Grimes, Shaunta
Summary: "Life is complicated. Especially when you're a high school senior, six feet tall, 312 pounds, and a girl. Celly Boucher is used to being bullied and having problems. But lately, her list of problems is growing. The boy she loves turned down her spring dance invitation in front of the whole class. She let down her best friend, who is also her only friend. Her little sister is petite, pretty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRIReyes, Sonora
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYHo, Joanna
Summary: In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOMcGinnis, Mindy
Summary: After her brother's suicide, Neely works as a tour guide in the caverns where she meets beautiful, strong, confident Mila, but when a drug-fueled midnight staff party results in Mila's brutal murder, Neely must figure out who killed her - and face the possibility it might've been her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCGKane, Darby
Summary: Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn’t know died by suicide. A tenuous link—one text—bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANRahman, Yasmin
Summary: Suffering from anxiety and depression, sixteen-year-old Mehreen Miah joins MementoMori, a website that allocates matches a method and date of death, and meets Cara and Olivia, but as the girls grow closer they realize the value of living, starting a sinister game as the website will not let them go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FC RAHWilkins, Joe
Summary: "A poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an aging rancher, and a woman at a crossroads, who find unexpected solace in the family they make."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSax, Sam
Summary: In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains and joys that made them into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SAXBlackburn, Venita
Summary: Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLATietjen, Katie
Summary: Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TIEGiffin, Emily
Summary: Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, a California party girl with a flair for drama; Tyson, a brilliant scholar and law school hopeful from D.C.; Summer, a recruited athlete and perfectionist from the Midwest; and Hannah, a mild-mannered southerner who is content to quietly round out the circle of big personalities. Soon after moving into their shared dorm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIFMedina, Nick
Summary: "A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MEDWinters, Ben H.
Summary: When the Earth is doomed by an imminent and unavoidable asteroid collision, New Hampshire homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares abou--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2013
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINWiley, Soon
Summary: In Seoul, South Korea, Min, devastated by the suicide of his girlfriend, throws himself into finding out why she wanted to die, and the more he learns about her, the more he realizes he never really knew her at all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: "Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell." Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Loving, loyal, and fierce, Suki is Dell's own wolf--her protector. But who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Carter von Oehson posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. When no body turns up, Carter's father knows he's still alive. He only trusts Dr. Dylan Reinhart and Elizabeth Needham with the secret to how he knows this.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATBishop, Jenn
Summary: "Nothing is going right this summer for Drew. And after losing his dad unexpectedly three years ago, Drew knows a lot about things not going right. First, it's the new girl Audrey taking over everything at the library, Drew's sacred space. Then it's his best friend, Filipe, pulling away from him. But most upsetting has to be the mysterious man who is suddenly staying with Drew's family. An old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BISCook, Robin
Summary: "Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. She insists a pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, and when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an apparent death by suicide,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOKoppelman, Amy
Summary: We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813 KOPForbes, Lani
Summary: To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime--the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022