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Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound...
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lina wants to create a viral video to help her mom's business, but as she navigates the world of likes and views with her two best friends, Lina must find the courage to stay true to her authentic self.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Rodriguez has had a tough life. She tells her story, starting with the moment her mother tries to escape their company town by very nearly driving Andrea's dad's car off a cliff. Luis moved his family to the small town of Woronoco, Massachusetts, following the 1950s promise of prosperity. At that time and in that place, Mr. Rodriguez's pursuit of the American dream signifies an alienating pesadilla (nightmare) for Mrs. Rodriguez, making her...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife--a knife Eunju hasn't seen in more than thirty years, and that connects her to a place she'd desperately hoped to leave behind forever. In South Korea in the 1980s, young Eunju and her mother are homeless on the street. After being captured by the police, they're sent to live within the walls of a state-sanctioned reformatory center...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du Marche's home in vibrant New Orleans, Ady takes in the city...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years. When...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren-which Jenny never had-Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva's hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution...
11) Gather
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends,...
Author
Series
Daughter of Arden volume 1
Publisher
Bandersnatch Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"I will give you three days in which to choose your fate." No matter which choice Maleen made, it appeared bondage was the life her father lay before her. In this retelling of the Grimm's tale, "Maid Maleen," war advances on the nation of Arden. To keep Princess Maleen safe, the king gives her two options: marriage to a prince she doesn't love or retreat in a tower protected by the work of a Stone Sage. Hoping that her beloved Prince Melanor will...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aubry Tourvel is 9 when she and her sisters, Pauline and Sylvie, stumble across a strange well in a courtyard secreted between empty apartment buildings. The well is made of smooth gray stone, and its opening has been carved to resemble a face. The siblings assume it's a wishing well, and because the papers are full of terrible news, each resolves to sacrifice something precious for the greater good. Pauline drops in a gold chain to stop the socialists...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on her beloved farm. But she does see "pictures" that foretell various incidents and accidents and begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about, because he's Black, and her parents are racist. Weighed by a depression she can't seem to shake, Belaen...
16) The atlas of us
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Atlas 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. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her team-Books,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
18) Dazzling
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to bring Treasure's beloved father back to life if she'll do one terrible thing for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back. It's an itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny,...
Author
Publisher
Heron Bay Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Set in the Upper Midwest, 1952-1991, this is the story of Callie Lindstrom, a feisty girl who shares a special bond with her father and his love for the outdoors. Accepted into the world of men and witness to their dreams, struggles, and sense of humor, Callie learns to navigate waves of family conflict and loss while realizing her own place in the world.
20) Wandering
Author
Series
Daughter of Arden volume 2
Publisher
Bandersnatch Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"We must be careful. These times are treacherous, and we know nothing." Princess Maleen and her maidservant Marietta survived three years of exile in a tower only to escape and discover their kingdom's capital, Ardenay, in ruins. Now Maleen must forge ahead and make decisions about her future, even though she has no idea what happened to her country or to her father, King Darrick. Why didn't Pandor and Prince Melanor come to their aid? What happened...
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