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c2012., General, Viking Call No: Fic Dra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Separated after falling in love as children in their seaside hometown in 1960s Croatia, rising artist Luka and successful actress Dora reunite by chance in Paris and struggle against formidable obstacles to be together.
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2015., Adolescent, Clockwise Press Call No: Fic Sch Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: One-2-OneSummary Note: Harrison, a fifteen-year-old boy with an uncanny ability to recite every bone in the skeletal system whenever he gets anxious, and Anna, a graduating senior, are partnered up when they join the Best Buddies club at school.
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2013., General, HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. Call No: Fic Fos Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A deeply moving story of the coming of age of a country and a boy, at the time of Barbados' independence from Britain in 1966. 14-year-old Christopher Lucas and Stephanie King have been neighbours and best friends since they were born a few months apart. They have been raised by their impoverished grandmothers after their mothers went "over 'n' away" to the United States and Canada to find work when the children were toddlers; no one has heard from the mothers since. Through a series of triumphs and catastrophes, Christopher and Stephanie determine their places in the world and take control of their lives.
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c2013., General, Breakwater Books Call No: Fic Wil Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Maxine Carter suddenly finds herself searching for a fresh start -- a way around her own gnawing fear of an untimely death and a wasted life. What she discovers is her neighbours' nine-year-old son, Kyle. As Maxine becomes the boy's constant companion and as Kyle deals with his parents' increasing absence and with life as an outsider in a new city, he slowly manages to reinvent Maxine's real and imaginative life.
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2021., Adult, Esplanade Books Call No: QWF Fic Mor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A much-celebrated auto-fictional feminist memoir, finally available in English. In this frank and unforgettable book, celebrated Québécois writer Alexie Morin becomes the subject of her own story as she places a childhood friendship under a microscope. An autobiographical novel set in a small industrial town in Québec during the 1990s, Open Your Heart recounts the story of a difficult friendship between two girls brought together by illness and operations suffered at a young age. One girl suffers from severe strabismus, while the other was born blue. The first, defiant, feels that something is wrong with her, while the second is an angelic child loved by all. One becomes a writer, and the other dies at eighteen, during an operation that should have saved her life. In this debut novel, Morin stakes out an exceptional pursuit for truth in these old memories as she grapples with death, love, bonding and solitude.
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By Jenoff, Pam2017., Adult, Mira Books Call No: Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep... When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another--or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything."--From publisher.
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c2014., General, Washington Square Press Call No: Fic Hat Edition: 1st Washington Square Press trade paperback ed March 2014. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott's world as she knew it to a devastating end. A year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter's organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose fifteen-year-old daughter, Maddie, survived only because Hannah's daughter had died. Mesmerized by this fragile connection to her own daughter and afraid to reveal who she actually is, Hannah develops a surprising friendship with Maddie's mother, Olivia. The Bells, however, have problems of their own. Once on the verge of leaving her wealthy but abusive husband, Olivia now finds herself bound to him in the wake of the transplant that saved their daughter's life. Meanwhile, Maddie, tired of the limits her poor health puts upon her and fearful of her father's increasing rage, regularly escapes into the one place where she can be anyone she wants: the Internet. But when she is finally healthy enough to return to school, the real world proves to be just as complicated as the isolated bubble she had been so eager to escape. A masterful narrative shaped by nuanced characters whose delicate bonds are on a collision course with the truth, 'Safe with Me' is a riveting triumph."--Publisher.
