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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is...Without a home. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking. Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a...
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Beartown volume 3
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English
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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
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English
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"Molly Roden Winter was a mom of two young children in Park Slope, Brooklyn with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids' bedtime, again, she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At impromptu drinks with a friend, she met Matt, an unbelievably hot younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that he encouraged her to accept. So begins Molly's unexpected open...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
7) Everblaze
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
609 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Sophie Foster is ready to fight back. Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she's determined to find her kidnappers - before they come after her again. But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she has finally gone too far. And the deeper Sophie searches, the farther the conspiracy stretches, proving that her most dangerous enemy might...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures--George Orwell--and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair, the British Raj policeman, into Orwell the anticolonial writer. At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along...
9) Remember
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations : 28 cm
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English
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"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--
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Series
Rainbow! (Sunny) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows...
11) We still belong
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English
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"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood." And yet we humans don't do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better,...
13) Big
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
14) Memory piece
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir." --
Author
Publisher
SpeakLife
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Searching for meaning and purpose in life, a writer takes a spur-of-the-moment Christmastime train trip across the United States, making connections with his fellow passengers that will affect his, and their lives for years to come.
17) Mabuhay!
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"First-generation Filipino siblings, JJ and Althea, struggle to belong at school. JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is. But between the leftover Filipino food their mom packs for their lunches to having a last name that nobody can pronounce, any sense of belonging seems like a long shot. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck, dressing up as a dancing pig and passing...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie's children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself...
19) Change
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
373 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from three perspectives, outcast Hew and wish-granting canine Orail help seventeen-year-old Ália through a series of divine Ordeals, but there is more at stake in the kingdom than just Ália's future, and Orail may be the key to saving them all.
The Goddess Trial is designed to push young people to their edge and mark their coming of age. ℓila LacInis is ready for whatever it brings, and arrives at the island of the goddess Yslet, fully expecting...
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