Hyde, Elisabeth
Summary: "The adult Blaire children, Lizzie, George, and Ruth, convene for a weekend visit in New Hampshire at the behest of their father, Murray. The Blaire children carry with them a host of issues, but perhaps the biggest one is that it has been more than 30 years since the accident that took their mother, Lillian, and brother, Daniel, from them. When a beloved keepsake of Lillian's, a Fannie Farmer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can’t believe that his hero doesn’t have very good reasons. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HYDLarson, Hope
Summary: After escaping the Black Hook Gang in 1860 New York City, twelve-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra flee to New Orleans, become separated, and try to find each other in San Francisco, while being followed by pirates who think they hold the key to treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT Fiction Larson 2016Larson, Hope
Summary: "Twelve-year-old twin adventurers Cleopatra and Alexandra Dodge are reunited with their father and realize that two family heirlooms reveal the location of a treasure that is their birthright. When they set sail with Captain Tarboro on the Almira, they know they're heading into danger --the ocean is filled with new and old enemies, including their nemesis, the infamous pirate Felix...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Larson 2017Hardinger, Elizabeth
Summary: Growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow knows how to do a lot, but when her mom dies after a young illness, Bertie finds herself in charge of four younger siblings and struggling to keep the family together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books 2019
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Summary: Growing up in a house filled with silence and devoid of emotion, siblings Julian, a scientist who lives a life of seclusion, and Paula, a talented opera singer, must confront and overcome the past when dark secrets resurface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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Summary: "Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRBerg, Elizabeth.
Summary: Returning home for a family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister's allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and must come to terms with the truth and lies within their family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BergCrook, Elizabeth
Summary: Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred. The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's unshakeable resolve to stalk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: A collection of stories tell of two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC STROUTWatson, Jude
Summary: The Outcast recreates the conditions for the Titanic disaster and gives Dan and Amy Cahill just days to stop the shipwreck from taking place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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Lim, Elizabeth
Summary: The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: "Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION STRWatson, Jude.
Summary: A clue takes Amy and Dan Cahill to Egypt, where they investigate the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of their family and try to figure out if they can trust a message from their dead grandmother Grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THIWatson, Jude
Summary: March and Jules are teenage twins, following in their father's footsteps as jewel thieves, but when their latest job goes wrong they end up with one jewel, a sapphire called the Morning Star, one of three cursed jewels--and the only way they can break the curse is to elude the FBI, Interpol, and a gang of international criminals, find the other two jewels, and reunite them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WATWatson, Jude.
Summary: Amy and Dan cross the oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLUWatson, Jude.
Summary: After seven members of their family are kidnapped by an organization called the Vespers, Dan and Amy Cahill must race against time to track down an ancient map to pay as ransom to bring the hostages home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC THIHope, Laura Lee.
Summary: Twins Freddie and Flossie enjoy a day at the beach with their dog Snap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2005
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE HOPHope, Laura Lee.
Summary: Twins Freddie and Flossie play at having a store and at being firefighters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2005
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE HOPHope, Laura Lee.
Summary: After planting a seed, twins Freddie and Flossie and their dog Snap imagine what it might grow to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE HOPKann, Victoria.
Summary: Pinkalicious: A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.McCaffrey, Anne.
Summary: Leaving Petaybee to help rescue a family friend, selkie twins Ronan and Murel are imprisoned by the Company, which wants them as workers, and an unscrupulous scientist, who hopes to study their unusual shape-changing talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008