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By Pink, Randi2021., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: Historical Fic Pink Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Angel Hill, sixteen, and Isaiah Wilson, seventeen, attend the same African American school in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, but don't hang around in the same circles until a job working for a mobile library brings them together. As they collaborate for work, they bond over their knowledge of black civil rights authors and begin a tentative relationship. However, when a white mob attacks their community, the two realize they must put their civil rights theories into action.
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2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Historical Fic Cameron Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva does not know if she can trust anyone she meets, least of all Jake Katz, the young man she is attracted to.
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-- Cinders and sapphires2013. Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: One house, two worlds... Rose Cliffe has never met a young lady like her new mistress. Clever, rich, and beautiful, Ada Averley treats Rose as an equal. And Rose could use a friend. Especially now that she, at barely sixteen, has risen to the position of ladies' maid. Rose knows she should be grateful to have a place at a house like Somerton. Still, she can't help but wonder what her life might have been had she been born a lady, like Ada. For the first time in a decade, the Averleys have returned to Somerton, their majestic ancestral estate. But terrible scandal has followed Ada's beloved father all the way from India. Now Ada finds herself torn between her own happiness and her family's honor. Only she has the power to restore the Averley name—but it would mean giving up her one true love . . . someone she could never persuade her father to accept. Sumptuous and enticing, the first novel in the At Somerton series introduces two worlds, utterly different yet entangled, where...
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2021., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Fantasy Fic Corthron Edition: First Simon & Schuster BFYR paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In the Jim Crow South, Evalene Deschamps tries to look after her two little sisters, succeed in school, and help her mother, while also dealing with her burgeoning magical abilities. As she comes into her powers, a dark being has shaken loose and it will take all Evvie has to free herself from the demons of her past.
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-- Do not breathe a word[2021]., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Mystery Fic Taylor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In an effort to make friends, Hardwick Preparatory Academy junior Eva Storm accepts an invitation to join an elite secret society known as the Fives. After surviving a hazing event, Eva learns of an event that took place sixty years earlier that she is forbidden to talk about. In a parallel narrative of the 1962 event, a shy student named Connie Abbott agrees to participate in an experimental testing of the school's fallout shelter. As Connie and Eva come to realizations about their situations, both become increasingly uneasy, and only one of them will survive their ordeal.
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2018., Juvenile, Speak Call No: Fantasy Fic Ahdieh Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Flame in the Mist: Volume: Book 1Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Mariko is the only daughter of a prominent samurai, which means her only future was marriage. However, on her way to the imperial palace to meet her betrothed for the first time, Mariko's caravan is attacked by the Black Clan, who were hired to kill her. Escaping and disguising herself as a boy, Mariko infiltrates the Black Clan with the intention of getting revenge--instead, she may fall in love with the Clan's leader.
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[2019]., Juvenile, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL F LEE Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Montague Siblings Volume: 1.5Summary Note: Monty's epic grand tour may be over, but now that he and Percy are finally a couple, he realizes there is something more nerve-wracking than being chased across Europe: getting together with the person you love.
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2018., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: Historical Fic Lee Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Henry "Monty" Montague is a British gentleman taking a grand tour of Europe in the eighteenth century alongside his best friend and secret crush, Percy. His father expects him to take over the family estate when he returns--an expectation Monty dreads--so he's determined to make the most of his yearlong trip with Percy, despite the fact that Monty's younger sister is traveling with them. But one misstep leads to an adventure beyond anyone's imagination which includes a manhunt, tomb-raiding, and pirates.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL F LEE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Montague Siblings Volume: 1Summary Note: Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices have led to one last hedonistic hurrah as Monty, his best friend and crush Percy, and Monty's sister Felicity begin a Grand Tour of Europe. When a reckless decision turns their trip abroad into a harrowing manhunt, it calls into question everything Monty knows, including his relationship with the boy he adores.
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-- Goodbye, my rose garden.[2020]., Seven Seas Entertainment Call No: GN Goodbye Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In the early twentieth century, young Hanako leaves Japan for England in the hopes of becoming a novelist. Things don't work out, so she finds work instead as the personal maid to Alice Douglas, a noblewoman. Alice agrees, on the condition that Hanako kill her. Hanako tries to find out why Alice is so sad in life, and as they grow closer their relationship changes.
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-- Goodbye, my rose garden.[2020]., Seven Seas Entertainment Call No: GN Goodbye Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Lady Alice relates the story of how she came to love her governess, Eliza, and how it ended in tragedy. As she listens, Hanako finds two secrets rising to the surface of her heart--such as the fact that she has feelings for Lady Alice that are becoming more intense.
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-- Goodbye, my rose garden.[2020]., Seven Seas Entertainment Call No: GN Goodbye vol. 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Goodby My Rose Garden Volume: vol. 3Summary Note: Alice finally reveals that she is Victor Franks, and she and Hanako declare their love for each other. However, one person stands in the way of their happiness, and Alice must choose between protecting her family and a future with Hanako.
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By Lo, Malinda2021., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: Romance Fic Lo Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu is living in Chinatown, in 1950s era San Francisco when she meets and befriends her first white friend, Kathleen Miller through a mutual interest in aerospace. When the pair express their desire to see a performer at a well-known lesbian bar, they sneak out and it's there that they explore their sexuality and begin a relationship with each other in secret. However, with Lily's conservative Chinese family at her heels and McCarthyism threatening her family, Lily will need to make tough choices about her relationship with Kathy and who she wants to be.
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2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Historical Fic Cameron Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemysl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Joy Revolution Call No: ROMANCE F HOW Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Lady Ela Dalvi knows the exact moment her life was forever changed--when her best friend, Poppy, betrayed her without qualm over a boy, the son of a duke. She was sent away in disgrace, her reputation ruined. Nearly three years later, eighteen-year-old Ela is consumed with bitterness and a desire for . . . revenge. Her enemy is quickly joining the c�?rme de la c�?rme of high society while she withers away in the English countryside. With an audacious plan to get even, Ela disguises herself as a mysterious heiress and infiltrates London's elite. But when Ela reunites with the only boy she's ever loved, she begins to question whether vengeance is still her greatest desire. In this complicated game of real-life chess, Ela must choose her next move: Finally bring down the queen or capture the king's heart?"--Publisher marketing.
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-- Scarlet veil :[2023]., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FANTASY F MAH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After being sworn in as the Chasseurs' first huntswoman, Célie wants to protect Belterra alongside her fiancé and captain, Jean Luc, but her past haunts her-- like how she failed to protect her sister-- and a new evil is rising, with its mesmerizing eyes locked on her.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Inkyard Press Call No: FANTASY FIC OLS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Isda does not exist. At least not beyond the opulent walls of the opera house. Cast into a well at birth for being one of the magical few who can manipulate memories when people sing, she was saved by Cyril, the opera house's owner. Since that day, he has given her sanctuary from the murderous world outside. All he asks in return is that she use her power to keep ticket sales high--and that she stay out of sight. For if anyone discovers she survived, Isda and Cyril would pay with their lives. But Isda breaks Cyril's cardinal rule when she meets Emeric Rodin, a charming boy who throws her quiet, solitary life out of balance. His voice is unlike any she's ever heard, but the real shock comes when she finds in his memories hints of a way to finally break free of her gilded prison. Haunted by this possibility, Isda spends more and more time with Emeric, searching for answers in his music and his past. But the price of freedom is steeper than Isda could ever know. For even as she struggles with her growing feelings for Emeric, she learns that in order to take charge of her own destiny, she must become the monster the world tried to drown in the first place."--
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2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Fantasy Fic Ahdieh Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Flame in the Mist: Volume: Book 2Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Mariko spent weeks living as a boy with one goal in mind--bring justice to the one plotting to murder her. Among a group of fierce fighters, Mariko was surprised to find her place and fall in love with Okami. When Okami is captured, she'll do whatever it takes to rescue him.
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2021., Adolescent, RP Teens Call No: Romance Fic George Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Michaela Dunn lives in Cape Cod and dreams of going to the Winslow College of Fine Arts for poetry. When her stepfather refuses to pay for a poetry workshop there, Michaela enters a local contest for a poet to write the dedication plaque for a statue of Captain Benjamin Churchill, a whaler lost at sea over 100 years ago. While researching Churchill, Michaela finds the diary of Leta Townsend from 1862, and uncovers something shocking. Back in 1862, Leta was writing poetry under Churchill's name believing him to be dead when he returns from the sea unscathed. The two fall for each other, but Leta wonders if she's in love with the man or with the person she imagined in her mind.