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Black History Month 2023
Book Discussion Sets - Fiction
NPL Staff Favorites for 2022
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself" --
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about""--
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Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages: illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Against the will of their grandmother, twins Alex and Conner must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
111 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.
8) Uh-oh, Cleo
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
What starts out as a perfectly ordinary day in the Small house turns into Stiches Saturday when Cleo gets a cut on the head after her twin brother, Jack, accidentally pulls down their "Toy House."
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Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
Waking up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a young woman discovers that she is the identical twin of a rogue spy and, to stay alive, must team up with a very grouchy, very sexy, very secret agent to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sister's name.
10) Fangirl
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Series
Fangirl (Manga) volume 3
Language
English
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"In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life―and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie...
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Del Rey trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years,...
12) Brain trouble
Author
Series
Magnificent makers volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
98 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Visiting a Brain Fair is fun, but Violet and her friends get to learn even more amazing facts about the brain when they enter the magical Maker Maze"--
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words. "Williams spins an immersive and compelling tale, sweeping us back to the Oxford she painted so expertly in The Dictionary of Lost Words"--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife It is 1914, and as the war...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
v, 511 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A dark, thrilling short-story collection about twisted minds and vengeful hearts, from a true master of suspense. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; a woman finally overcomes her intimacy issues through a dark encounter with her Peeping Tom neighbor; a...
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
16) Don't let go
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Language
English
Description
"With unmatched suspense and emotional insight, Harlan Coben explores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town in this powerful new thriller. Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon 'Nap' Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks -- and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke...
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