Bijan, Donia
Summary: "When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIJBogan, Carmen
Summary: "Willis Watson learns how there are real everyday heroes around him, and how he can be whatever he wants to be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOGBoujon, Claude
Summary: Escarbille, le long loup maigre, et Chaboudo, le toutouà courtes pattes, ne s'ennuient jamais. L'autre jour, en se promenant dans un désert très désertique (du sable, du sable et encore du sable, une pierre, une autre, un tas de cailloux et encore du sable…) les copains trouvent une chaise. Une chaise bleue, toute bête, toute seule au milieu de nulle part. Au lieu d'y poser leurs derrières...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lutin de poche de l'école des loisirs 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 BOU FRENCHHoran, Molly
Summary: "Jane Worthing's claim to fame is that she was one of the first viral internet sensations...discovered as a one-year-old in an oversized Gucci bag by her adopted father in a Poughkeepsie train station. Now in her senior year of high school, Janey is questioning whether she wants to look for her bio family due to a loving, but deeply misguided push from her best friend Algie, while also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HORKohan, Rhea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOHBolam, James
Summary: After jazz lover Trevor Chaplin orders some records and receives the wrong shipment, he and his English teacher girlfriend search for the missing items and stumble upon a black market operation in a church basement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEIBoland, Shalini
Summary: Finding a little boy in her kitchen is upsetting enough for Tessa Markham, but when her own past makes her a suspect in the child's kidnapping, Tessa must uncover the truth to prove her innocence to everyone, including herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Boland 2017Modan, Rutu.
Summary: Maya's unique table manners turn the palace upside down when she accepts an invitation to dine with the queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MODRohan, Ethel
Summary: "At four hundred pounds, Billy Brennan can always count on food. From his earliest memories, he has loved food's colors, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better, until the day Billy's beloved son Michael takes his own life. Billy determines to make a difference in Michael's memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROHBilan, Jasbinder
Summary: "Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BILDeb, Sopan
Summary: "From a New York Times reporter and memoirist Sopan Deb comes a heartwarming and charmingly funny debut novel about a box in the attic that leads one Bengali-American family down a path toward rediscovering family love, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his 60s, he finds himself iced out of his traditional Bengali community after an uncouth divorce from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBDrvenkar, Zoran
Summary: When a member of their inner circle goes missing, a clique of teenage girls finds themselves in a battle for their lives against a notorious Berlin crime boss who is seeking revenge in the wake of a stolen cache of drugs and the death of his brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRVBohman, Therese.
Summary: Drowned, set in the idyllic countryside during a short-lived Swedish summer, gets under one's skin from the first page, creating an atmosphere of foreboding in which even the perfume of freshly picked vegetables roasting in the kitchen becomes ominous. On the surface, the story couldn't be simpler. A single young woman visits her older sister, who is married to a writer as charismatic as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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Borman, Tracy
Summary: "At the end of The King's Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman's Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The Devil's Slave, Frances is compelled to return to the dissolute and dangerous court where she has been suspected of witchcraft. Catholics have gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BORCogan, Priscilla
Summary: When an old Indian medicine woman announces she intends to die, her daughter takes her to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist, a white woman, finds she is getting nowhere and slowly the tables are turned, the Indian medicine woman successfully treating the problems of the lonely and divorced white doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC COG
Horan, Nancy
Summary: "An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORRonan, Saoirse
Summary: The existence of a family of tiny people called Borrowers living in a house occupied by normal-sized people is threatened when the fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, is discovered by Shawn, the young, normal-sized boy who has come to live with his great aunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECSummary: A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDSummary: A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. A beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRBBajaj, Varsha
Summary: "A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BajajBorman, Tracy
Summary: In March of 1603, as she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth of England, Frances Gorges dreams of her parents' country estate, where she learned to use flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. When King James of Scotlant succeeds to the throne Frances is only too happy to stay at home. His court may be shockingly decadent, but his intolerant Puritanism see witchcraft in many of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BORBoylan, Clare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBoylan, Eleanor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBorja, Lenore
Summary: "Alice Daniels has a problem. Her reflection keeps misbehaving when she looks in the mirror--and the longer she ignores it, the harder it tries to get her attention. On her eighteenth birthday, she learns why: she is a huntress, someone gifted with the power to enter mirrors and the magical world that exists beyond. But with this power comes immense responsibility, for in the Mirror Realm lurks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SparkPress 2022