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Summary: A novel on motherhood whose protagonists are four women working in a Los Angeles hair salon. The white woman neglects her children, one black has problems with them, a second is planning single motherhood, and a third, infertile, has difficulty finding a child to adopt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJACKSONS
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JACThe Jacksons
Summary: "Triple Feature" includes the following 3 The Jacksons Studio Albums : The Jacksons, Goin' Places, Victory. This configuration features the 3 CDs in a slim Soft Pack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JACBrady, Jacklyn
Summary: In the fresh new Piece of Cake Mystery from the national bestselling author of "Rebel Without a Cake, "a pastry chef becomes embroiled in a suspicious death as a mysterious curse casts a pall over an annual New Orleans ball. Rita Lucero, co-owner of New Orleans s Zydeco Cakes, is thrilled to be catering an annual ball held at the Monte Cristo Hotel. Designing the high-end desserts is her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRANickson, Chris.
Summary: "Leeds, 1822. The city is in the grip of winter, but the chill deepens for thief-taker Simon Westow and his young assistant, Jane, when the body of Laurence Poole, a petty local thief, emerges from the melting snow by the river at Flay Cross Mill. A coded notebook found in Laurence's room mentions Charlie Harker, the most notorious fence in Leeds who's now running for his life, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICJacklin, Julia
Contents: Lydia wears a cross -- Love, try not to let go -- Ignore tenderness -- I was neon -- Too in love to die -- Less of a stranger -- Moviegoer -- Magic -- Be careful with yourself -- End of a friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JACJamison, John.
Summary: "Stories and recipes from our farm to your table"
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food JamisonJansson, Tove
Summary: "After being told that only 'rebel fathers' can be admitted to Moominpappa's new club--the Knights of the Catapult--Moominmamma defiantly decides to join a club of her own. Unfortunately for her, she accidentally joins a club of gangsters who revel in dubious and illegal activities. And things only get worse for poor Moominmamma as her wish to be admitted as a club member turns into a difficult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enfant 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JANJacklin, Julia
Summary: The second full-length album from Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin, it embodies every possible meaning of its title word. It's an album formed from the sheer intensity of feeling, an in-the-moment narrative of heartbreak and infatuation. And with her storytelling centered on bodies and crossed boundaries and smothering closeness, it reveals how the physical experience of the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JACJackman, Clifford.
Summary: Traces decades in the lives of a post-Civil War Oklahoma family that includes such members as a psychopathic killer, a group of cruel brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and a pathologically deviant patriarch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJansson, Anna
Summary: As the bird flu pandemic reaches Gotland Island, panic spreads among the inhabitants who are frantic for an elusive cure. In the desperation that rises, the hunt for scapegoats begins, and extremist and anti-immigrant groups gain ground. Meanwhile, nurse Sandra Hägg makes a gruesome discovery at the health clinic where she works—a discovery that will cost her life. Soon Detective Inspector...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stockholm Text 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANJansson, Tove.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: OVS 741.5 JANJameson, (Anna)
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Bell & Sons 1897
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 JAMJameson, Lauren.
Summary: "Madeline Stone is determined to heal from her tragic past, one difficult step at a time...and she doesn't need any distractions. Then she meets a mysterious and captivating stranger--and over a glass of outrageously expensive wine, her world turns upside down. Try as she might to banish the wealthy business mogul from her thoughts, Madeline can't fight Alex's staggering appeal or his enticing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJansson, Susanne
Summary: In the remote Swedish wetlands lies Mossmarken: the village on the edge of the mire where, once upon a time, people came to leave offerings to the gods. Biologist Nathalie came in order to study the peat bogs. But she has a secret: Mossmarken was once her home, a place where terrible things happened. She has returned at last, determined to confront her childhood trauma and find out the truth....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jansson 2018Jansson, Tove.
Summary: Snow has been falling on the village all winter long and all there is to do is stay inside and trade tales. This year everybody is talking about Katri Kling, an outcast who lives with her simple minded brother and Anna, an elderly children's book illustrator, who lives alone in a large empty house. Anna has something Katri wants and by the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANGreene, Jayson
Summary: "As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GREENE, JAYSON GREJansson, Tove
Summary: The Moomins, in case you haven't already met them, are kind, philosophical creatures with velvety fur and smooth round snouts, who live in a beautiful valley in a forest in Finland. They have the most natural way of turning friends into family - Moominmamma simply adds another plank to the table and Moominpappa builds a new bed. The Moomins sleep through the winter, when the snow turns their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: As the Moomins prepare to hibernate through what is going to be the worst winter yet, several unwelcomed guests take advantage of the Moomins generosity and keep the family awake throughout the long winter. Their quirky but needy guests prevent the Moomins from hibernating and the chaos only increases with the arrival of a little nibling determined to find out everyone's secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enfant 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JANNickson, Chris
Summary: "Leeds. April, 1824. Wealthy engineer Joseph Clark employs thief-taker Simon Westow to find the men who stole the buried corpse of Catherine Jordan, his employee's daughter. Simon is stunned and horrified to realize there's a gang of body snatchers in Leeds. He needs to discover who bought Catherine's body and where it is now. As he hunts for answers, he learns that a number of corpses have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICNickson, Chris
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 NICJansson, Tove
Summary: The Moomins, in case you didn't know, are kind, philosophical creatures with velvety fur and smooth round snouts, who live in a tall blue house in a beautiful woodland valley, beside the sea. When mysterious signs start to appear of a strange star with a tail, young Moomintroll and his friend Sniff set off to consult the professors in the distant Lonely Mountains. Their journey is packed with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sort Of Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JANJansson, Tove.
Summary: In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2012
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Jamison, Leslie
Summary: "With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019