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To place a rabbit / by Anand, Madhur,1971-author.;
"This delightfully clever, artfully layered novel begins when a scientist who has written a popular book of non-fiction attends a literary festival, where she strikes up a friendship with a charismatic novelist. The novelist reveals that her new work is an experiment: a novella she wrote in English only to have it translated and published solely in French -- a language the novelist cannot read. Moreover, she has lost her original English manuscript of this work. Hearing this, the scientist, who is fluent in French, impulsively offers to retranslate the novella back into English for the novelist. As she embarks on this task, the scientist finds herself haunted by vivid memories and distracting questions -- particularly about a passionate affair from her own life with a French lover. These insert themselves into her translation process, troubling it, then disrupting it entirely. She desperately tries to complete her task before losing control of both the work and her well-organized existence -- but soon the novelist and the French lover reappear in the present, further complicating both life and art."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Identity (Psychology); Man-woman relationships; Memory; Scientists;
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Sam : a novel / by Goodman, Allegra,author.;
"There is a girl, and her name is Sam. She adores her father, though he isn't around much. Her mother, Courtney, struggles to make ends meet, and never fails to remind her daughter that her life should be different. Sam doesn't fit in at school, where theother girls have the right shade of blue jeans and don't question the rules. Sam doesn't care about jeans or rules. She just loves to climb--trees, fences, walls, the side of a building. When she's climbing, she discovers a place she belongs: she can turn off her brain, pain has a purpose, and it's okay if you want to win. As Sam grows into her teens, she grapples with self-doubt and insecurity for the first time. She yearns for her climbing coach to notice her, but his attention crosses boundaries she doesn't know how to resist. She wishes her father would leave for good, instead of always coming and going, but once he's gone, she realizes how much she's lost. She rages against her mother's constant pressure to plan for a more secure future, but also sees how hard she works and how much she sacrifices. Wrestling with who she wants to be in the face of what she's expected to do, Sam comes to understand that she alone can make her dreams come true"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Confidence; Dysfunctional families; Girls; Identity (Psychology); Young women;
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A big surprise for Little Card / by Harper, Charise Mericle.; Raff, Anna.;
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Subjects: Library cards; Birthday cards; Identity (Psychology); Libraries;
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Escaping peril / by Sutherland, Tui,1978-;
Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission--find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her, will be a help or a hindrance.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Dragons; Quests (Expeditions); Friendship; Identity (Psychology);
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Patchwork / by de la Peña, Matt.; Luyken, Corinna.;
An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique.LSC
Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology); Individuality; Self-confidence;
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The summer of bitter and sweet / by Ferguson, Jen,1985-;
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him. While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't ignore her father forever"-- Publisher.LSC
Subjects: Best friends; Fathers and daughters; Identity (Psychology); Ex-convicts;
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Honeysmoke / by Fields, Monique.; Moises, Yesenia.;
A young biracial girl searches for the perfect color word to describe herself.LSC
Subjects: Racially mixed children; Identity (Psychology); Human skin color;
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Still a gorilla! / by Norman, Kim.; Geran, Chad.;
Willy the Gorilla imitates the other animals at the zoo, but despite pretending he remains always a gorilla.LSC
Subjects: Gorilla; Zoo animals; Identity (Psychology); Self-acceptance;
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The 66th rebirth of Frankie Caridi / by Marciano, Johnny.; Mackenzie, Ashley.;
Frankie, accustomed to living in her younger brother's shadow, attends a new boarding school where half the students have horns like her brother, but she when begins to experience unsettling dreams she goes on to discover unsettling truths about the school.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Siblings; Boarding schools; Identity (Psychology); Secrecy;
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Good girl : a novel / by Aber, Aria,author.;
"In Berlin's artistic underground, where drugs and techno fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan refugees, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin's legendary night life, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. As Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe's controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany-and Nila's family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila's stops to ask herself the most important question: who does she want to be?"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Identity (Psychology); Refugees; Young women;
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