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Mallery, Susan

Summary: As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salon, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter to her 'other' family as Summer grows closer to her stepmum, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one call. From prison. Her husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, scared and alone with a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MAL

King, A. S. (Amy Sarig)

Summary: Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KIN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KIN

Liao, Jenny

Summary: Chinese American Zia helps her mom tell her classmates about her job as a seamstress through translation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIA

Cox, Amanda

Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COX

Johnston, Aviaq

Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOH

Higuera, Donna Barba

Summary: Petra Peña, wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children, among them Petra and her family, have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet, and the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HIG

Summary: An empowering message inspired by a beloved quote from Madeleine L'Engle's enduring classic A Wrinkle in Time. "Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs. Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now." This picture book encourages girls everywhere to proudly share their ideas and emotions, even if those traits will be met with resistance. Because being brave, sensitive, stubborn, curious, loud,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STA

Dwyer, Kristin

Summary: Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DWY

Levi, Taltal

Summary: Both small and full of life, Ellie and a new avocado plant grow up together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEV

Lowe, Mari

Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOW

Fajardo, Kat

Summary: "Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceañera for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Scarry, Richard

Summary: Bridget spends a day at work with her father, Sergeant Murphy, and learns what an important job being a police officer is.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Golden book 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCA

Hourigan, Erin

Summary: A little girl whose father's world goes from bright and yellow to dark and blue gets frustrated when she is unable to help him, but knows that together, they can do anything.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOU

Callender, Kacen

Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAL

Alston, Bria

Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALS

Nyoko, Mel

Summary: A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NYO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYO

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: The heartwarming classic is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2024

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: Recent widow Kezia Cooper Hobson moves to New York City for a fresh start closer to her adult daughters. When a crisis strikes the city, Kezia bonds with the man who lives next door. But her daughters disapprove.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Fipps, Lisa

Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIP

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRA

Steel, Danielle

Summary: While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Weiner, Andrew

Summary: To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEI

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WEI (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Steel, Danielle

Summary: "Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACE

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