McPhee, Martha
Summary: "On a winter day in 1910, at a train station in Ohio, two girls wait in the cold with their mother to begin a new life in the West. Tommy, the eldest, feels responsible for her sister, and in the years to come, as their mother campaigns for women's suffrage and teaches in one-room schoolhouses across Montana, she takes care of Katherine: trapping animals, begging, keeping house, cooking, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCPKorman, Gordon
Summary: Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORJohnson, Nancy
Summary: It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She knows that to move forward she must make peace with the past. Returning home to her Indiana factory hometown, she finds it plagued by racism, unemployment,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHYang, Kelly
Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC YANYang, Kelly
Summary: Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUIQuigley, Dawn
Summary: I need to find out how to be fancy. How do you talk and eat fancy? How do you dress fancy? and what do you do at a fancy wedding? Don't miss more adventures with Jo Jo!-from backcover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum 2022
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Summary: Jen Ferguson's powerful and beautifully written YA debut novel follows a demisexual Metis teen girl from a Canadian prairie town, who over one summer must grapple with an unwelcome figure from her past--as well as the questions about identity, secrets, confusion about her sexuality, and relationships that all make up who she is. In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FERDay, Christine
Summary: "Today is a big day for Wesley Wilder. Her poem about Indigenous People's Day will be printed in the school newspaper--and she also has a plan to ask her rush, fellow gamer Ryan, to go with her to the school dance. But from the moment she boards the morning bus, Wesley's day starts to unravel. Between jittery emotions, unexpected encounters, and awkward conversation with her teachers, almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC DAYQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Filled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series--written by Dawn Quigley and illustrated by Tara Audibert--is filled with the joy of a young Ojibwe girl discovering her very own special shine from the inside out. First grader Jo Jo Makoons knows how to do a lot of things, like how to play jump rope, how to hide her peas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUIJohnson, Nancy
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 family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHMozley, Fiona
Summary: "Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London that truly never sleeps. Tourists dawdling, chancers skulking, addicts shuffling, sex workers strutting, punters prowling, businessmen striding, the homeless and the lost. Down Wardour Street, ducking onto Dean Street, sweeping into L'Escargot, darting down quiet back alleyways, skirting dumpsters and drunks, emerging on to raucous main...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZCadow, Kenneth M.
Summary: Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CADMedie, Peace A.
Summary: A seamstress in Gana, Afi Tekple is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she comes to live in Accra, Ghana's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDBudhos, Marina Tamar
Summary: After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediatly put on hold as she figures out how take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BUDGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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Summary: "Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCBrooks, Geraldine
Summary: A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian become connected by their shared interest in a 19th century race horse, one studying its remains, the other uncovering the history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Hannah must choose the impossible--put her nephews into foster care so she can stay true to her dream, or take them on and lose everything she has worked so hard to achieve"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2024
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Summary: In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOWStringfellow, Tara M.
Summary: "In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STRBieker, Chelsea
Summary: "Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEJohnson, Nancy
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 family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021