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By Fagan, Caryc2013., General, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Fag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "With wit, tenderness, humour, and, startling beauty, Cary Fagan brings a gifted young man's rise to a peculiar kind of stardom, wonderfully alive. Growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood in the 1930s, young Benjamin Kleeman falls in love, first with Corrine Foster and then with magic. Hiding his new passions from his parents - the long-suffering Bella, an Italian immigrant, and Jacob, a talented but failed inventor of elaborate mechanical devices - Benjamin begins apprenticeships in magic and life itself, learning along the way that everything is more complicated than it seems."--Publisher.
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c2015., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: QWF Fic Smi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: BOO is the highly anticipated debut novel from one of the most incomparable voices in Canadian literature: BANG CRUNCH author Neil Smith. Oliver Dalrymple, nicknamed "Boo" - because of his pale complexion and staticky hair, is an outcast at his Illinois middle school. But after a tragic accident, Boo wakes up to find himself in a very strange sort of heaven: a town populated only by 13-year-old Americans. While he desperately wants to apply the scientific method to find out how this heaven works, he's confronted by the greatest mystery of all - his peers.
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2023., Adult, Kino Lorber Call No: NEW DVD Fic Juniper Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ruth is a worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and a newly fractured leg. Sam is her unruly grandson, recently kicked out of boarding school and grieving the death of his mother. When the two are brought together under the same roof, they form an unexpected bond.
![Juniper [DVD] (2023) Directed by Matthew J. Saville](/Library/images/~imageCT103320.JPG "Juniper [DVD] (2023) Directed by Matthew J. Saville")
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2001., Adult, Vintage Canada Call No: IND Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tragedy strikes the Hill family when their handsome 17-year-old son Jimmy vanishes mysteriously at sea. Not content to wait quietly at home during the search-and-rescue effort, his sister Lisamarie sets off alone to find him. Her search takes her to Monkey Beach (a shore famous for sasquatch sightings), and on a voyage that blends teen culture, Haisla lore, nature spirits and human tenderness into a multilayered story of loss and redemption. Nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Giller Prize.
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2013., Simon & Schuster Audio Call No: CD Fic Wal Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman "who flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble," takes off to "find herself." She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that's been in the family for generations.
![The silver star [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT76599.JPG "The silver star [CD]")
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2007., Picador Call No: Fic Cam Edition: 1st Picador ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old James Sveck, sophistocated yet vulnerable, appreciates the world around him. He just doesn't know how to live in it.
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c2011., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Tor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. Written in magical language with unforgettable images, this is a stunning exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up, how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds, and how we are ultimately propelled at escape velocity toward our futures"--Publisher.
