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Summary: Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in the trunk of his BMW. As far as the body goes, he's completely innocent. He has no idea who the victim could be, or who among his many, many enemies might be trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEROlguín, Sergio
Summary: "When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bitter Lemon Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLGIwahara, Yuji
Summary: "Handsome and charismatic Prince Salva is the most powerful man in Africa, and he has arrived in Central 47 to rile into action both the Collectors of the world and New Tesla Energy itself! Meanwhile, who is the mysterious foreign boy whom Kyouma encounters, and why does he remind Kyouma of Mira? As this progressive sci-fi tale reaches new heights, myriad truths unfold--about Mira's A.I., the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIMIsayama, Hajime
Summary: "The world outside the Walls is vaster than Eren and his comrades could have ever imagined. Just beyond the shores of Paradis lies the country of Marley - home to Eren's mortal enemy Reiner. He may have returned home, hoping to consign "the Armor" to his past, but some things can't be so easily forgotten - and Reiner is about to be confronted by a certain someone he turned his back on..."--Back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ATTFernández, Nona
Summary: "It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERMurakami, Haruki
Summary: This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2005
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Summary: At the Square King Cup semifinals, Rider's team Yellow-Green takes on the undisputed champion, Emperor, while Team Blue battles Team Gloves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HINRagnar Jónasson
Summary: "Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjoerdur, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thor Arason is now a police inspector, but he's separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orenda Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGArakawa, Hiromu
Summary: The political power structure of the military may be irreparable shattered when Colonel Mustang confronts Fuhrer President King Bradley with his suspicion that Bradley is a homunculus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Manga, Call number: YA FIC ARAHimekawa, Akira
Summary: Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards' power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the Twilight Realm beyond the Mirror of Twilight. Now, an evil menace is trying to find Midna, princess of the Twilight Realm, and the fragments of the Shadow Crystal to gain the power to rule over both the Twilight Realm and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The horrors of the Ishbalan extermination campaign had serious repercussions, which set the tone for the complicated dealings of present-day state politics. Lieutenant Hawkeye reluctantly tells Ed all the dreaded details of the role Colonel Mustang and the other state alchemists played in this tragic event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Manga, Call number: YA FIC ARAMidorikawa, Yuki
Summary: Takahi has the ability to see spirits and demons that others cannot see. When he moves to a small town, he discovers he has more than just the Sight. He has inherited Reiko's Book of Friends which binds the names of demons and spirts who will stop at nothing to release them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NATQuintana, Pilar
Summary: "In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISten, Camilla
Summary: "Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left-a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STETakahashi, Rumiko
Summary: The scheming demon Naraku has turned Sango against Inuyasha, and opening her eyes to the real danger won't be easy. Meanwhile, Miroku has to wrestle with his past and the curse that is threatening to kill him. Miroku's insight into his enemies' personalities gives him an edge that they don't have. As Naraku pulls the strands of his web of deceit tighter, Inuyasha and his friends find themselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 INUOku, Hiroya.
Summary: Two teenagers, struck and killed by a subway train, find that their new "lives" are controlled by a sadistic alien.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GANLapierre, Alexandra
Summary: "Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin's ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he's abruptly and mysteriously deported from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAPSakurai, Gamon
Summary: "Encouraged by a fellow demi-human's stunt, many more who have been keeping a low profile come out of the woodwork. Their morals vary--and high schooler Kei Nagai is by no means the most decent among them."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AJIGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: "The revised Selected Verse, which incorporates changes made to Lorca's Collected Poems, is the most complete paperback anthology of his work available in English, and is an essential addition to any poetry lover's bookshelf. In this bilingual edition, Lorca's poetic range comes clearly into view, from the playful Suites and stylized evocations of Andalusia to the utter gravity and mystery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARHaratischwili, Nino
Summary: "'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.' At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMesa, Sara
Summary: "Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's 'program' is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the 'special', scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MESKutscher, Volker
Summary: "It is 1933 and a dead man has been found lying under railway arches in Berlin. An old soldier, hideously disfigured, he has been killed mysteriously. Gereon Rath is brought onto the case while his fiancee, Charlotte Ritter, blazes her own trail. Meanwhile, the Nazis consolidate their hold on power, the Reichstag is burned down, and things become a lot worse not only for Berlin's Jewish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandstone Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC KUTShouoto, Aya
Summary: "High school student Anise Yamamoto is the "Rose Princess" of four handsome knights. On the night of the academy foundation gala, a Rose Knight steals Anise's first kiss! Before Anise can come to terms with this, the Gray Rose has already laid a trap for her and her Rose Knights."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2015
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 KISLabatut, Benjamín
Summary: "A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.The great mathematician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2020