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"A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle…
school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind. The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. But America is stifling her--her willfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly. In enthralling, sensory prose, The Coin explores nature and civilization, beauty and justice, class and belonging--all while resisting easy moralizing. Provocative, wry, and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice." -- OCLC
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General fiction, Short stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Alphabet, number and picture books
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It's bedtime in Missouri! Say goodnight and wish sweet dreams to Missouri's most iconic sights and landmarks, including the Gateway…
Arch, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Arrowhead Stadium, and many more. For preschool to grade 2
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Multi-cultural fiction
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"Angel McAllister's worst nightmare has come true. Her best friend, Sharice Bell, has discovered her most intimate secret. And a…
new enemy, LaDonna Burns, is on the warpath. Gossip and rumors are spreading through school like wildfire, and Angel's classmates are turning on her. Can she bury the secret and put out the flames? Or will Angel face the truth--and it's life-changing consequences?" -- WorldCat
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General fiction, Sports fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Although Alex is nervous about his role in the approaching baseball playoffs and championship game, he soon figures out how…
to fix his mistakes and become a better player. For grades 3-6
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Romance, Multi-cultural fiction, Christian fiction, Historical fiction, Historical romance
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"Coming to a new country is difficult for everyone, but for German immigrant Mabel Krause, coming to America is about…
to get a whole lot harder... With her brother facing trial for a murder he didn't commit, Mabel needs a lawyer who can help prove her brother's innocence. The only trouble is, she can't afford one. Good things there's a law student in town who's making a name for himself by helping the unfortunate. Now if she can just convince him to help her brother... Hiram Cummings needs money to return to law school, and the fastest way to earn it is by working as a legal clerk for the powerful and rich Rhett Vandergriff. When a desperate immigrant comes to him for help, he knows he should refuse her. He can't afford to take on charity cases when he needs money himself. Yet Hiram was raised knowing the importance of doing right and living his faith. His commitment to justice and integrity means he can't quite bring himself to turn away from Mabel, and Hiram soon finds himself on a mission to prove a man's innocence. But all is not as it appears, and Hiram soon learns that not only is his job at risk, but he's also in danger of losing his heart--if he and Mabel don't lose their lives first." -- OCLC
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Mysteries and crime stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction
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Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood after a traffic stop of two…
Black motorists. As the Watts riots explode, crime photographer Harry Ingram snaps photos at the scene, including images of the police as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on civilians. When he captures the image of an unarmed activist being shot down by the cops, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera missing. Proof of the unjust killing seems lost until Ingram's girlfriend, Anita Claire, retrieves the hidden film in a daring rescue. The photo makes front-page news. A recuperating Ingram is approached by Betty Payton, a comrade of Anita's mother, who wants Ingram's help tracking down her business associate Moses "Mose" Tolbert, last seen during the riots. Ingram follows the investigation down a rabbit hole of burglary rings, bank robberies, looted cash, and clandestine agendas all the while grappling with his newfound fame, which puts him in the sightlines of LAPD's secretive intelligence division. Ash Dark as Night is a nail-biting ride-along through midcentury Los Angeles with a crime fiction legend in the driver's seat. Adult. Strong language
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"Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When…
his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their racist lineages, and forcing them to pay reparations to a community fund. For 3 of the group members, the results mean justice; for Nate -- pure revenge. Not all targets go quietly into the night, though, and Nate and his friends' world spirals out of control when they confront the wrong man. Now the leader of a white supremacist group is hot on their tail as is a jaded lawman with some disturbingly racist views of his own. As the 4 vigilantes fight to thwart their ruthless pursuers, they're forced to accept an age-old truth: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."" -- Provided by publisher
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Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner…
of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick&“Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life.&” —The New YorkerA staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City&’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers&’ Cinema: a theater where gay men cruised for love.While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found intimacy in the screening rooms. In the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men, guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist. But when Old Second&’s passion for his male lover is revealed, a series of haunting events unfold, propelling these characters toward an uncertain future in America.Spanning three timelines—post-socialist China, 1980s Chinatown, and contemporary New York—Cinema Love is an &“exceptional" and "moving&” (Alice Hoffman) epic about men and women who find themselves in forbidden relationships; the weight of secrets; and the way memory forever haunts the present.
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Fantasy, Multi-cultural fiction
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En esta novela gráfica que reinventa un cuento indígena mexicano, los gemelos semidioses usan la magia de la canción para…
rescatar a su padre y a su tío de la peligrosa tierra de los muertos. Una aventura suprema de grado medio! In this graphic novel retelling of an Indigenous Mexican tale, demigod twins must use their magic of song to rescue their father and uncle from the perilous Land of the Dead. A supreme middle-grade adventure!En la época en que los semidioses mayas vivían entre nosotros, dos hermanos despreocupados, Uno Junajpú y Siete Junajpú, son atraídos a Xibalbá, la Tierra de los Muertos. Incapaces de regresar al mundo rodeado de mar, los hijos primogénitos de Uno Junajpú deben ser criados por su abuela. En Xibalbá, Uno Junajpú conoce a la rebelde Princesa Sangre, y su amor conduce a otro par de hijos gemelos, destinados a salvar a su padre y a su tío y restaurar el equilibrio del cosmos. ¡Pero no será fácil! Los gemelos necesitan algo de magia engañosa para sobrevivir la crueldad de sus medio hermanos. Adaptada de los recuentos y traducciones del autor David Bowles de textos precolombino esenciales como el Popol Vuh, la serie Leyendas de la serpiente emplumada da vida a las historias indígenas mesoamericanas para los lectores jóvenes. In the age of Maya demigods, two carefree brothers are called to Xibalba, Land of the Dead. When they fail to return to the sea-ringed world above, One Hunahpu's firstborn sons are raised by their grandmother. Below, in Xibalba, One Hunahpu meets the rebellious Lady Blood, and their love leads to twin sons, destined to restore balance to the cosmos--though they might need some trickster magic to survive the cruelty of their older half-brothers! Adapted from author David Bowles's retellings and translations of essential pre-Columbian texts like the Popol Vuh, the Tales of the Feathered Serpent series brings Indigenous Mesoamerican stories alive for young readers!
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General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, Family stories, Contemporary romance, Romance
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"A sweet story of finding love where you least expected to. A romp through New York City with fresh immigrant…
eyes. Kiran and Nash's journey to learning to see themselves and others across boundaries and preconceived notions will warm your heart."—Sonali Dev, author of Recipe for PersuasionShe's determined to be the perfect daughter, until she meets the perfect guy…Kiran Mathur knows firsthand how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself—by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne.Nash is a dedicated doctor and committed to being alone. His family life has taught him the inevitability of abandonment, and he isn't ready to question his beliefs. But in spending time with Kiran, he starts to experience emotion he's never felt before.For both, love feels like a risk. But when the future only starts to make sense with each other, it might be time to follow their hearts...Praise for Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words:"LOVE, CHAI, AND OTHER FOUR LETTER WORDS is a delight... As warm and comforting as perfect masala chai."—Farah Heron, author of Accidentally Engaged"Captivating."—Library Journal, STARRED Review"Not-to-be-missed."—Booklist, STARRED Review
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Multi-cultural fiction, Family stories, Contemporary romance, Romance, General fiction, Westerns
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She could be his chance for a new beginning…A temporary assignment could have permanent side effectsEllie Montenegro and her secondhand…
plane just delivered an angel of mercy to her remote Texas town. Forever’s warmhearted inhabitants are counting on New York cardiac surgeon Neil Eastwood to save their beloved matriarch. But it’s the heart of the sexy, outspoken pilot Neil hopes to steal as he joins Ellie on a secret family search. Is the runway long enough for a relationship to take off?USA TODAY Bestselling Author
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Multi-cultural fiction, Family stories, Contemporary romance, Romance, General fiction, Westerns
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Learning to love againIs his hardest assignmentEver since Clint Washburn’s wife abandoned him, the stoic rancher has built up defenses…
to keep everyone in Forever, Texas, out—including his young son. Now the boy’s teacher, Wynona Chee, is questioning his parenting! And Clint is experiencing feelings he thought long dead. Still, Wynona has her homework cut out for her if she’s going to teach this cowboy to love again.
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Can a cowboy convince her to stay? A clause in her father’s will requires Ena O’Rourke to work the family…
ranch—site of many unhappy memories—for six months before she can sell it. She’s livid at her father, but Mitch Randall, foreman of the Double E, is there for her. As Ena spends time on the ranch—and with Mitch—new memories are laid over the old…and perhaps new opportunities to make a life.
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Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Family stories, Fantasy, LGBTQ+ fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICKIn this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic—of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories…
they contain back to life—holds the power to transform a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-proclaimed recluse, she's always struggled to make friends and, as a college freshman, finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. They are now in their nineties, and Monica worries about them constantly—especially her grandmother, Yun, who survived two wars in China before coming to the States, and whose memory has begun to fade.Though Yun rarely speaks of her past, Monica is determined to find the long-lost cousin she was separated from years ago. One day, the very program Monica is helping to build connects her to a young woman, whose gift of a single pencil holds a surprising clue. Monica’s discovery of a hidden family history is exquisitely braided with Yun’s own memories as she writes of her years in Shanghai, working at the Phoenix Pencil Company. As WWII rages outside their door, Yun and her cousin, Meng, learn of a special power the women in their family possess: the ability to Reforge a pencil’s words. But when the government uncovers their secret, they are forced into a life of espionage, betraying other people’s stories to survive.Combining the cross-generational family saga and epistolary form of A Tale for the Time Being with the uplifting, emotional magic of The Midnight Library, Allison King’s stunning debut novel asks: who owns and inherits our stories? The answers and secrets that surface on the page may have the unerasable power to reconnect a family and restore a legacy.
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FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARDNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND…
KIRKUS REVIEWSA novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant&’s complex relationships with his mother and his motherlandIn this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy&’s life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami.In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind.He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he&’s become since he left, and with who his mother is: finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love.Hombrecito—&“little man&”—is a moving portrait of a young person between cultures, between different ideas of himself. From an extraordinary new talent, this is a story told with startling beauty and intensity, a story for anyone searching for home, searching for a way to love.
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Multi-cultural fiction, Romance, Historical fiction, Family stories, Historical romance, Christian fiction, Gentle romance, General fiction
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"1904: Ellen Copley is still a child when she leaves behind the sooty rail yards of Glasgow, and crosses the…
Atlantic Ocean with a heart full of dreams. Yet within weeks of their arrival in America, her father has disappeared--leaving Ellen with resentful relatives, feeling alone and scared for her future. But then her kind Aunt Rose invites Ellen to stay with her large family, in their rambling house on beautiful Amherst Island, which nestles like a jewel in the blue waters of Lake Ontario. There Ellen finally begins to find the love and acceptance she has long been craving--both from Aunt Rose's boisterous family, and from the boys next door, Jed and Lucas Lyman. It's Jed she's drawn to... the one with the twinkling eyes, who teases her, and laughs with her, and soon steals her heart... But does Jed love her back? Because even though Amherst Island feels like home Ellen knows she can't stay there with a broken heart..." -- Goodreads
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General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, Animal storiesFamily and relationships, General non-fiction
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A family remembers their beloved pet dog through the traditions of Día de Muertos in this "gorgeous, deeply touching exploration…
of grief and remembrance" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from Pura Belpré Honor winning team Xelena González and Adriana M. Garcia. For grades K-3
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy…
that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals-personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others-that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots." -- Provided by publisher
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Historical fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction
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"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a…
longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which in turn draw on a heritage of African folklore, this incantatory dialogue between a mother and daughter paired with startlingly beautiful illustrations celebrates love, resilience, and the spiritual power of the"old-time ways"--tradition and shared cultural memory--to sustain and uplift."-- Provided by publisher
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"Celia del Pino, the matriarch of a far-flung Cuban family, has watched her descendants spread out across the globe, struggling…
to make sense of their transnational identities and strained relationships with one another. In Berlin, the charismatic yet troubled Ivanito performs on stage as his drag queen persona, while being haunted by the ghost of his mother. Pilar Puente, adrift in Los Angeles, is a struggling sculptor and the single mother of a young son. In Moscow, Ivanito's cousin Irina has become the wealthy owner of a lingerie company, but she remains deeply lonely in the wake of her parents' deaths and her estrangement from her Cuban heritage. Meanwhile, in Havana, Celia prepares to reunite with her lost lover, Gustavo, and wonders whether age and the decades spent apart have altered their bond. Cut off from their Cuban roots, yet still feeling the island's ineluctable pull, Ivanito and his extended family try to reimagine where--and with whom--they belong. Over the course of a momentous year, each will grapple with their histories as they are pulled to Berlin for a final, explosive reunion." -- Provided by publisher