Gantos, Jack.
Summary: In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GANViets, Elaine
Summary: Tired of living life on the lam, Helen Hawthorne goes back to St. Louis to clear her name of alimony evasion so she can finally marry the man she loves. But she still has to pay the bills, even if it means working at a consignment shop where the designer duds are to die for--literally. Secondhand clothes. First-degree murder. At Snapdragon, the high-end designer consignment shop, Helen is at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian/New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEViets, Elaine
Summary: "From the national bestselling author of Checked Out, PI Helen Hawthorne must pose as a painter at Fort Lauderdale's famous Bonnet House Museum to catch an artful killer.... STILL LIFE The art world is a happening place--but a brush with death shouldn't be in the picture. Unfortunately, that's just what happens to Helen Hawthorne and her friend Margery. While touring gorgeous Bonnet House, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIESummary: Set in a near-future where the economy has crumbled and violent gangs play havoc in the streets, the powers-that-be have decided to lure the delinquent youth into drive-in cinemas and keep them there. No longer just a place to watch trashy movies and make out, these outdoor picture shows have become concentration camps for the unruly and unwanted. Two people have mistakenly been sent there, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR DEAOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Dogs in the dead of night: Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OSBHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: When all are gathered at Marguerite Dumaney Ladson's gala combination Xmas/birthday bash, she announces that she's leaving her fortune to Dr. Emory Swanson and his Evermore Foundation. The subsequent murder is attributed to Annie Darling's errant father who's just shown up after a twenty-five year absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARBaldwin, Richard L.
Summary: Dead and Deaf is Baldwin's nineteenth cozy Michigan-based mystery. Gayle Anderson, a high school senior in Davison, Michigan, is studying her family genealogy when she discovers a great-great- grandfather died at age 31 at the School for the Deaf in Flint, Michigan. She suspects the death is not natural. She along with her boyfriend, Philip Esterling solicit help from legendary private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press, LLC 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALMehl, Nancy
Summary: Des Moines. When multiple corpses of young women are found-- strangled, hands and feet bound with red ribbon, and a wire angel in their hand-- it fits the MO of The Raggedy Man. But Ed Oliphant-- Kaely Quinn's father-- has been in prison for over twenty years. Did Ed train someone to be a copycat killer? In order to prevent more deaths, Kaely must come face-to-face with the man she's hated for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Balzo, Sandra.
Summary: AnnaLise returns to North Carolina to take care of her ailing mother, but a man from her past, Benjamin Rosewood, shows up in town with his family and AnnaLise must confront some difficult questions that need answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [2].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH PLACharlesworth, Liza
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CHASpencer, Sally
Summary: "He was going to have to terminate Monika, he decided. It was a pity, but there it was... The body has lain buried for years, and has no face and no fingertips. Monika Paniatowski's team have no real leads, but when they discuss the case at her hospital bedside - where she lies paralysed - Monika begins to see possible links with a case she closed four years earlier. Are the two cases...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEHolub, Joan
Summary: With a giant spiderweb in the sky with the words "Surrender Olympians" written in it, Zeus and his friends know they are in for a fight, but the webs actually contain a hidden gem, Athena's magical item.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC HOLStabile, Lannie
Summary: A collection of flash fiction that explores the intricacies, intimacies, and strangeness of grief and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ELJ Editions, Ltd. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASummary: A young girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BENSummary: "On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Picking up immediately after the thrilling cliff-hanger, Negan forces Rick and the group to fall under his will, brutally convincing them to live by his rules. To prevent further bloodshed, Rick genuinely believes they can make life under Negan, however terrible, work. But he soon learns that Negan can't be reasoned with, and they must prepare to go to war now. Victory will require more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALBonansinga, Jay R.
Summary: "What could possibly go wrong? For one brief moment, it seems Lilly and her plague-weary band of survivors might just engineer a better tomorrow. Banding together with other small town settlements, they begin a massive project to refurbish the railroad between Woodbury and Atlanta. The safer travel will begin a new post-apocalyptic era of trade, progress, and democracy. Little do they know,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo y Cerdita descubren el placer de que los lean. Pero ¡¿qué va a pasar cuando se acabe el libro?!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR SPANISH WILBarenbaum, Rachel
Summary: "An epic love story and heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about a brilliant young scientist racing against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARDahl, Michael
Summary: Braden is not looking forward to explaining a failed test to his parents, but when the afternoon school bus stops he finds himself at a cemetery that is crowded with zombie-like figures pushing him toward an open grave, and it looks like he may have reached his final destination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHGomez, Blanca
Summary: A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH GOMSummary: "Jason Whittaker tracks down the villainous Mr. Grote to London and discovers an ominous plot that could endanger the leaders of the free world. With the help of some old friends, will he unravel it in time? Back in Odyssey, Eugene Meltsner and Red Holland tell the story of a World War I hero-- Sergeant Alvin York. And Penny Wise's plan to promote Connie Kendall's wedding planning business...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2012