NDiaye, Marie.
Summary: Follows the stories of three women who discover the power of saying no, including a lawyer who must save a victim of her tyrannical father, a Dakar teacher whose happiness is thwarted by a depressed boyfriend, and a penniless widow desperate to escape homelessness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NDISummary: With an avant-garde sensibility and a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambťy paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of postindependence Senegal in the early 1970s in his feature debut.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOULu, Marie
Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LUGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEOOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie are about to meet the fiercest warriors of all -- the soldiers of the ancient Roman legion! When the magic tree house whisks them back to a Roman army camp, they learn their mission: Be like warriors. That is easier said than done -- Roman soldiers are the best fighters in the world! When Jack and Annie find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, they're in big...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOODickerson, Melanie
Summary: In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Elyce escapes unscrupulous King Conrad by taking a sleeping potion, and after Sir Gerard wakes her with a kiss they begin their journey to Prague in the dead of winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICRiordan, Rick.
Summary: "Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophecy of Seven must work together to seal the Doors of Death--and help Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld in the process"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Riordan 2013Riordan, Rick.
Summary: The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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Summary: Gisela's childhood was filled with laughter and visits from nobles such as the duke and his young son. But since her father's death, each day has been filled with nothing but servitude to her stepmother. So when Gisela learns the duke's son, Valten -- the boy she has daydreamed about for years -- is throwing a ball in hopes of finding a wife, she vows to find a way to attend, even if it's only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICTanumihardja, Patricia
Summary: "A young boy aspires to make a bowl of ramen as delicious as his dad's, and runs into some surprises--both delightful and disastrous--on his first attempt"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONMoyes, Jojo
Summary: Louisa Clark heads for New York and finds herself torn between her old life and her new one. As she tries to keep the two sides of her world together, Lou finds herself carrying secrets--not all her own--that cause a catastrophic change in her circumstances.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. On March 3, 1913, a glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHIGreeley, Andrew M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GREShipman, Viola
Summary: "For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger she's believed since childhood would one day carry on her legacy -- the Very Cherry General Store. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SHIMoreno, Dano
Summary: "In a celebration of open adoption, both a baby's birth mother and his adoptive parents share the same universal wishes for the child"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORShortall, Eithne
Summary: "The Husband's Secret meets Big Little Lies in this story of three women looking for a fresh start, and the love affairs, rivalries, and scandals found on the other side of the white picket fence."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOColgan, Jenny
Summary: "Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARHannah, Kristin
Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. This is the story of a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon's most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman - and in a kingdom where the status...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SOOMarshall, Catherine
Summary: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MarshallSingh, Komal
Summary: Ara loves big numbers - BIG numbers. She wants to program her droid DeeDee <Beep!> to count all the stars, but she's not sure how. In this upbeat adventure, Ara visits Innovation Plex to enlist the help of four tech trailblazers - inspiring real-life engineers of Google. With her new friends, Ara discovers an algorithm for success that can solve BIG problems and be lots of fun: courage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2018