Hokeah, Oscar
Summary: "Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father's injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HokeahCruz, Angie
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CruzKeneally, Thomas
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KeneallyHarris, Kai
Summary: "A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HarrisHassman, Tupelo
Summary: Rosary, California, is not an easy place to grow up, particularly without a mom. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the Internet is blocked, Rosary is a town run by evangelicals but named by Catholics (and the evangelicals aren't particularly happy about that). It's a town on very formal relations with its neighbors, one that doesn't have much traffic in or out and that boasts an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HassmanMaguire, Gregory
Summary: Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MaguireFerrante, Elena
Summary: "Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION FerranteFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FitchMathews, Sarah Thankam
Summary: Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, gruelling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women--soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MathewsNeuberger, Emily
Summary: "Under the bright lights of Broadway, one new musical pushes the boundaries of love, legacy, and art. Growing up in rural Wisconsin, Eleanor O'Hanlon always felt different. In love with musical theater from a young age, she memorized every show album she could get her hands on. So when she discovers an open call for one of her favorite productions, she leaves behind everything she knows to run...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putman's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NeubergerGraham-Felsen, Sam
Summary: Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school--which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely--he'll be friendless for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GrahNguyen, Eric
Summary: "When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NguyenOwens, Delia
Summary: "Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father-- until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her brother spent the summer with him"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SparkDaré, Abi
Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DareKrupitsky, Naomi
Summary: "A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KrupitskMessud, Claire
Summary: Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION MessThomas, Angie
Summary: Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION ThomasWolfe, Toya
Summary: Summer, 1999. Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens lives with her mother and older teenaged brother in building 4950 of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. The high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority, and the neighborhood is beginning to fall down around them. Fe Fe is friends with Precious and Stacia, but when Fe Fe welcomes Tonya into their fold, the dynamics shift. Their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WolfeBlakemore, Megan Frazer
Summary: Cursed Princess Harbor Rose lives on a remote island as she waits for a hero to sweep her away, but when a foe rooted in dark magic threatens her beloved island, Harbor Rose must find a way to call the hero before time runs out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION BlakemoreCampbell, Bonnie Jo
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CampbHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son. In a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the astrocities of the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK FICTION HosseLarkin, Allie
Summary: "Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving inan unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LarkinLi, Yiyun
Summary: "A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022