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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. These two, who have practically nothing in common, meet for the first time on New Year's Eve. And then again on Valentine's Day. And then again on St. Patrick's Day. It's almost like the universe is pushing them together for a reason. As their holiday meetings continue, the two begin to fall for...
2) Dark Dude
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Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.
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Series
DC icons volume 1
Language
English
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"Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What begins as a way to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly becomes the education of a lifetime as Lizzy wades through the day-to-day humdrum and drama of this ramshackle refuge for...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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2023 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List
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"In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking journey Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Language
English
Description
After Emma returns home from boarding school, she realizes her mother's suffering from a schizophrenic break, and suddenly Emma's entire childhood and identity is called into question, pushing her to turn to her boyfriend Daniel for answers--but perhaps it's the brooding Phil who Emma meets while visiting her mother at the hospital who really understands her.
14) My good man
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Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Description
"Brian, a 20-something reporter on the Niagara Cascade's City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, being lumped into reporting on stereotypical stories that homogenize his community, the nearby Tuscarora reservation. But when a mysterious roadside assault lands Tim, the brother of Brian's mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian must pick up the threads of a life that he's abandoned. The resulting narrative...
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English
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
16) Beloved: a novel
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English
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
17) Temple boys
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Flea, the least significant member of a gang of teens who sleep next to the Temple walls in first-century Jerusalem, witnesses Christ's passion and resurrection, torn between Jude, who protects Flea and employes him to run errands, and a brutal Roman spy determined to uncover the truth about "the Magician."
18) The poet X
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English
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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined...
19) Hidden
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.
20) The good son
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Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes the gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a devastating crime. 352pp., 150K
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