Hill, Will
Summary: When Jamie Carpenter's mother is kidnapped by strange creatures, he finds himself dragged into Department 19, the government's most secret agency. Fortunately for Jamie, Department 19 can provide the tools he needs to find his mother, and to kill the vampires who want him dead. But unfortunately for everyone, something much older is stirring, something even Department 19 can't stand up against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILAdams, Leisl
Summary: "In this fun graphic novel, a talented young chef is selected to participate in a baking reality show and finds herself mixed up in spicy competition, bitter rivalry, and sweet romance." --author's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ADAVeillé, Éric
Summary: Lionel poops in some inappropriate places, such as on tennis balls and the Eiffel Tower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2022
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BOARD VEIWeitz, Chris
Summary: Old friends are separated when Jefferson tries to bring a cure for the mysterious Sickness back to the Washington Square tribe in New York City while Donna faces an unimaginable new world in England, but an even greater disaster than the Sickness looms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEIVlautin, Willy
Summary: Determined to prove his worth, a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who was abandoned by his parents leaves his aging guardians to become a champion boxer before matches organized in Mexico and Las Vegas lead to his realization that he cannot change his identity or outrun his destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VLAAboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOFell, Blair
Summary: "Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELPill, Maggie
Summary: In this second story of the series, our heroes are presented with two crime threads, one hot and one cold. The cold case is half a century old, which is okay, since many residents remember those days like they were yesterday. In 1967, on a warm night in Nashville, Tennessee, someone committed two brutal murders. It’s reported that person now lives in the park, hiding under a new identity. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILKeil, Kenny
Summary: Four friends are dreaming of boy band stardom in this New Jack Swing-inspired story about fame, friendship, and why all that glitters isn't double platinum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ONI Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KEIAboulela, Leila
Summary: "This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMeacham, Leila
Summary: At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Meacham 2019Rill, Eric.
Summary: A riveting new novel and book club pick from Eric Rill, is about a race against time. The ticking time bomb is Saul Reimer's sanity. His Alzheimer's is going to be the catalyst that will either bring his family together or tear it apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RILMottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOTNevill, Adam L. G.
Summary: "When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she's just happy to find an affordable room for rent that's large enough not to deserve her previous room's nickname: 'the cell.' The eccentric--albeit slightly overly-friendly-- landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren't great,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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Summary: "Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life. Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the lives of immigrants at home and abroad as they forge new identities and reshape old ones. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOSales, Leila
Summary: When eleven-year-old Vanessa discovers an abandoned museum, she starts filling it with her own projects and art and memories, thinking maybe, if she can put them all together in just the right way, she can finally understand why she and her relationships are the way they are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SALLord, Cynthia.
Summary: Fearless Franco's famous Monster Truck Mania has come to town, and Hot Rod Hamster and his friends are searching for the very best ride at the fair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Lord 2014Hand, Cynthia.
Summary: The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane GreyIn My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history--because sometimes history needs a little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Hot Rod Hamster is invited to a Halloween party, and he enlists the help of a group of ghosts to win the spookiest costume contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LORLord, Cynthia
Summary: Because Marco Polo is tiny and likely to be lost, he is the least-borrowed of the Book Buddies, and he almost never leaves the library. But the little mouse finally meets the right match in Seth, a boy who is about to attend his first sleepover. If Seth were to bring the stuffed bunny he usually sleeps with, he'd risk being teased, but Marco Polo is the perfect size to hide away in his sleeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LORPelayo, Cynthia
Summary: "When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister's body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he's looking for payment he's owed from her. Lauren's torn between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELRylant, Cynthia
Summary: Herbert and his father prepare for his first Halloween by making a tiger costume and practicing a big roar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2017
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E RYLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday RylantCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RYLRylant, Cynthia
Summary: Mr. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, and Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke, head for the sledding slope for the wildest ride ever. Maybe winter is not so slow after all!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016