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Summary: A collection of short stories by diverse authors that explores acts of bravery by heroes trying to make the world a better place.
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Call #: J F HERO
Location: Juvenile Fiction
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Summary: An anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration -- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic...
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Call #: YA F COME
Location: New YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Tola Rotimi Abraham
(3,499)
Summary: Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn...
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Call #: F ABRAHAM
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Elizabeth Acevedo
(47,536)
Summary: Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.
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Call #: YA F ACEVEDO
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Elizabeth Acevedo
(45,966)
Summary: Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.
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Elizabeth Acevedo
(45,966)
Summary: Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.
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Fred Aceves
(402)
Summary: Marcos Rivas is desperate to escape the projects, his neglectful mother, and her abusive boyfriend, but when he is picked for a class at his high school targeting smart students who are underperforming, he initially resists.
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Call #: YA F ACEVES
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Andre Aciman
(226,965)
Summary: The story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences...
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Call #: F ACIMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(76,723)
Summary: In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend...
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Call #: F ADICHIE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Aravind Adiga
(2,615)
Summary: Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as good as his older brother Radha. But there are many other things about himself and the world that...
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Call #: F ADIGA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Agee
(14,162)
Summary: The tragedy of Jay Follet's sudden death destroys his family's secure and loving world.
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Kate Alcott
(1,786)
Summary: "The coming-of-age story of a young woman in 1950's Hollywood who grew up idolizing Ingrid Bergman and is forced to reassess her beliefs and desires in the face of Ingrid's scandalous affair with...
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Call #: F ALCOTT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Louisa May Alcott
Series:
Little Women Series
(1,714,890)
Summary: "The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: J F ALCOTT
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Adi Alsaid
(400)
Summary: "Dumped by her boyfriend the summer after senior year, teen love and relationship columnist Lu Charles has hit a wall with her writing. The words just won't come to her like they used to and if she...
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Call #: YA F ALSAID
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Zaina Arafat
(2,359)
Summary: On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem...
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Call #: F ARAFAT
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Jeffrey Archer (read by Robert Bathurst)
(4,855)
Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose...
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Call #: CD BOOK F ARCHER
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jeffrey Archer
(4,858)
Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose...
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Call #: F ARCHER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jane Austen
(664,600)
Summary: First published in 1816 and considered one of Jane Austen's finest works, Emma is a humorous portrayal of a heroine whose injudicious interferences in the life of a young parlour-boarder in a...
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Jane Austen
(287,999)
Summary: Ten-year-old Fanny Price, the child of a poor family, is sent to be raised by her wealthy uncle and his wife at their grand country manor, Mansfield Park.
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David Baldacci
(23,420)
Summary: Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any...
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Call #: F BALDACCI
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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David Baldacci
(23,756)
Summary: Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BALDACCI
copies in: 1 of 15
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by
Kelly J. Baptist
(336)
Summary: Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can...
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Call #: J F BAPTIST
Location: New Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Leigh Bardugo
Series:
DC Icons
(30,807)
Summary: "Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story." -- Provided by publisher
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Call #: YA F DC
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Pat Barker
Series:
Life Class Novels (Pat Barker)
(3,908)
Summary: A portrait of an upper-class family torn by World War I centers on an anguished sister whose beloved brother goes missing in action, in an epic tale that explores the experiences of the family members and the working-class people who support them.
BOOK
Call #: F BARKER
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Julian Barnes
(17,168)
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author ..., a novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who has long been there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness,...
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Call #: F BARNES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Julian Barnes
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author ..., a novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who has long been there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness,...
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Lynda Barry
(1,146)
Summary: "Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous...
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Call #: YA F BARRY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Sebastian Barry
(4,876)
Summary: Forced to flee from Ireland and the wrath of the IRA, Lilly Bere and her teenage son start anew in America. However, tragedy strikes when her fiance is murdered in Chicago and, years later, her...
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Erica Bauermeister
(27,688)
Summary: Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the...
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Call #: F BAUERMEISTER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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Sara Baume
(1,846)
Summary: Retreating to her family's rural house to escape the challenges of urban life, twentysomething artist Frankie explores the chain of events that have challenged her mental stability and art education.
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Sara Baume
(1,835)
Summary: Retreating to her family's rural house to escape the challenges of urban life, twentysomething artist Frankie explores the chain of events that have challenged her mental stability and art education.
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Call #: F BAUME
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ishmael Beah
(689)
Summary: A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people...
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Call #: F BEAH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Saul Bellow
(16,560)
Summary: "Much of The Adventures of Augie March takes place during the Great Depression, but far from being a chronicle of deprivation, the first of Saul Bellow’s string of masterpieces testifies to the...
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Call #: F BELLOW
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Aimee Bender
(61,149)
Summary: On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake...
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Aimee Bender
(61,147)
Summary: Being able to taste people's emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.
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Ali Benjamin
(1,622)
Summary: Led by new student Caitlyn, seventh-graders at a tiny rural school in Vermont create a reality-show inspired competition to determine who will replace the school's legendary class clown, Paulie Fink. -- Provided by publisher
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Call #: YA F BENJAMIN
copies in: 1 of 1
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Chloe Benjamin
(156,639)
Summary: It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold...
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Call #: F BENJAMIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Chloe Benjamin
(158,818)
Summary: It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold...
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