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Publisher
Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
DIVERGENT (2 hrs. 19 min.): Divergent is a thrilling action-adventure set in a future world where society has been divided into five distinct factions. Not fitting into any group, Tris (Shailene Woodley), a Divergent, is targeted by a faction leader determined to eliminate all Divergents.
INSURGENT (1 hr. 59 min.): Tris searches for answers and allies in this action-packed second adventure. On the run and targeted by ruthless faction leader Jeanine...
422) On the Jellicoe Road
Author
Series
Publisher
Distrubuted by Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Edition
Unabridged.
Description
Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs, the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything,...
423) Lumberjackula
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition
Description
Jack is in a pickle. His lumberjack mom wants him to go to Mighty Log Lumberjack Prep to learn how to chop wood and wear flannel. His vampire dad wants him to go to Sorrow's Gloom Vampire School to learn how to turn into a bat and drink blood-orange juice. And Jack has a secret: what he really wants to do is dance. When he finds out about Tip Tap Twinkle Toes Dance Academy from new friend Plenty, Jack feels he's finally found the place where he can...
424) The Odds
Author
Series
Odds volume 1
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
"Kip is a quiet kid in a loud city. She's easy to miss and that's the way she likes it. Then, one day, Kip's quiet life is suddenly interrupted. Ten of her favorite characters have stepped out of their worlds and into hers. But what happens when a dragon-hunting rabbit leaves his comic strip? When an old man leaves his picture book? When a ninja leaves her TV show, a race-car driver leaves their video game, and a dinosaur turns up from Kip's nightmares?"--...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A mobster has one night to decide between his loyalty to his estranged son or to a mobster who is his lifelong friend; after a man wakes up from a coma and discovers that his identity now belongs to another man, he sets out on a mission to restore his former life.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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Description
A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Description
"Natalie Diaz’s debut collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of the mythological intensity of tribal life and a deeply rooted cultural history. In these distinctively voiced poems, a sister struggles with a brother’s addiction to meth, while everyone, from Antigone and Houdini to Huitzilopochtli and Jesus, is invited to hash it out. By turns darkly...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
Description
Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Together, their stories tell of the plight of the urban Native American, grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
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