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Dark matter : a novel / Blake Crouch.
Crouch, Blake,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Cro Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781101904244
Pub. Info: New York : Broadway Books, [2017]
Target Audience: 11-Adult.
Originally published: New York : Crown, 2016.
Includes readers' guide.
Before a masked abductor knocks him unconscious, the last words Jason Dessen hears are, "Are you happy with your life?" He wakes to find a stranger staring down at him, calling him friend. His wife is not his wife. His child was never born. He is not a simple college physics professor anymore but a celebrated genius who has achieved the unimaginable. Jason wants to go back to the other world, to the family he loves, but to do so will require a terrifying journey to confront a seemingly unbeatable foe.
Crouch, Blake,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Cro Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781101904244
Pub. Info: New York : Broadway Books, [2017]
Target Audience: 11-Adult.
Originally published: New York : Crown, 2016.
Includes readers' guide.
Before a masked abductor knocks him unconscious, the last words Jason Dessen hears are, "Are you happy with your life?" He wakes to find a stranger staring down at him, calling him friend. His wife is not his wife. His child was never born. He is not a simple college physics professor anymore but a celebrated genius who has achieved the unimaginable. Jason wants to go back to the other world, to the family he loves, but to do so will require a terrifying journey to confront a seemingly unbeatable foe.
This motherless land : a novel / Nikki May.
May, Nikki,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F May Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063084292 :
Pub. Info: copyright 2024
Target Audience: Ages 16 & Up. Grades 11 & Up.
"Originally published asThis Motherless Land in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Doubleday."--Title page verso.
From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a "vibrant" (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she's sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother's stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated, the food tasteless, the weather grey. Worse still, her mother's family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv. Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends. But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart. Against the long shadow of their shared family history, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward, separated by country, misunderstanding, and ambition. Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family's generational wrongs can be righted.
May, Nikki,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F May Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063084292 :
Pub. Info: copyright 2024
Target Audience: Ages 16 & Up. Grades 11 & Up.
"Originally published asThis Motherless Land in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Doubleday."--Title page verso.
From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a "vibrant" (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she's sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother's stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated, the food tasteless, the weather grey. Worse still, her mother's family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv. Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends. But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart. Against the long shadow of their shared family history, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward, separated by country, misunderstanding, and ambition. Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family's generational wrongs can be righted.
Ash's cabin / Jen Wang.
Wang, Jen,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 741.5 Wan Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781250754059 :
Pub. Info: New York : First Second, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than in fighting for change. Even Ash's family seems to be sleepwalking through life. The only person who ever seemed to get Ash was their Grandpa Edwin. Before he died, he used to talk about building a secret cabin, deep in the California wilderness. Did he ever build it? What if it's still there, waiting for him to come back...or for Ash to find it? To Ash, that maybe-mythical cabin is starting to feel like the perfect place for a fresh start and an escape from the miserable feeling of alienation that haunts their daily life. But making the wilds your home isn't easy. And as much as Ash wants to be alone...can they really be happy alone? Can they survive alone?." -- Provided by publisher
Wang, Jen,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 741.5 Wan Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781250754059 :
Pub. Info: New York : First Second, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than in fighting for change. Even Ash's family seems to be sleepwalking through life. The only person who ever seemed to get Ash was their Grandpa Edwin. Before he died, he used to talk about building a secret cabin, deep in the California wilderness. Did he ever build it? What if it's still there, waiting for him to come back...or for Ash to find it? To Ash, that maybe-mythical cabin is starting to feel like the perfect place for a fresh start and an escape from the miserable feeling of alienation that haunts their daily life. But making the wilds your home isn't easy. And as much as Ash wants to be alone...can they really be happy alone? Can they survive alone?." -- Provided by publisher
Mina's matchbox / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
Ogawa, Yoko,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Oga Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593316085 :
Pub. Info: New York : Pantheon Books, [2024]
Target Audience: Ages 16 & Up. Grades 11 & Up.
"Originally published in serialized form in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005. Originally published in paperback in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo, in 2006."
"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion-Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end.? Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand-her uncle's mysterious absences, her German grandmother's experience of WWII, and her aunt's misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time-and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse"--Provided by publisher.
Ogawa, Yoko,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Oga Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593316085 :
Pub. Info: New York : Pantheon Books, [2024]
Target Audience: Ages 16 & Up. Grades 11 & Up.
"Originally published in serialized form in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005. Originally published in paperback in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo, in 2006."
"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion-Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end.? Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand-her uncle's mysterious absences, her German grandmother's experience of WWII, and her aunt's misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time-and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse"--Provided by publisher.
Young Hag and the witches' quest / by Isabel Greenberg.
Greenberg, Isabel,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 741.5 Gre Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781419765117 :
Pub. Info: New York : Amulet Books, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"Once there was magic in Britain. There were shape shifters and dragons and wizards and kings that pulled swords out of stones and green knights. But now the doors to The Otherworld have closed, and all the magic is gone. Young Hag and her grandmother, Ancient Crone, are the last of the witches in Britain though they don't have powers. Their magic was taken away by a generations-old curse--at least, that's what Ancient Crone has always told her. But Young Hag doesn't believe in it. If magic is real, why couldn't it save her mother's life? Young Hag is sick of her Grandmother's stories of family curses, faerie doors, lost magic, and ancient swords. But then one day they find an abandoned baby in the woods and realize it's a changeling. Confronted with real magic at last, Young Hag has no choice but to believe. She must get the changeling baby and the mythical sword Excalibur back through the last faerie door before it closes forever. As Young Hag travels through an ever-weirder landscape, we meet a variety of characters: The Green Knight, The Lady of The Lake, Merlin, Taliesin The Bard, and even Morgan Le Fay. But when faced with magic and myth, does Young Hag have any chance of succeeding and bringing back her family's magic? Or is she doomed to become just another tragic tale?"--Provided by publisher.
Greenberg, Isabel,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 741.5 Gre Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781419765117 :
Pub. Info: New York : Amulet Books, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"Once there was magic in Britain. There were shape shifters and dragons and wizards and kings that pulled swords out of stones and green knights. But now the doors to The Otherworld have closed, and all the magic is gone. Young Hag and her grandmother, Ancient Crone, are the last of the witches in Britain though they don't have powers. Their magic was taken away by a generations-old curse--at least, that's what Ancient Crone has always told her. But Young Hag doesn't believe in it. If magic is real, why couldn't it save her mother's life? Young Hag is sick of her Grandmother's stories of family curses, faerie doors, lost magic, and ancient swords. But then one day they find an abandoned baby in the woods and realize it's a changeling. Confronted with real magic at last, Young Hag has no choice but to believe. She must get the changeling baby and the mythical sword Excalibur back through the last faerie door before it closes forever. As Young Hag travels through an ever-weirder landscape, we meet a variety of characters: The Green Knight, The Lady of The Lake, Merlin, Taliesin The Bard, and even Morgan Le Fay. But when faced with magic and myth, does Young Hag have any chance of succeeding and bringing back her family's magic? Or is she doomed to become just another tragic tale?"--Provided by publisher.
Eighteen roses / Shannon C.F. Rogers.
Rogers, Shannon C. F.,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Rog Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781250845733 :
Pub. Info: New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 15 &Up. Grades 10 & Up.
Filipina American Lucia grapples with teenage angst, family expectations, and friendship woes as she reluctantly prepares for her debutante ball.
Rogers, Shannon C. F.,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Rog Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781250845733 :
Pub. Info: New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 15 &Up. Grades 10 & Up.
Filipina American Lucia grapples with teenage angst, family expectations, and friendship woes as she reluctantly prepares for her debutante ball.
Libertad / Bessie Flores Zaldivar.
Zaldiivar, Bessie Flores,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Zal Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593696125 :
Pub. Info: New York, New York : Dial Books, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up. HL740L Lexile.
As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner of the city, life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, churns louder and faster. For her part, high school senior Libertad (Libi) Morazan takes heart in writing political poetry for her anonymous Instagram account and a budding romance with someone new. But things come to a head when Mami sees texts on her phone mentioning a kiss with a girl and Libi discovers her beloved older brother, Maynor, playing a major role in the protests. As Libertad faces the political and social corruption around her, stifling homophobia at home and school, and ramped up threats to her poetry online, she begins dreaming of a future in which she doesn't have to hide who she is or worry about someone she loves losing their life just for speaking up. Then the ultimate tragedy strikes, and leaving her family and friends--plus the only home she's ever known--might be her only option.
Zaldiivar, Bessie Flores,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Zal Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593696125 :
Pub. Info: New York, New York : Dial Books, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up. HL740L Lexile.
As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner of the city, life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, churns louder and faster. For her part, high school senior Libertad (Libi) Morazan takes heart in writing political poetry for her anonymous Instagram account and a budding romance with someone new. But things come to a head when Mami sees texts on her phone mentioning a kiss with a girl and Libi discovers her beloved older brother, Maynor, playing a major role in the protests. As Libertad faces the political and social corruption around her, stifling homophobia at home and school, and ramped up threats to her poetry online, she begins dreaming of a future in which she doesn't have to hide who she is or worry about someone she loves losing their life just for speaking up. Then the ultimate tragedy strikes, and leaving her family and friends--plus the only home she's ever known--might be her only option.
Everything we never had / Randy Ribay.
Ribay, Randy,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Rib Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593461419 :
Pub. Info: New York : Kokila, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 16 & Up. Grades 11 & Up. 820L Lexile.
"Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships"--Provided by publisher.
Ribay, Randy,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Rib Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593461419 :
Pub. Info: New York : Kokila, 2024.
Target Audience: Ages 16 & Up. Grades 11 & Up. 820L Lexile.
"Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships"--Provided by publisher.
Second chance summer / Morgan Matson.
Matson, Morgan.
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Mat Collection: TX
ISBN: 0800019539
Pub. Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013.
Target Audience: 960 Lexile. 7-12 Perma-Bound Books. 6.0 Perma-Bound Books.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.0 18.0 IN.
Returning to her family's lake house years after a mortifying mistake, Taylor must confront her past, the boy she left behind, and her father's terminal cancer.
Matson, Morgan.
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F Mat Collection: TX
ISBN: 0800019539
Pub. Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013.
Target Audience: 960 Lexile. 7-12 Perma-Bound Books. 6.0 Perma-Bound Books.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.0 18.0 IN.
Returning to her family's lake house years after a mortifying mistake, Taylor must confront her past, the boy she left behind, and her father's terminal cancer.
Me and Earl and the dying girl : a novel / Jesse Andrews.
Andrews, Jesse.
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F And Collection: TX
ISBN: 0605911045
Pub. Info: New York : Amulet Books, 2015.
Target Audience: 820 Lexile. 9+ Perma-Bound Books. 5.2 Perma-Bound Books.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 8.0 IN.
Seventeen-year-old Greg has become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Andrews, Jesse.
Branch: 0018
Call Number: F And Collection: TX
ISBN: 0605911045
Pub. Info: New York : Amulet Books, 2015.
Target Audience: 820 Lexile. 9+ Perma-Bound Books. 5.2 Perma-Bound Books.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 8.0 IN.
Seventeen-year-old Greg has become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.