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Summary: When Maddy's cheating ex-husband shows up in Timber Ridge with a scheme to win Maddy back and is later found stabbed to death with a barbecue skewer, Maddy and Eleanor must investigate to find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013
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Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALEWolas, Cherise
Summary: ""A stunning debut...Reminds me of my most favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Joan Didion." --A.M. Homes I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do--work is paramount, absolutely no children--and now love seems to me quite marvelous. These words are spoken to a rapturous audience by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLCruz, Caris Avendaño
Summary: Swept into Engkantos, the land of gods and spirits, ten-year-old Marikit embarks on a quest to save her family from a sinister shadow god.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CRULin, Chia-Chia
Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINPriest, Cherie
Summary: "Inconsistent psychic Leda Foley and Seattle detective Grady Merritt return to solve the case of a missing couple in this sequel to the "delightful" (The New York Times Book Review) mystery Grave Reservations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRICrais, Robert.
Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRAMcCarthy, Cori
Summary: "Ona zhivet radi skorosti, no umret radi liubvi". Nedalekoe budushchee. Amerika vstupila vo Vtoruiu kholodnuiu voinu s Zhi Siundi - aziatskoi sverkhderzhavoi, chi krasnye bespilotniki vnushaiut strakh vsemu ostalnomu miru. Teper edinstvennaia nadezhda SShA - eto iunye piloty reaktivnykh istrebitelei iz Obedinennoi Zvezdnoi Akademii. Cheiz Kharkort, pozyvnoi "Niks", ne liubit igrat po pravilam....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Izdatelʹstvo "Ė" 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN RUSSIAN MCCDimaline, Cherie
Summary: "In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dancing Cat Books 2017
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DIMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DIMPriest, Cherie.
Summary: Maria Isabella Boyd's success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIBurnell, Heather Ayris
Summary: "Unicorn and Yeti try new things. They have fun with stickers. They roller skate everywhere. They chew gum and blow bubbles. And they always stick together!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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Summary: Retiring from his life of crime to write novels in Venice, gentleman thief Charlie is blackmailed into committing a dastardly deed in order to reclaim a prized rare book that has been stolen by a femme-fatale burglar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWAGenoa, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eraserhead Press 2005
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Genoa 2005Onstad, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ONSSchweizer, Chris.
Summary: "Legionnaire Peter Crogan has some hard questions to answer. Should he finish out the tail end of his 5-year term of service with the French Foreign Legion, or become an officer? There's not much time to consider his options as his life is invaded by armies of Tauregs, brutal sandstorms, and terrible man-eating creatures! Is he heading in a new direction, or are these the final steps in Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SCHChin, YZ
Summary: "When her husband suddenly disappears, a young woman must uncover where he went-and who she might be without him-in this striking debut of immigration, identity, and marriage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIAdrian, Chris
Summary: A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADRCulver, Chris
Summary: "Detective Sergeant Ash Rashid wants little out of life: a steady job, a quiet place to call home, and a healthy family. Now three hundred days sober, for the first time he can see his happy ending forming on the horizon. Then patrol officers find the body. The victim has chemical burns on her arms, two broken legs, and a gash on her throat so deep it exposes the vertebra of her neck. Then they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULGrine, Chris
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Willow doesn't want to go to her dad's weird old summer camp any more than she wants her family to move to the weird old town where that camp is located. But her family--and fate itself--seem to have plans of their own. Soon Willow finds herself neck-deep in a confounding mystery involving stolen snacks, suspected vampires, and missing campers, all shrouded in the sinister fog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2021
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Summary: "Leeds, May 1822. Thief-taker Simon Westow owes Davey and Emily Ashton everything - the siblings gave him sanctuary when he needed it most. So when Davey is arrested for sedition and Emily begs Simon for help, he starts asking questions, determined to clear his friend. Are the answers linked to rumours of a mysterious government spy in town? Davey's not the only one who needs Simon's help....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICSimms, Chris
Summary: "After a body is found in a canal, tied up in a sleeping bag and weighed down with bricks, DC Sean Blake is sent in to investigate. Another body with links to the first is soon discovered under similar circumstances, meaning a clear pattern is emerging and a mysterious figure seen asking questions about the victims becomes the prime suspect. But as Blake delves into the pasts of those killed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMAkunin, B. (Boris)
Summary: "Detektivnyĭ roman Borisa Akunina, deĭstvie kotorogo razvorachivaetsia na fone groznykh sobytiĭ voĭny 1812 goda, iavliaetsia khudozhestvennym prilozheniem k sed'momu tomu proekta 'Istoriia Rossiĭskogo gosudarstva'. Takoĭ pary syshchikov v istorii kriminal'nogo zhanra, kazhetsia, eshche ne bylo..." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Izdatelʹstvo AST 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 FIC AKUBohjalian, Chris
Summary: "The first time Alexis saw Austin, it was a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austin's arm. Six months later, on the brink of falling in love, they travel to Vietnam on a bike tour so that Austin can show her his passion for cycling and he can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But as Alexis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOHCulver, Chris
Summary: Now working for the police force's community relations department, Ash Rashid gives speeches instead of tracking criminals, but when he discovers two dead bodies during his evening commute, Ash joins the homicide investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2014