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Publisher / Publication Date: Spring Books 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlackwood, Lauren
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Jerusalem, a fearless Saint with demigod powers, joins the Union Army seeking revenge against the vampire who enslaved her family, but in order to find success, she finds herself reluctantly teaming up with Alexei, a handsome Union vampire she can't help but fall for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BLABlackwood, Sage
Summary: Repeatedly landing in trouble at her finishing school because of her preference for practicing magic instead of manners, Chantel enlists her friends to protect the kingdom when her teacher goes missing along with the city's protective magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BLABlackwood, Sage.
Summary: "Jinx travels throughout the Urwald to unite its people and creatures against encroaching threats"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLABlackwood, Scott.
Summary: "One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of the survivors--family, witnesses, and suspects--who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, human connection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlackwood, Grant.
Summary: Even though he's on forced leave from the clandestine intelligence group known as The Campus, Jack Ryan, Jr., still finds himself caught in the crosshairs after an attempt on his life is thwarted when he turns the tables on his would-be dispatcher. Convinced that the attack is linked to his recent covert actions with the convalescing Iranian national Ysabel Kashini, Jack sets out to find out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLABlackwood, Sage.
Summary: A young boy named Jinx encounters magic and danger as he grows up in the deep, dark forest known as the Urwald and discovers that the world beyond is more complex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BLABlackwood, Grant.
Summary: "On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared--gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlackwood, Sage.
Summary: "A young wizard's apprentice, Jinx, learns that his forest home, the Urwald, is under threat, and to save it he must travel to a new land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BLABlackwood, Grant
Summary: "On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared--gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLABlackwood, Grant.
Summary: Even though he's on forced leave from the clandestine intelligence group known as The Campus, Jack Ryan, Jr., still finds himself caught in the crosshairs after an attempt on his life is thwarted when he turns the tables on his would-be dispatcher. Convinced that the attack is linked to his recent covert actions with the convalescing Iranian national Ysabel Kashini, Jack sets out to find out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLABlackwood, Grant.
Summary: Jack Ryan investigates an attempt on his life and stumbles onto the trail of a philanthropist and human rights advocate who Jack believes is about to make a drastic move in order to secure his place among the global powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Blackwood 2016Blackwood, Lauren
Summary: Kidnapped at six and sent to work at the Exotic Lands Touring Company as a Wildblood tour guide, eighteen-year-old Victoria takes on a dangerous expedition through the monster-filled Jamaican jungle to secure a better future and find where she truly belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAAlderson, Kaia
Summary: The first Black women allowed to serve in the army, Grace Steele and Eliza Jones, helping form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, navigate their way through the segregated ranks, finally making it overseas where they do their parts for the country they love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALDBlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLALockwood, Katherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Disabilities LockwoodBlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquiresa new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLALockwood, Patricia
Summary: "From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOCBlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Harry Fogg undertakes a race against time to win a wager with a member of his famous father's club, he puts to good use the recklessness and fascination with all things mechanical that have caused him trouble in Victorian England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC BLABlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000
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Summary: "Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDLarkwood, A. K.
Summary: "What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. On the day of her foretold death, however, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Csorwe leaves her home, her destiny, and her god to become the wizard's loyal sword-hand -- stealing, spying, and killing to help him reclaim his seat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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Summary: "A smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: Csorwe and Shuthmili make their living exploring relic worlds of the ancient serpent empire of Echentyr. They think they're prepared for anything but when one of their expeditions releases an Echentyri soldier who has slept undisturbed since the fall of her homeland, they are thrown back into a conflict that has lain dormant for thousands of years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022