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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD
Don't miss Kaitlyn Greenidge's second novel, Libertie, which is available now!
"A terrifically auspicious debut." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Smart, timely and powerful . . . A rich examination of America's treatment of race, and the ways we attempt to discuss and confront it today." -The Huffington Post
The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel,...
22) Dream country
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--
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Series
Vanderbeekers volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.
27) A night divided
Author
Language
English
Description
When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
28) Dalva
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Now available in eBook for the first time, Dalva is one of the finest novels by New York Times bestselling, much beloved author Jim Harrison: a beautifully crafted story of one woman's journey to find her son. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of...
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Series
The Penderwicks volume 2
Language
English
Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
30) Arise
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dark spirits and ill omens arise as Amelia, a ghost still trapped somewhere between life and death, continues to fight for her relationship with the human boy Joshua"--
31) Chickadee
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 4
Language
English
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Description
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Author
Language
English
Description
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
A National Bestseller
Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022
Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022
An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021
An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction
Author
Series
Moffats volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures and misadventures of ten-year-old Jane Moffat living with her widowed mother and three siblings in their new home in Cranbury, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century.
35) Never look back
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
36) Rainbow Valley
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 7
Language
English
Description
The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley.
38) Bridge of Clay
Author
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
39) Cemetery boys
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
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