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1) November 9
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"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships...
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Mr. Terupt volume 2
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Several students relate their experiences helping Mr. Terupt move the old classroom to the sixth grade annex during the summer vacation.
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"A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on first through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession,...
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If You Like...Greenglass House
OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2023-2024 (Adult)
OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2023-2024 (Adult)
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"Quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door--only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too"--
5) THE EXPATS
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Discover A New Series (WPL-ADULT)
OBD First in Series - ADULT
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2022 - Adult
OBD First in Series - ADULT
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2022 - Adult
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Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage ... and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to start anew. While Kate reinvents herself as an expat, her husband works incessantly at a job she has never understood. Then another American couple arrives, and Kate becomes suspicious...
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2023 Monarch Award Nominees
AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
BPL Find Your Voice 2023
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AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
BPL Find Your Voice 2023
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"Harpreet Singh has a different color for every mood and occasion, from pink for dancing to bhangra beats to red for courage. He especially takes care with his patka--his turban--smoothing it out and making sure it always matches his outfit. But when Harpreet's mom finds a new job in a snowy city and they have to move, all he wants is to be invisible. Will he ever feel a happy sunny yellow again?"--Amazon.com.
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OBD Books for Fourth and Fifth Grade - YOUTH
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD September 11th - YOUTH
Remembering September 11
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD September 11th - YOUTH
Remembering September 11
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Relates how the lives of four children living in different parts of the country intersect and are affected by the events of September 11, 2001.
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Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley, " with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
10) The Santa suit
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"From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love-but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much...
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Captain Awesome volume 1
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When second-grader Eugene and his family move to a new neighborhood and he starts at a new school, he has a chance to bring out his superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, to find the kidnapped class hamster.
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Beloved Books... (SCPL-YA)
Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
OBD YA Mysteries - YOUTH
Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
OBD YA Mysteries - YOUTH
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"Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising...
13) Gibberish
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When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sound like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
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"Ana and Harwin's friendship has been off the charts since day one! But when Harwin learns her family is going to move far away, the duo isn't sure how their friendship can survive the move. See how their friend-o-meters calibrate in this imaginative, heartwarming story by beloved picture book creator and infographic designer Lalena Fisher. An ideal read-aloud for classrooms, libraries, and homeschooling, this book includes backmatter that explains...
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The phantoms of her old life keep haunting Marigold, but a move with her newly blended family from their California beach town to the Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper. The renovated home on Maple Street has secrets. Household items vanish, doors open...
16) The doughnut fix
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Doughnut fix volume 1
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Tristan isn't Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersville--a town with one street and no restaurants. It's like suddenly they're supposed to be this other family, one that can survive without bagels and movie theaters....
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Favorites for Kindergarteners
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
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Evelyn Del Rey and her best friend Daniela live across the street from each other, but when Evelyn is packing up boxes to move away it is time to say goodbye and make promises to keep in touch.
20) Superfudge
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Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
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