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Norah McClintock
(65)
Summary: After serving time for assault, Remy must learn to control his anger.
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Bill Konigsberg
(8,591)
Summary: It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the...
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Call #: YA F KONIGSBERG
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Don Brown
(8,139)
Summary: On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL BRO YA
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nancy Johnson
(2,260)
Summary: It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a...
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Call #: F JOHNSON
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Sarah Blake
(19,803)
Summary: "A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The...
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Call #: F BLAKE
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Sarah Blake
(19,965)
Summary: "A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The...
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Sarah Blake
(20,016)
Summary: "A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F BLAKE
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Sarah Blake
(20,200)
Summary: "A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The...
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by
Tash Aw
(876)
Summary: Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?
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Call #: F AW
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Justina Ireland
Series:
Dread Nation - #2
(5,718)
Summary: The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life...
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Call #: YA F IRELAND
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Allen Eskens
(4,978)
Summary: "After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his...
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Call #: F ESKENS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
David Yoon
(18,863)
Summary: "High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all." -- Provided by publisher
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Call #: YA F YOON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Allen Eskens
Summary: "After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his...
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Jodi Picoult
(278,344)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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Call #: BK CLUB F PICOULT
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Julie Berry
(22,848)
Summary: "In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London,...
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Call #: YA F BERRY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Colson Whitehead
(142,990)
Summary: In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story...
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Call #: CD BOOK F WHITEHEAD
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Julie Berry
(22,253)
Summary: "In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London,...
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Julie Berry
Summary: "In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London,...
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Colson Whitehead
(150,828)
Summary: In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story...
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Call #: F WHITEHEAD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 3 of 3
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by
Ilyasah Shabazz
(251)
Summary: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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Call #: YA F SHABAZZ
Location: New YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Sameer Pandya
(901)
Summary: Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a...
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Call #: F PANDYA
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Malorie Blackman
Series:
Noughts & Crosses - #4
(11,596)
Summary: Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth -- and her fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future. Her...
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Malorie Blackman
Series:
Noughts & Crosses - #3
(15,544)
Summary: Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a lifelong...
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nic Stone
(51,472)
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Malorie Blackman
Series:
Noughts & Crosses - #2
(18,411)
Summary: Following Callum's death, the people who loved him relate how their lives have been changed, especially in reference to his girlfriend, Sephy, and their mixed-race child.
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kim Johnson
(3,763)
Summary: Every week Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time: her dad has...
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Call #: YA F JOHNSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Thomas James Maltman
(90)
Summary: Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern...
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Call #: F MALTMAN
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kara Lee Corthron
(182)
Summary: In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and...
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Call #: YA F CORTHRON
Location: New YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Traci Chee
(1,689)
Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor...
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Call #: YA F CHEE
Location: New YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Jason Reynolds
(31,556)
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend....
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Call #: YA F REYNOLDS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Jodi Picoult
(276,755)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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Call #: F PICOULT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 3
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Jodi Picoult (read by Audra McDonald)
(276,755)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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Call #: CD BOOK F PICOULT
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Angie Thomas
(549,642)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS
Locations: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
copies in: 2 of 17
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by
Angie Thomas
(537,636)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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by
Linda Williams Jackson
Series:
Rose Lee Carter
(1,212)
Summary: Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F JACKSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Angie Thomas
(545,920)
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: YA CD BOOK F THOMAS
Location: YA CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jodi Picoult
(278,434)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F PICOULT
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sarah Jamila Stevenson
(613)
Summary: When high school senior Asha Jamison is called a "towel head" at a pool party, she and her best friend Carey start a club to raise awareness of mixed-race students that soon sweeps the country, but...
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Call #: YA F STEVENSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Monique Roffey
(2,857)
Summary: Sabine struggles to adapt to life in postcolonial Trinidad after her husband George takes a job assignment there, especially as racial and political tensions rise and the couple's secrets and lies cause them to drift apart.
BOOK
Call #: F ROFFEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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