Benjamin, Chloe
Summary: It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children -- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness -- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENWatson, Debbie
Summary: Whitney, her mom, and their unique cat live on a sandy bluff overlooking Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Whitney has enjoyed a normal childhood, unaware of the unique gifts lying dormant deep inside her. But the summer of her thirteenth birthday changes everything! Strange new talents surface that can't be ignored or explained. On top of all that, she suddenly misses a father she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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Summary: When their portal is destroyed the two young ‘chosen ones’ are lost between Earth and Yagdi. Whitney and Edward are thrown into a world of darkness with no way to communicate. On top of that, their powers have disappeared. Desperate to find a way out, a stranger claiming to be a wizard appears out of nowhere. He offers to help the teens escape a dangerous wizard clan and their ruthless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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Summary: In Book Two of The Polar Bear and the Dragon series, Whitney and Edward, two teenagers with extraordinary talents, must protect Aiden, a young dragon destined to become the ruler of Yagdi. Aiden will mature into a majestic dragon with vast and formidable skills but remains helpless until that transformation takes place. A dangerous enemy is determined to rule Yagdi, but the young dragon stands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WATChima, Cinda Williams
Summary: "As the two sides prepare for an apocalyptic battle, Eiric, Reginn, and Liv find allies and enemies in unexpected places and draw on new strengths as they seek to prevent the destruction of the last of the Nine Worlds"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHILloyd, Natalie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Olive suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life. When she is finally allowed to attend school in person, she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy. Olive hopes to find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby. If she can prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted. - adapted from run-on sentence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LLOKrause, Autumn
Summary: In 1836 Wisconsin, Catalina's determination to keep her family alive is tested when a bark-covered man abducts her brother, prompting her to delve into a world of strange beasts and tormented spirits as she uncovers the deep-rooted connection between her fate and the Man of Sap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KRAJensen, Gry Kappel
Summary: Rosewood Boarding School is a school for magic, deeply embedded in Nordic mythology, nature magic and shamanism. All of the students have powers. Four girls from different parts of Denmark have been invited to apply for a reason that is as yet unknown to themselves. During the unorthodox application tests it becomes apparent that a spirit is trying to establish contact with the girls: a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JENKawaguchi, Toshikazu
Summary: In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWSathian, Sanjena
Summary: "An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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Summary: Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson. When they strike up an affair, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAICooper, Thomas
Summary: "Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses--a moribund motel and shabby amusement park--endangered but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOSerle, Rebecca
Summary: When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SERKawaguchi, Toshikazu
Summary: In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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Summary: "A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges. From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old recluse Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide. Myra's stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURKawaguchi, Toshikazu
Summary: "From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Café comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer. Along with some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister and a lover, each with something they wish they had said...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWFawcett, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: "In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAWMiller, Alice
Summary: "On the eve of World War I, Georgie Hyde-Lees-on her own for the first time-is introduced to the acclaimed poet W. B. Yeats at a soirée in London. Although Yeats is famously eccentric and many years her senior, Georgie is drawn to him, and when he extends a cryptic invitation to a secret society, her life is forever changed. A shadow falls over London as zeppelins stalk overhead and bombs bloom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILHudson, Genevieve (Genevieve Katherine)
Summary: "A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new 'home' - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion--seemingly intertwined--permeate everything. While his parents don't know what to make of an American South pining for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUDStead, Rebecca
Summary: "When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STEThao, Dustin
Summary: Julie Clarke, de diecisiete años, tiene todo su futuro planeado: marcharse de su pequeño pueblo junto a su novio, Sam, ir a la universidad en la ciudad, pasar un verano en Japón. Pero entonces Sam muere. Y todo cambia. Desesperada por escucharle una vez más, Julie llama al móvil de Sam para escuchar la grabación de su buzón de voz. Y Sam coge el teléfono.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones Kiwiw 2022
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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH THACameron, Sophie
Summary: "Ten days after Jaya Mackenzie's mum dies, angels start falling from the sky. Smashing down to earth at extraordinary speeds, wings bent, faces contorted, not a single one has survived. Hysteria mounting with every Being that drops, Jaya's father uproots the family to Edinburgh intent on catching one alive. But Jaya can't stand this obsession and, struggling to make sense of her mother's sudden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CAMFord, Jamie
Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORRoanhorse, Rebecca
Summary: "The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022