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Alcatraz Island (Calif.) History 20th century Fiction Autism Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / New Experience Merchants Family relationships Fiction Science fiction United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California Fiction United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California Juvenile fiction Women journalists FictionSummary: New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Newspaper reporter Hope Jensen goes undercover to find out who has been anonymously giving glass jars filled with money to people in need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ChStrauss, Darin.
Summary: In Long Island Josh Goldin loves his wife Dori and their eight month old son Zack. However, the TV salesman is very worried about Zack who twice has been rushed to the emergency room with strange life-threatening symptoms. African-American ICU pediatric chief Dr. Darlene Stokes reports the Goldin case to the Child Protective Services based on her theory that Zack's mom suffers from Munchausen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STRZeniter, Alice
Summary: "A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENAlbin, Gennifer.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys is called upon to harness her power in a battle for control of Earth, but as she uncovers the truth about her own history she learns that everyone holds secrets, some of which may drive her from her love, Jost, into his brother Erik's arms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALBCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: "Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHOAlbin, Gennifer.
Summary: Adelice returns to Arras, where the Guild's control is slipping and Cormac Patton needs her help to reestablish order, but she soon discovers that she is not alone and must choose between an unimaginable alliance and a war that could destroy everyone sheloves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALBCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC CHOStross, Charles.
Summary: When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the 27th century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CHOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHORenier, Aaron.
Summary: Walker Bean is happiest when he gets to spend time tinkering on his inventions in his grandfather's workshop, but when his grandfather acquires a curse, Walker must embark on dangerous quest to return a pearl skull to the witches who made it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RENSTROSS, CHARLES
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Publisher / Publication Date: TORBH 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles
Summary: Welcome to the Stasis, a clandestine, near-omnipotent organization. By mastering the mysteries of the Timegate, the Stasis has repeatedly steered mankind away from the brink of utter extinction. Through countless millennia, its members have intervened at critical junctions, reseeding the galaxy with viable potential survivors. In the process, they have reconfigured the basic structure of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles.
Summary: When she stumbles on a money-laundering scheme, reporter Miriam Beckstein is shocked when she is threatened with death, a situation that turns bizarre when she is transported to a parallel Earth where her family rules a powerful kingdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles.
Summary: Rachel Mansour, an agent for Old Earth, must join forces with a disaffected teenager calling herself Wednesday Shadowmist as she races to find out who was responsible for the destruction of the planet Moscow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles.
Summary: Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, and discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles.
Summary: The army of the Clan finds themselves locked in a fortress under siege that coexists in two parallel universes, a situation that is further complicated by Miriam's prospects for succeeding the fallen Duke Angbard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStross, Charles.
Summary: Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinctleaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStraub, Peter
Summary: Willy Patrick finds her life intersecting with that of a stranger, Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie event involving the death of her daughter and Timothy receives communications from dead people he had known in his youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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Summary: A boy, Keith Hayward, is drawn to an irresistible fascination with death and the taking of life. His Uncle Till, who has led a shadowy career as local celebrity "Ladykiller," recognizes his nephew's nature and tutors him in the art of doing ill without getting caught.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2010
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Summary: Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine. Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the Amazon River on a luxurious yacht, they spend their days indulging in their macabre pastime. Through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012