Gupta, Ruchira
Summary: Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GUPOwen, Margaret
Summary: "Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Summary: "To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DESWoods, Kell
Summary: "After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOODesai, Sara
Summary: "Diamond necklaces, billionaires, Mafia bosses, and student loans-it's all in a day's work for Simi Chopra and her ragtag heist crew in the next romantic-comedy caper from Sara Desai. It's been a year since Simi Chopra's motley crew pulled off a high-wire diamond necklace heist with the help of sexy rogue Jack Danger. After living it up on the reward money, they're back where they started,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEIoka, Waco
Summary: "Aoi is finally ready to open her restaurant on the grounds of the Tenjin-ya inn, but not everyone is as excited about it as she is. Some of the chefs of the main restaurant are doing everything they can to destroy her business before it even has a chance to start! Aoi is determined to keep going, but her detractors are deadly serious about stopping her"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAKIoka, Waco
Summary: "Faced with the choice of being married to a strange spirit or being made into dinner, Aoi decides to create a third option for herself! Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ media, LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAKKinsella, Sophie.
Summary: Becky Bloomwood is bored to death writing for Successful Saving. So, with a handsome credit line from her bank, she liberates herself the best way she knows how -- by shopping! Think of it as an investment, she tells herself. But, soon she is buried in bank notices and cursed VISA bills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINNodarse, Alejandro
Summary: ""Blood in The Cut brims with dangerous energy in the face of existential entropy. A fantastic story." -S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone, his grief-stricken father Armando is deep in debt, and they are about to lose the butcher shop that has been in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NODIoka, Waco
Summary: "Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get eaten by demons. But Aoi isn't the type to let spirits push her around, and she's determined to redeem her grandfather's IOU on her own ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAKYuma, Midori
Summary: "Aoi wasn't the only orphan her grandfather Shiro took in. Before she went to live with him, he rescued the spider demons Akatsuki and Suzuran and put them to work as unpaid servants. Now Aoi is questioning everything she thought she knew about her upbringing. What was Shiro up to? And more importantly--does that make the spider demons family?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAKKadrey, Richard
Summary: "James Stark is back from Hell, trailing more trouble in his wake. To return to L.A., he had to make a deal with the evil power brokers Wormwood--an arrangement that came with a catch. While he may be home, Stark isn't quite himself...because he is only partially alive. There's a time limit on his reanimated body, and unless Stark can find the people targeting Wormwood, he will die again--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADStevens, Jessi Jezewska
Summary: "With her novels, The Exhibition of Persephone Q, and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short fiction--originally appearing in such venues as The Paris Review , Harper's, and Tin House --some of her very best work is at last readily available to readers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STEVee, Julia
Summary: "Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: "Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them. Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get eaten by ayakashi. But Aoi isn't the type to let spirits push her around, and she's determined to redeem her grandfather's IOU on her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019
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2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAKHunter, Denise
Summary: Contractor Wes Mathews is hiking the Appalachian Trail in honor of his recently deceased best friend when he falls terribly ill when he's nearly finished. He stumbles into Riverbend Gap, the nearest town, and finds himself indebted to the doctor who owns the clinic. In lieu of payment, he proposes a trade that will keep him in town-- and away from obligations to his best friend's sister-- for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNKinsella, Sophie.
Summary: Financial journalist Rebecca Bloomwood seeks solace from the boredom and pressures in life with her shopping, a solution that brings her close to financial disaster, until she encounters a story that will change her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINHeyer, Georgette
Summary: What seems a marriage of convenience... When young newlywed Lady Nell Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the earl has to wonder whether she really did marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. And now Nell doesn't dare tell him the truth ... Is getting trickier all the time... He thought he was marrying for love, but between his concern over his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012
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Hodgson, Antonia.
Summary: It's 1727. Tom Hawkins prefers wine, women, and cards. But he's honorable and won't pull family strings to get out of debt, not even when faced with the notorious debtors' prison: The Marshalsea Gaol. Within moments of his arrival, Hawkins learns there's a murderer on the loose. He accepts an offer of a room from the mysterious Samuel Fleet, only to find out that it was Fleet's last roommate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HODDaly-Weir, Catherine
Summary: "An early chapter book designed to help kids decipher finance facts and fallacies. Lucy and her best friend, Julian, find out about the pros and cons of gift cards versus credit cards"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Press, an imprint of ASTRA Books for young readers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DALRosewater, Kit
Summary: Ever since they can remember, fifth-graders Kenzie (aka Kenzilla) and Shelly (aka Bomb Shell) have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin's city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates. But they'll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ROSFforde, Jasper.
Summary: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSchwartz, Leanne
Summary: "Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa as a haven for his followers, but to keep the devil at bay, the church sends a child sacrifice to hell's entrance every season--often poor or plain girls just like Alesta. With a head full of ideas for inventions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHRosewater, Kit
Summary: "Fifth-grade best friends Kenzie "Kenzilla" and Shelly "Bombshell" dream of becoming roller derby superstars one day, but when a junior league forms and they must recruit teammates, will their friendship survive?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020