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Chlorine : a novel / by Song, Jade,author.;
A high school swimmer, intent on being scouted and awarded a scholarship, tries to deal with the pressure of it all while feeling a strange, dark suspicion that she is actually a mermaid.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Chinese American teenagers; Lesbian teenagers; Mermaids; Monsters; Teenage girls; Women swimmers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Groupies : a novel / by Priscus, Sarah,author.;
Hopping a Greyhound to Los Angeles in 1977, Faun, a naïve college dropout and aspiring photographer, reconnects with her childhood best friend who is a rising model and a muse to a rock band front man.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Groupies; Nineteen seventies; Photographers; Rock groups;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The family / by Krupitsky, Naomi,author.;
"A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Female friendship; Italian American families; Mafia;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Burma sahib : a novel / by Theroux, Paul,author.;
"An Eton graduate is conscripted as a servant of the British Empire to oversea local policemen in Burma, forcing him to navigate social, racial and class politics"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Identity (Psychology); Imperialism; Police; Racism; Social classes; Young men;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cammie takes flight / by Best, Laura.;
Cammie is in her new school, armed with an envelope with her estranged mother's address on it. She wants to find her mother and finally learn why she was abandoned.LSC
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Children with visual disabilities; Abandoned children; Schools;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Bridge of Clay / by Zusak, Markus.;
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.LSC
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Fathers; Brothers; Abandoned children; Motherless families; Family secrets; Bridges;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Our best intentions : a novel / by Jain, Vibhuti,author.;
"An immigrant family gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation in this pulsating debut, perfect for readers of Everything I Never Told You and Ask Again, Yes"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Assault and battery; East Indian Americans; Fathers and daughters; High school students; Single fathers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Brooklyn crime novel / by Lethem, Jonathan,author.;
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Criminals; Neighbors; Nineteen seventies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Only big bumbum matters tomorrow : a novel / by Kuku, Damilare,author.;
"A twenty-year-old Nigerian woman decides to make over her life after her father's death by getting plastic surgery and moving to Lagos"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Life change events; Surgery, Plastic; Women, Black; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Queen's gambit / by Tevis, Walter S.,author.;
Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become national champion and to play the world grandmasters.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Chess; Chess; Competition (Psychology); Orphans; Women chess players;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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