Kingsolver, Barbara
Summary: "How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINCastle, Jennifer
Summary: Teens Kendall and Max witness a tragic accident during the holidays and, racked with guilt, accept a dare to perform seven random acts of kindness to strangers by New Year's Eve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASAtwood, Megan
Summary: Pen pals Molly and Olive consider themselves best friends even though they have never actually met because Molly lives in New York City and Olive lives on a farm in Iowa--but when Olive finds a diamond bracelet in the grass the two girls start to wonder if they can finally get the money for one of them to visit the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWRhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola
Summary: "When the strange new girl at her high school takes her to a place underneath the subways of New York, where people like them can go and find a home, Harriet Adu, who is riddled with guilt over her brother's death, gets a second chance at being a better person"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2024
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Summary: In early twentieth-century New York City, in the golden age of magic, Leo, an orphaned magician's apprentice, becomes involved in a murder mystery when he trusts a dishonest man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AXEPalmer, Ada
Summary: It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war. In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion--but ecumenical "sensayers" minister in private, one-on-one. In which gendered language is archaic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALGodbersen, Anna.
Summary: In 1900 New York City, fashionable debutante Diana Holland and married soldier Henry Schoonmaker flaunt the rules of society to be with one another.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GODGodbersen, Anna
Summary: As rumors continue about the untimely demise of Elizabeth Holland, an outwardly stricken Penelope Hayes determines to use any means necessary to claim her friend's pre-eminent place in 1899 Manhattan society and to get and keep the attentions of Elizabeth's former fianc©♭, the wealthy Henry Schoonmaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen/HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GODGodbersen, Anna.
Summary: In 1899 Manhattan, Elizabeth Holland refuses to resume her position in society, mutual scorn divides newlyweds Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker, and Carolina Broad's social position is far from secure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GODLove, Jessica
Summary: How can your life change when you break the rules every now and then? Hannah Cho is about to find out when she impulsively decides to road trip to Las Vegas, her older sister and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick Cooper and finally declare her more-than-friend feelings for him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOVReynolds, Jason.
Summary: Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYRose, Heather
Summary: "Arky Levin has reached a creative dead end. Guilty and restless after an unexpected separation from his wife, almost by chance he stumbles upon an art exhibit that will change his life. Based on a real piece of performance art, the installation that the fictional Arky Levin discovers is inexplicably powerful. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art sit across a table from artist Marina Abramović...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P ROSDoyen, Denise.
Summary: A cautionary tale for mice written in nonsense verse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE DOYFitzpatrick, Huntley.
Summary: When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a wealthy, perfectionist, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FITAlger, Horatio
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Philip Brent leaves his small hometown to seek his fortune in 1880s New York after his spiteful stepmother reveals that instead of being his late father's beloved only son, he is of unknown parentage and must fend for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kessinger Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGGoldblatt, Mark
Summary: In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GOLBoyne, John
Summary: Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a long lifetime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBarry, Dave
Summary: When the eighth grade civics class of Miami's Culver Middle School goes on a trip to Washington, D.C., Wyatt Palmer finds himself in deep trouble before the plane even lands because his best friend Matt's decided the men sitting behind them are terrorists--and it's up to the boys to stop them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARAtwood, Megan
Summary: Feeling out of sorts with his twin sister, Olive, and their friends Lizzie and Sarah, Peter is drawn to new student Kai, but soon discovers that Kai is not very nice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ATWMosley, Walter.
Summary: Tempest Landry, a quick-witted African American resident of Harlem, NY, is walking home when a case of mistaken identity leads to his being shot by police. He finds himself standing in line at the gates of heaven waiting to talk to Saint Peter, who reviews his past transgressions and finds him wanting. Tempest is denied entry into heaven and ordered to hell. Believing his "sins" justified and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Classic Press 2008
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Summary: During one year, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, aged nine to thirteen, get to know their neighbors the Lawrences, attend school dances and sleepovers, have first crushes, and grow closer despite their differences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHKelly, David A.
Summary: In New York City for the annual series between rival teams, the Yankees and the Mets, Mike and Kate investigate a spate of pranks, thefts, and sabotage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KELSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHMiller, Pat
Summary: Squirrel cannot think of a New Year's resolution until she realizes that by helping her friends, she has made one after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2010