Lloyd, Toby
Summary: A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch. Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLOBenway, Robin
Summary: Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENSambury, Liselle
Summary: When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMTempler, Hannah
Summary: Amy and Dan find themselves in Vienna, where they search for clues while evading their enemies, and attempt to discover the truth about their famous ancestors, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Nannerl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC TEMGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people. But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is suddenly spending their time at the hospital. And soon they are helping a critically ill friend, even as they struggle with how their own lives have turned upside down.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GLANelson, Jandy
Summary: Told in alternating voices, the Fall siblings each encounter the mysterious Cassidy at integral points in their lives, helping them untangle their relationships and uncover the truth about their father's disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NELAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: "When Nadia and Nadir have nothing to do one summer afternoon, they decide to follow a video tutorial to make their own slime. They learn to follow rules for safe play and try to convince their parents to allow them to sell home-made slime to save up for supplies" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR PURPLE ABBWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURPeppins, Brianna
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Novah feels like her life has been put on hold, taking care of her four younger siblings while her older sister Ariana gets to play volleyball and hang out--but when their parents are killed in a car crash Ariana and Novah will have to learn to cooperate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PEPJackson, Lisa
Summary: "All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders, has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JACSteel, Danielle
Summary: Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a beautiful historic Manhattan mansion. Now, with a nearly empty nest, it's easier than ever for the Whittiers to maintain their tradition of a solo romantic Wintermoon ski trip. But with this year's trip comes tragedy, and suddenly the Whittier's adult children find themselves reuniting in...
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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 STEWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WILFriedland, Elyssa
Summary: "The four Potter children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet, as adults, their financial lives--as well as their personal lives--are in complete disarray. The siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore home on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRIBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: "Rosa Petersheim has disappeared from the Big Valley without a trace. Norman always considered himself his sister's protector and can't believe she would have left home of her own accord ----so he must have failed her. He throws all he has into helping the authorities search for Rosa, while trying to support his parents and siblings who are struggling both mentally and physically. Salina...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRUPérez, Elba Iris
Summary: In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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Summary: From the outside, Renee Goh's life looks perfect. She's thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous--and profitable--women's clothing company in London, and is dating a hot Taiwanese pop star. But Renee is lonely. Estranged from her family in Singapore, she practically lives at the office, and now she's just been dumped by her supposed boyfriend. Who she never saw anyway, so why is she ruining her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bramble
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHODave, Laura
Summary: When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2024
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Summary: "When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVGeorge, Alex.
Summary: The Meisenheimer family struggles to find its place among the colorful residents of its new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Cengage Learning 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEOBrennan, Allison
Summary: "After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREDowning, Samantha
Summary: "In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWBrennan, Allison
Summary: "Working alone as a private investigator is tough. Estranged from her PI family, Margo Angelhart does what she must to get by--including taking on sordid cases that pay the bills, even if she'd rather be helping those the justice system has failed. That is, until a cheating husband case she's working intersects with her siblings' corporate espionage investigation, forcing Margo to cooperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press / Cengage Gale