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The Perfect Place
by Matt de la Peña
Lucas, whose life at home is not perfect, dreams of a strange light that leads him to the place where perfect people live, where everything is more beautiful than he ever could've imagined, but where things aren't as perfect as they seem.
Picture Book
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Let’s Go! Haw êkwa!
by Julie Flett
Longing to join the skateboarders in the park, a little boy, when his mom surprises him with her old skateboard, practices everywhere but when it comes time to try the skatepark, he must find the courage and confidence to make his debut.
Picture Book
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The Supernatural Files of CJ Delaney
by Carol Williams
Determined to get to the bottom of a supernatural occurrence at the old skatepark, kid reporter CJ Delaney races to save the town from evil, but due to a shocking turn of events, she stands to lose her byline and the people she loves.
Children's Fiction
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Wat Kept Playing: The Inspiring Story of Wataru Misaka and His Rise to the NBA
by Emily Inouye Huey
As the child of Japanese immigrants, Wataru "Wat" Misaka often felt like he didn't fully belong in either Japanese or American culture. He was sometimes excluded, treated differently, and bullied, even though he was born in the United States. As he grew up, however, Wat discovered he had a very special talent for playing basketball. Even at just five foot seven, he was unstoppable. Wat was a key player on his basketball teams, leading both his high school and college teams to victory in state and national championships. But could he finally achieve his dream of playing basketball professionally? Would people finally recognize Wat for who he truly was--a person who was both Japanese and American and an amazing basketball player? His story will inspire young readers to challenge barriers, dream big, and keep playing.
Children's Nonfiction
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The Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze
by Maple Lam
Percy Jackson meets Dragon Ball in the first book of this adorable, funny, and action-packed graphic novel series! Follow along as the legendary Monkey King tries to save the world from a mysterious new threat--and smashes his way through the world of ancient Greek mythology in the process!
Children's Graphic Novel
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American Tail
A Jewish-Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s. The courageous young Fievel braves the perils and wonders of a strange new world in a thrilling quest to find his family.
Children's DVD
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Frisco Kid
A sweetly innocent Polish rabbi travels through 1850s America toward his new congregation and wife in San Francisco. Along the way, he forms an uneasy alliance with an inept bank robber and the two cut a pratfall-filled path across the wild west.
Adult DVD
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King of Dead Things
by Nevin Holness
Three years ago, Eli found himself on the streets of London with no memory of his previous life. His now-best friends Max and Sunny found him and brought him to Pam, the owner of a magical sanctuary masquerading as a Jamaican takeaway. Pam trains Eli to use his magical talent, a rare gift that both allows him to heal and to pluck the magic from another person’s soul, and hires him and the other teens to run errands – many of them dangerous – for her. One of these is a mission to find Osebo’s fang, a powerful weapon that can absorb magic and kill gods. Their quest has them crossing paths with fellow teen Malcolm, who has inherited his father’s much-feared death magic, and who is searching for the means to save his mother. Together, the four teens must find the fang and put an end to the vicious killings of magical practitioners in their community. This fast-paced urban fantasy features excellent worldbuilding: even teens unfamiliar with the Caribbean folklore on which it is based will find themselves transported to a London where ghosts attend their own wakes, magic can be bartered and stolen, and a leopard god’s tooth can unmake the living and the dead.
Teen Fiction
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The Misdirection of Fault Lines
by Anna Gracia
The lives of three exceptional tennis players converge – or reconverge – at an elite tournament held at Bastille, a tennis academy in Florida. Alice arrives feeling directionless and overwhelmed with guilt and grief over the death of her father, who was her coach. Violetta’s life of sponsorships and social media looks perfect on the surface, but pressure from her former professional player mother to win at all costs is beginning to take its toll. And Leylah is returning to Bastille determined to prove she can play and win in spite of her Type 1 diabetes, and in defiance of her disastrous appearance at that same tournament two years ago. Assigned to be roommates for the week, the three girls will discover that they’ll have to face their challenges off the court if they want to achieve anything on it. Although the authenticity of the tennis tournament setting (the author is a former D1 collegiate player) will make this title appealing to sports fiction readers, Booklist Reviews also recommends it to fans of Leah Johnson’s Rise to the Sun and Crystal Maldonado’s No Filter and Other Lies because of its “heartfelt handling of emotions.”
Teen Fiction
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Bless Your Heart
by Lindy Ryan
In the summer of 1999, four generations of the Evans family, the proprietors of the only funeral home in their small southeast Texas town, witness town gossip Mina Jean Murphy rise from the dead – and immediately stake her through the heart. Matriarch Ducey and her daughter Lenore know this rising is just the beginning of the town’s problems and start to share with granddaughter Grace and great-granddaughter Luna the family knowledge of the bloodthirsty, undead strigoi, “sort of like zombies and vampires combined.” More townspeople turn up dead, and it seems like the Evans women may be the only ones prepared to save the state from being overrun, but, like the bodies that won’t stay buried, the family’s secrets are beginning to rise to the surface, as well. Library Journal Reviews says this horror/mystery hybrid is “bursting with serious scares, humor, and Southern charm” and recommends it to fans of Grady Hendrix and Rachel Harrison.
Adult Fiction
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One Last Word
by Suzanne Park
Sara Chae has developed an app, called One Last Word, which lets you draft messages to friends, loved ones, frenemies – anyone you would want to send a final message to -- that will be released only upon your death. The app is meant to be empowering, and Sara is determined to finish it and get it on the market, but she discovers a problem with it… in the worst way possible: when a different Sara Chae dies, the app releases all the messages this Sara Chae drunkenly uploaded to it. It’s bad enough that her parents and her former best friend now know how she really feels about them, but the app also delivered a message to her high school crush, Harry Shim… who also happens to be her mentor at her new venture capital internship. Now Sara and Harry have to figure out how to work together in spite of the awkwardness – and the rekindled feelings. In addition to the chemistry of the leads, Library Journal Reviews praises the “witty lines, touching reconciliation moments, and compelling career and romantic breakthroughs” of One Last Word, and Kirkus Reviews calls it a “fresh, modern story about learning to be honest.”
Adult Fiction
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Eat Like a Legend: Delicious, Super Easy Recipes to Perform at Your Peak
by Dan Churchill
The chef, athlete and performance coach, who has spent more than a decade coaching high performers, including Chris Hemsworth and Lindsay Vonn, to be “legendary eaters,” provides recipes packed with fiber, nutrients and other good stuff calibrated to enhance focus, determination, gut health, muscle mass and endurance.
Adult Nonfiction
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Home and Alone
by Daniel Stern
Inspiring as it is humorous, Stern weaves a compelling tale of an artistic hippie-child of the 60's, who by age thirteen had hitchhiked his way across the Eastern half of the U.S.A. By age seventeen he had dropped out of high school and was living on his own in New York, and by nineteen he was starting a family of his own. His insights into marriage, children, parents and parenting are not only hilarious, but packed with subtle wisdom. But the real surprises are in Stern's off-screen roles as a bronze sculptor, cattle rancher, avocado farmer and public servant. The hard work and commitment he has put into his on-screen successes are applied with the same intensity to every aspect of his life. From creating monumental public art projects and founding a Boys & Girls Club to visiting troops in Iraq and learning to birth a cow, he has lived it all. Home and Alone is for anyone who needs reminding that nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.
Adult Nonfiction
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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
by George Stephanopoulos
A former senior advisor to President Clinton, and for more than 20 years, the anchor of This Week and the co-anchor of Good Morning America, takes us into the White House Situation Room, the epicenter of crisis management where decisions are made that affect the lives of every person on this planet.
Adult Nonfiction
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A Cat from Our World and the Forgotten Witch 1
by Hiro Kashiwaba
In her youth, Jeanne was a powerful witch who vanquished the evil Demon King and saved the world--but over time, the people she rescued have forgotten her. Now she is a lonely old woman living in a secluded forest... until she accidentally summons a cat from Earth to her home! The former city kitty is now gigantic and must acclimate to this new world. Can a cat from another world soothe the loneliness of the forgotten witch?
Teen Graphic Novel
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I Feel Awful, Thanks
by Lara Pickle
Joana is a young witch who secured her dream job with a coven in London, her favorite city, where she can dedicate herself to creating potions, her favorite activity! However, she will soon discover the reality of city life is not so idyllic. Finding a flat is an ordeal, her 'dream job' is stressful, and she's totally alone. Little by little, she makes her place, but fatigue, sadness, and doubts threaten to topple her hard-earned success . . . until she starts talking to a professional who helps her realize in order to take care of herself, she must know herself.
Adult Graphic Novel
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Nena, y Roberta ¿dónde está?
by Marie Biskai
An Alzheimer's story where a girl and her grandmother travel through fantastical worlds in search of the grandmother's memory, which has run away. This story provides another possible perspective and invites to reader to converse in a playful manner about a disease that affects countless lives.
Una historia de Alzheimer donde una niña y su abuela viajan a través de mundos fantásticos en busca de la memoria de la abuela que se ha escapado. Esta historia ofrece otra perspectiva posible e invita al lector a conversar de manera juguetona sobre una enfermedad que afecta a incontables vidas.
Spanish Picture Book
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Fortuna
by Hernán Díaz
An immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
Una historia envolvente y un rompecabezas literario y brillante, Fortuna involucra al lector en la búsqueda de la verdad mientras se enfrenta a los engaños que a menudo viven en el corazón de las relaciones personales, la fuerza de distorsión de la realidad del capital y la facilidad con la que el poder puede manipular los hechos.
Spanish Adult Fiction
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Toma el control de tu diabetes
by Carlos A. Aguilar Salinas
With this book, patients, their family members, or their caregivers will be able to learn which foods to choose for their diet, which medicines are ideal for treatment, how to read lab results, what types of insulins there are, and what problems related to glucose levels are common, among other things.
Con este libro, los pacientes, sus familiares o sus cuidadores podrán conocer qué alimentos elegir para su dieta, qué medicamentos son ideales para el tratamiento, cómo interpretar los estudios de laboratorio, cuáles son los tipos de insulina que existen y qué problemas relacionados con el descontrol de los niveles de glucosa son comunes, entre otras cosas.
También disponible en audiolibro electrónico.
Spanish Adult Nonfiction
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