grief, racism, and Asian American consciousness during one life-changing summer apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHEHahn, Sumi
Summary: "A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hahn 2020Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory. She can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom, the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. Melody...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DRAWyse, Sharon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYSShort, Sharon Gwyn.
Summary: Talented high-school senior Donna Lane yearns to leave her Midwestern home in pursuit of a career in design, but she feels obligated to stay and care for her helpless father and her younger brother, Will. In fragile health and obsessed with the television show Sergeant Striker and the Alaskan Wild, Wills dearest companion is a mute Siberian Husky named Trusty. The arrival of two outsiders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOJohnson, Alaya Dawn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohnson, Alaya Dawn
Summary: A young woman's coming-of-age story set in a world where wielding the power of magic requires understanding the true meaning of sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agate 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHConroe, Sean Thor
Summary: After being dumped by his ex, a young man in Philadelphia finds himself engaging in the same risky, immature behaviors and excesses that ruined his relationship in the first place and begins to question his life choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022