Hawker, Olivia
Summary: "1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAWGriffith, Nicola.
Summary: "A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is comingashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIPaul, Baptiste
Summary: "When a young child reminds her dad about the hike they planned, her father is hesitant --To the tippy top? It's a great day to watch futbol (soccer). But as the two climb on, her enthusiasm is contagious. Filled with setbacks, surprises, and stunning views, this warm and humorous story highlights in vivid colors the bonding power of a shared experience. A list of creatures at the end prompts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2024
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Summary: In 1827, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger who claims he can speak directly to God. In a few short years, Joseph Smith will found his own religion, gain tens of thousands of zealous followers and fracture Emma's life and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRAWillems, Mo
Summary: Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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Summary: Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILChilds, Lisa
Summary: "Rosemary Tulle has come to Halcyon Hall desperate to find her younger sister. Seventeen-year-old Genevieve left a brief, troubling message on Rosemary's phone, begging to be picked up. But Rosemary is not on the visitor list, and no one will let her in ... Halcyon Hall was once Bainesworth Manor, an asylum for the insane. Such places often draw whispers about gruesome treatments and tortured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHISantiago, Elizabeth
Summary: Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANSummary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILHuett, Caleb
Summary: Ollie has always been happy just being an elf and inventing new games for Christmas with his best friend Celia--but then the current Santa (descendent of the original) decides to retire and announces that there will be an open competition for the position of next Santa (his son Klaus is not pleased) and suddenly Ollie and the other elves are vying with the Santa children for the Big Red Suit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FIC HUEGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLSummary: The year without a Santa Claus: When Santa decides to take Christmas off, two elves go to find children to convince Santa to come back, but first they have to get past the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD YEAOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Vampire bats and killer ants? That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the Magic Tree House whisks them away to the Amazon River. It's not long before they get hopelessly lost. Will they be able to find their way back to the tree house? Or are Jack and Annie stuck forever in the rain forest?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Emma Donoghue presents a novel based on the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. As their friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DONFisher, Tarryn
Summary: As a teen, Iris Walsh narrowly escaped the kidnapping, trafficking and murder suffered by her twin sister. With few clues to go on, the case quickly goes cold. As an adult, Iris is determined to find out what happened, so she interns at the isolated Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane, to seek out its secrets. But there is something sinister beneath the surface, and Iris is in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FISSummary: Set in the captivating world of 1960s New York, Mad Men follows iconic ad man Don Draper, his colleagues and his family for one final time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MADSummary: Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, and Santa slays evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CHRBoynton, Sandra
Summary: "Pookie's family spends a terrific Thanksgiving Day together, with love and gratitude. (AND PIE!!!)"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boynton Bookworks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
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Summary: "Piper the piglet is a very picky eater, who will only eat food beginning with the letter "P"--and somehow her parents must break her of this strange quirk, and get her to eat other good foods."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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Summary: "1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. Hortense claims to have been kidnapped, but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting Rees's own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHKane, Darby
Summary: Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn’t know died by suicide. A tenuous link—one text—bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KANCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KANScillian, Devin.
Summary: ""Under Spark Elf's direction, Santa delivers presents in the allotted twenty-four hours only to arrive at the North Pole with a stowaway in the toy bag, a family's beloved dog"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2014
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E SCICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCIHale, Nathan
Summary: Tells the story of the Marquis de Lafayette, both what happened before and during the American Revolution, including all the Frenchman's escapades across France and the colonies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018