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• A Magical Journey Summer Adventure at AC Library

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  Alameda County Library invites people of all ages and abilities to come along for our 2023 Summer Adventure: A Magical Journey! Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries. Pick up an Adventure Guide at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bone Spindle

  Vedder, Leslie,

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  (Sleeping Beauty) When she pricks her finger on a bone spindle, treasure hunter Fi is stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose, a prince under a sleeping curse, and must team up with a tough-as-dirt girl warrior to free the prince--and herself.

• Other Ever Afters

  New Queer Fairy Tales

  Gillman, Melanie,

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  (Classic fairy tales) In this new feminist, queer fairy tale collection, the princesses, mermaids, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories take center stage to fulfill their own dreams…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Travelers Along the Way

  a Robin Hood Remix

  Safi, Aminah Mae,

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  (Robin Hood) Jerusalem, 1192. Rahma al-Hud and her older sister Zeena travel to Jerusalem for a final mission, and on their way they assemble a ragtag band of misfits and get swept up in Holy Land politics.

• Small Favors

  Craig, Erin A.,

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  (Rumpelstiltskin) When strange events plague the town of Amity Falls, Ellerie must race against time to save everyone she loves from creatures who offer to fulfill the residents' deepest desires for just a small favor.

• Rosewood

  a Midsummer Meet Cute

  DasGupta, Sayantani,

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  (Sense and Sensibility/A Midsummer Night's Dream) Two Bengali American teens fall for each other while being scouted as extras for a television show in this rollicking Sense and Sensibility and A Midsummer Night's Dream mash-up.

• My Dear Henry

  a Jekyll & Hyde Remix

  Bayron, Kalynn,

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  (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde) A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance--and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger--in misty Victorian London.

• A Thousand Ships

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie,

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  (Greek Myths) The women of the Trojan War take center stage in this excellent take on the Greek classics. Hopping through nearly a dozen perspectives, Haynes provides an enthralling reimagining of the lives of women from both Troy and Greek culture.

• Skin of the Sea

  Bowen, Natasha,

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  (The Little Mermaid) Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.

• Spin Me Right Round

  Valdes Greenwood, David,

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  (Back to the Future) Luis just wants to go to prom with his boyfriend, but when a hit on the head knocks him back to 1985, he meets his parents' closeted classmate.

• Bad Girls Never Say Die

  Mathieu, Jennifer,

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  (The Outsiders) Set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.

• Lost in the Never Woods

  Thomas, Aiden,

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  (Peter Pan) When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them.

• Anna K

  a Love Story

  Lee, Jenny, 1971-

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  (Anna Karenina) Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything. This is Anna Karenina meets Gossip Girl.

• Red Hood

  Arnold, Elana K.,

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  (Red Riding Hood) A dark, engrossing, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power-and one girl's journey to regain it. You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly naked.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Curse So Dark and Lonely

  Kemmerer, Brigid,

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  (Beauty and the Beast) Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.

• The Guinevere Deception

  White, Kiersten,

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  (Arthurian Legend) Deadly jousts, duplicitous knights, and forbidden romances are nothing compared to the greatest threat of all: the girl with the long black hair, riding on horseback through the dark woods toward Arthur. Because when your whole…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And the Ocean Was Our Sky

  Ness, Patrick, 1971-

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  (Moby Dick) With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt. Led by the formidable, dangerous Captain Alexandra, they fight in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on…Read moreRead more of this annotation