Barrett, Casey
Summary: Disgraced competitive swimmer and unlicensed PI Duck Darley must revisit his past when he is tasked with finding the daughter of a former roommate, an investigation that is complicated by the murder of the missing girl's ex-boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMcBride, Susan
Summary: A woman vanishes from a Texas town. Did she simply run off, or is something darker at play? When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larsen's desk insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it's a case of a bored housewife running away. But as she digs deeper into Jenny's life, Jo learns that Dielman keeps a stranglehold on the family finances, down to the last nickel, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MCBTan, June CL
Summary: Rui has one goal in mind, honing her magic to avenge her mother's death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet, had he been born with magic. Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble, and the human world will be next if the King is not found. When an accident causes Rui's power to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC TANCaine, Rachel.
Summary: Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin tries to outrun accusations of corruption and murder, and seeks the help of Lewis, the most powerful Warden, who is also on the run from the World Council.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ROC 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAIBooth, Molly
Summary: New student Vi finds herself falling for Orsino, even though he wants Vi's help asking Olivia to the school dance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ARDBernstein, Ariel
Summary: "Warren is a seven-year-old boy. Dragon is a seven-hundred-year-old dragon. Not that most people believe that. Most people are sure that Dragon is a stuffed animal. People such as Warren's twin sister, Ellie, who challenges Warren to a contest at their new school: making 100 new friends. Warren isn't so good at making friends, but he doesn't like losing to Ellie, and Dragon will help him. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BERSnelling, Lauraine
Summary: "Larkspur Nielsen is ready for change, frustrated by the small-mindedness of her Ohio hometown and its lack of opportunity for her or her younger sisters. But the push to leave comes faster than she ever expected when several of her bold actions for justice earn her vindictive enemies. Overnight, they must pack up and ready to make a new life out West, hoping to escape notice and any...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Third-grader Anna has had trouble making friends since her family moved from a small town in New York to Chicago, but a group project at school leads to new opportunities, including friendships, a club, and a garden she can work in, just like in her last home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FG 1Roberts, Nora.
Summary: Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee - and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn’t intimidated by the house - nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee - and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn’t intimidated by the house - nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2004
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Summary: Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband -- a rating out of ten awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower, and monitored by a device in her skull. A device that reports forbidden thoughts. Liana is currently a four, the lowest possible acceptable score. When her worst nightmare comes to pass and she drops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightlight Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA SF ForrestPool, Katy Rose
Summary: Since fleeing the gilded halls of Evergarden for the muck-filled canals of the Marshes, Marlow Briggs has made a name for herself as the best godsdamn cursebreaker in Caraza City. But no matter how many cases she solves, she is still haunted by the mystery of her mother's disappearance. When Adrius Falcrest, Marlow's old friend and scion of one of Caraza's most affluent spell-making families,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POOSmith, Karen Rose
Summary: Daisy, a widowed mom of two teenagers, is used to feeling protective--so when Iris started dating the wealthy and not-quite-divorced Harvey Fitz, she worried . . . especially after his bitter ex stormed in and caused a scene at the party Daisy's Tea Garden was catering. Then there was the gossip she overheard about Harvey's grown children being cut out of his will. Daisy didn't want her aunt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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Summary: "Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks -- in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life -- casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BROJae-Jones, S.
Summary: Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before. Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about--appease her stepmother's cruel whims, looking after her blind younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts under control-without having to deal with rumors of monsters re-emerging in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAELasky, Kathryn
Summary: Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LASLarson, Sara B.
Summary: Princess Evelayn, eighteen, of Éadrolan must rely on her newly acquired magical powers as war between the Light Kingdom and the Dark Kingdom rages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fanatsy Larson 2017Contents: The courage to persevere. Isabel Allende ; Kelly Stone ; Jako ; Cheri Honkala ; Cora Lee Johnson ; Mary Pipher ; Rhea Seddon ; Faith Popcorn ; Michele Lee -- The courage to listen to your heart. Judith Orloff ; Barbara Brennan ; Susan Winston ; Janelle Goetcheus ; Lynne Twist ; Rebecca Black ; Barbara Trent ; Elizabeth Pirruccello Newhall -- The courage to challenge. Anita Roddick ; Kory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help MartinRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Nora Roberts's In the Garden Trilogy "America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker) takes us to a historic Southern mansion that houses a gardening business—and a ghostly presence—in this winning trilogy of romance and suspense. Blue Dahlia Black Rose Red Lily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Hunter, Erin.
Summary: "For many moons, a tribe of cats has lived peacefully near the top of a mountain. But prey is scarce and seasons are harsh--and their leader fears they will not survive. When a mysterious vision reveals a land filled with food and water, a group of brave young cats sets off in search of a better home. But great dangers await them. In this unfamiliar world, faced with loners and fierce rogues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC HUNSummary: Distinguished evolutionary biologists among the auditors of the foregoing lectures take on not only Luther Sutherland
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: All other life forms except humans exist to propagate themselves and pass on their genes; humans alone work to other ends. In this lecture, Richard Dawkins distinguishes between the result of eons of natural selection which has resulted in, say, a bird's tail, whose purpose is to enable the bird to fly-purpose with a survival value-and deliberate design, like an airplane's tail. Dawkins shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Since Darwin's day, explanations for the causation of evolution have come and gone, Lamarckism, mutationism, and the existence of a built-in mechanism driving to perfection all dismissed for lack of evidence and the proofs of molecular biology. Ernst Mayr examines and evaluates the modifications and adaptations to Darwin's theory of natural selection, to determine whether the resulting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010