Arcadia Public Library

"Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh's niece--the poet who will fill her uncle's shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option. When Nida is illegally frisked at a Democratic Senatorial candidate's political rally, she writes a scathing poem about the politician, never...

Nathalie Baudin's column for Le Petit Journal summarize new arrivals at the morgue, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. When she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered-- from the perspective of the murderer himself-- her search for answers eventually sends her into the Parisian Catacombs. Nathalie's psychic ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer's identity-- and she'll have to do it before...

"Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one that that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her...

Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.

With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

When orphan Carole meets runaway Tuesday, an uptown girl who wants nothing more than to make music, it is as if they were fated to find each other. But on colonized Mars, with a consumer base used to "perfect" A.I.-produced songs, is there any hope their organic sound and heartfelt lyrics will reach their audience?

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Zatanna lives happily in Coney Island until a mystic's quest for a powerful jewel unravels everything she thought she knew about herself, her family's legacy, and her beloved neighborhood.

This meticulous inquiry into the ways that ideological evil can infect, and ultimately destroy, the intimacies and small pleasures of daily life is beautiful, thoughtful, and almost unbearably sad. A widowed grandmother, mother, and daughter are facing starvation. Since the foreign doctors have been driven away, the mother's employment at the hospital ends. Thus the young daughter, at the risk of being discovered and killed, masquerades as a boy in...

"Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander Earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as "a freak who sees...