Janovsky, Timothy
Summary: "Wren Roland has never been kissed, let alone been in love, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. He didn't expect a response from Derick Haverford, Wren's #1 pre-coming-out-crush...but now that they're working together at their hometown's vintage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "No one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tłı̨chǫ Dene boy, is eager to help. Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's samurai sword and armour. But when he discovers that the sword was lost in a poker game, he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank. Along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANOwen, James A.
Summary: Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OWEFumino, Yuki
Summary: "Stunningly handsome Kohei Sugihara was outgoing and popular with the girls at school. But when a sudden illness left him with partial hearing loss, he grew quiet and reluctant to engage with others. At college, a chance encounter with an ever-optimistic classmate named Taichi Sagawa helped Kohei open up once more. And over time, the two began to develop feelings for each other. As the story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Peace Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 IJung, Mike
Summary: Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC JUNDickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICJung, Mike
Summary: Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JUNToole, John Kennedy
Summary: When Marie decides to leave Bruce, she delivers herself of a torrent of ferocious humor and foul-mouthed vituperation concerning him and their marriage, not to mention love, hate, caring, commitment, and all the other current clich©♭ s about relationships. As he follows Marie and Bruce through breakfast, a friend' s party, and dinner, Wallace Shawn brilliantly orchestrates her savage attacks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1987
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOOCallanan, Liam.
Summary: Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is an enthralling debut novel, a story of adventure and awakening-and of a young soldier who came to Alaska on an extraordinary, top-secret mission, and found a world that would haunt him forever. Drifting through the night, whisper-quiet, they were the most sublime manifestations of a desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Summary: Seth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love. Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by Cam, Ethan, and Phil, their wives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: A hero on the border of life and death must avert a looming cataclysm. Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOOPotok, Chaim.
Summary: "The novelist records the anguish and triumps of a young painter as he emerges into the great world of art and rejects all else."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1972
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTFante, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FANTownsend, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWMailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIDoctorow, Cory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCDickens, Charles
Summary: The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery. Dickens supplied two endings to his great novel, both are recorded leaving the listener to judge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA CD FIC DICDickens, Charles
Summary: Presents a reprint of Dickens's 1843 novel depicting the greed and selfishness in England and America through the story of suspicious and misanthropic old Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICGoudge, Eileen.
Summary: A woman falls in love with a much younger man, igniting a storm of disapproval and dismay among the inhabitants of their unique California valley in which families have deep and tangled roots and hide dangerous secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUFergus, Jim.
Summary: Heading west to join the search for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Ned Giles meets a troubled Apache girl, imprisoned in a Mexican jail, whose fate forces him to make a choice that will change his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERBogosian, Eric.
Summary: "This novel is about five suburbanites whose lives intersect in one violent and life-altering night at the local mall."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOGDickens, Charles
Summary: Charles Dickens' 1850 classic epic, David Copperfield, unfolds the story of David, an optimistic and hard-working lad who's orphaned in his youth. Raised initially by his brutal stepfather, who halts David's schooling and sends him to work in a factory, David eventually finds a home with his eccentric, but kind aunt, Betsey. Later in life, David trains for a career in law, but eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009