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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Verble, M.
1 available
Verble, M.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Verble, M.
1 available
Verble, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Verble, M.
1 available
Verble, M.
1 available
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"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
Description
"Teeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Jimenez, C.
1 available
Jimenez, C.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Jimenez, C.
1 available
Jimenez, C.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Jiménez, C.
1 available
Jiménez, C.
1 available
South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Jiménez, C.
1 available
Jiménez, C.
1 available
Description
"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left...
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Nellums, E.
1 available
Nellums, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Mysteries - Adult
Nellums, E.
1 available
Nellums, E.
1 available
South Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Nellums, E.
1 available
Nellums, E.
1 available
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"There's plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient, but Aoife's sure her mama won't be able to come home until Aoife learns what really happened to her brother. The trouble is no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. But by whom? With her imaginary...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Gyasi, Y.
2 available
Gyasi, Y.
2 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Johns, J.
1 available
Johns, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Johns, J.
1 available
Johns, J.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Johns, J.
1 available
Johns, J.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Johns, J.
1 available
Johns, J.
1 available
Description
"Night after night, Mackenzie's dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina's untimely death- a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too - crows stalk her every move around the city; she gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina - Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone. Travelling north to her rural hometown...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Castro, V.
1 available
Castro, V.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Castro, V.
1 available
Castro, V.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Castro, V.
1 available
Castro, V.
1 available
Description
"A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel"--
Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Castillo, E.
1 available
Castillo, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Castillo, E.
1 available
Castillo, E.
1 available
Description
After fleeing the Philippines, Hero De Vera arrives at her uncles where she is given a fresh start. He asks no questions about her disturbing political past, but his daughter, the first American-born family member, is unable to resist her curiosity especially about her cousin's damaged hands.