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"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
Having fled conflict in the former-Soviet Republic of Georgia as children, Saba and his brother have fought to make peace with the past. In particular, they struggle with the sacrifices of a mother who remained in a war...
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308 pages ; 22 cm
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"In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...
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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
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Love puppies volume 5
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121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"Yip! Yip! Hooray! A little magic can save the day! Noodles is so excited for her cousin Curlicue to visit! But when duty calls, the pups have to put their fun plans on hold to help Magnolia. Her two moms are so busy taking care of Magnolia's new baby brother that she feels forgotten. Can Curlicue and the Love Puppies find a way to make sure Magnolia feels loved and included in her family again? With a little bit of magic and a whole lot of kindness,...
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Mia Mayhem volume no. 9
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121 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Joining other students and their parents for family field day at PITS, Mia joins in potato sack races, a game of tug-of-war and a hula hoop ring toss that becomes increasingly dangerous as the region's most skilled superheroes compete to win.
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155 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"In a Rio de Janeiro suburb in the 1970s, a family - the parents, their daughter, and crippled teenage son Camilo - take in an orphan named Cosme. The teen boys unexpectedly fall in love, but their intimate world is shattered when Cosme is killed by a neighbor in a brutal hate crime. Decades later, Camilo returns to his hometown, still haunted by this violence and the long shadow of Brazil's military dictatorship. A fluid, queer coming-of-age story...
7) Underburn
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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"Iris Flynn is an acerbic, self-sufficient seventy-three-year-old widow with a minor Hollywood career in her past and some streamlined kitchen cabinets inspired by Marie Kondo. Her composed and simplified existence is disrupted when her son Frank lands on her doorstep after his rental home is destroyed in a wildfire, the latest in a string of personal setbacks for Frank. He arrives with Logan, his young and handsome boyfriend, a featured extra on...
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(Virginia C.).Sutherland volume 2
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259 pages ; 22 cm.
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"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
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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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310 pages ; 24 cm
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"Moving back and forth from the tumultuous years surrounding Partition to the era of renewed global sectarianism following 9/11, this extraordinary historical novel portrays a family and nations divided by the living legacy of colonialism"--
Lahore, British India. 1943. Animated by idealistic dreams of an independent India, Chhote Nanu agrees to plant a bomb intended for the British superintendent of police. Some four years later, following a torturous...
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313 pages ; 21 cm
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"Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to give up on her niece's dreams and tells her so at their secret yearly lunches. But all of Poppy's beliefs about herself are challenged when her beloved aunt dies and leaves her niece a grand surprise...
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Iggy volume 3
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111, 18 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Lovable troublemaker Iggy learns about the power of interpretation when one of his genius plans goes wrong.
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358 pages ; 20 cm
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"From bookfluencer and host of the Bad on paper podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friends in NYC who hold onto their unconventional Christmas tradition even when their paths diverge -- but the changes they fear might be exactly what they need ... Hannah and Finn have spent every Christmas together since college. Neither has anywhere else to go -- Hannah's parents died, and Finn's disowned him when he came out. Their tradition of offbeat...
14) No one can know
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324 pages ; 25 cm
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"The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant -- right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her...
15) Daughter
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251 pages ; 22 cm.
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"A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life -- and art -- of her own"--
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213 pages ; 22 cm
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"To save their father's life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of magical beings from Colombian folklore and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all--the Madremonte"--
Valentina wants to focus on drawing the real world around her and hopefully get into art school in Bogotá one day. Her Papi has spent his life studying Colombia's legendary creatures and searching for proof of their existence. When Papi hears that a patasola...
17) Ædnan: an epic
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426 pages ; 24 cm
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"The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational poem about a Sámi family's quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial schooling"--
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324 pages ; 24 cm
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"From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during a hurricane. Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still reeling from the fallout of her divorce--their move to Houston,...
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278 pages ; 24 cm
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"When her sister Esme leaves her high-society husband and needs a ride, Jane Conner imagines one reality where she tells Esme to crash with a friend and then 24 hours later she disappears, and another reality where she brings Esme back to Connecticut where they must reckon with an explosive secret from their past"--
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353 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"At her San Francisco art school, Joey enrolls in a film elective that requires her to complete what seems like a straightforward assignment: create a self-portrait. Joey inexplicably decides to remake Wes Anderson's Rushmore despite having never seen themovie. As Tell Me I'm An Artist unfolds over the course of the semester, the assignment hangs over her as she struggles to exist in a well-heeled world that is hugely different from any she has known....
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