Willow
Summary: "From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: of warrior-kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "When falling in love is the punchline... Farley Jones is a loud, chaotic, and hilariously clever standup comedian on the way to stardom. The only thing she loves more than the rush of telling jokes in front of a revved-up audience is her hot older manager Meyer, though he doesn't have a clue. Keeping her feelings hidden from him is agony (a tragedy, even--in lieu of flowers, please send...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Adele Friar knows better than most that something dangerous lurks in the forest. So when her sister Maddie goes missing, she fears that the woods may hold the answers. After all, Maddie isn't the only one who has disappeared recently. Locals put the unusually high number of missing persons in the area down to inexperienced hikers getting lost in the forest's depths, or girls abandoning their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOYMcClintock, Norah
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jojo returns to his neighborhood after serving time for a violent crime."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCOkogwu, Tola
Summary: When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OKOHarris, Terah Shelton
Summary: ""Don't let the white man take the house." These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom, their ancestral home and 200 acres of land, from a development company, who has their sights set on turning the valuable waterfront property into a luxury resort. While fighting to save the Kingdom, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORACarlsson, Christoffer
Summary: "On a cold November night in 1994, a farmhouse burns to the ground. Inside, a young woman is found dead-murdered. To the people in the rural community of Marbäck, it becomes a reference point: a before and after. For ten-year-old Isak Nyqvist, the fire sets in motion something he cannot control, as if a stray spark has found its way inside him, igniting his future into an inferno. The police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2024
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Summary: Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH DELEdvardsson, M. T.
Summary: "A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-turning thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, The Woman Inside. Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a lodger into their home: Karla, a law student and aspiring judge, who works as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Her clients...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDVLaestadius, Ann-Helén
Summary: "On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa-daughter of Sámi reindeer herders-sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these "stolen" animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAEAhnhem, Stefan
Summary: ON A HOT SUMMER'S DAY The police chase a speeding car through the streets of Helsingborg. When they reach the bridge, the driver keeps going straight into the cold, dark waters of the Öresund strait. A TRAGIC ACCIDENT The body recovered from the wreck is that of Peter Brise, one of the city's richest tech entrepreneurs. Fabian Risk and his team are confident this is suicide. Young, rich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHNMezrich, Ben
Summary: When Charlie's classmate Anthem mysteriously disappears after bringing a supposed space rock to show-and-tell, the Whiz Kids trace his steps to his eerily empty house, where it becomes clear that Anthem and his father are involved in something much bigger than a lost rock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023