Mills, Magnus.
Summary: "The whole concept is so simple yet so perfect; men drive to and from strategically placed warehouses in Univans, identical and very serviceable vehicles, transporting replacement parts for Univans."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2002
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Summary: In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, "there is nothing more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEISummary: In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a European summer vacation before studying at an Ivy League school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses. He goes to work at the decrepit local amusement park, Adventureland - a place where the games are rigged and the rides make you sick. There, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADVSummary: Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who, with her magical umbrella, flies into the lives of a proper, upper crust Edwardian English banker and his two children. She proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers and, in the process, teaches the family just how much fun life can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARGalligan, Gale
Summary: Accompanying the Pike family during a two-week vacation to the Jersey Shore, baby-sitter Stacey falls head over heels for a handsome lifeguard despite Mary Anne's warning that he is too old for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC GALPatterson, James
Summary: "Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: A husband's lies can have deadly consequences. When Juliet Cole's husband of fifteen years is murdered before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting. Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning, then returns home to break the tragic news to her boys. But a threatening voicemail takes this from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack. Juliet realizes that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Blackstock 2014Green, John
Summary: Marmalade, a trained architect who also happens to be an adorable kitten, finds allies in other construction-trade cats when her plans for the new mayor's mansion are rejected by the city planner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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Summary: Johnny Lundgren is an unemployed foundation executive who, after surviving a midlife crisis, finally decides to get a job. He soon gets hired by a crazy but genius doctor as a trouble-shooter, where he's tasked with everything battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARStrohmeyer, Sarah.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zoe and her cousin Jess eagerly start summer jobs at New Jersey's Fairyland theme park, but Jess does not get her dream role and Zoe is assigned to be personal assistant to the park's "Queen," winning her no friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STRWasson, Brian
Summary: "Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WASSummary: When peace breaks out in America, killing machine Major Benson Winifred Payne, United States Marine Corps Special Forces, is given his marching orders--to the unemployment line. Unable to cope with civilian life, Payne is thrust back into the military regimen as commander of the Madison Academy Junior ROTC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAJGavino, Kate
Summary: "Shirin, Nina, and Silvia have just gotten their first jobs in publishing, at a University Press, a traditional publisher, and a trust-fund kid's "indie" publisher, respectively. And it's... great? They know they're paying their dues and the challenges they meet (Shirin's boss just assumes she knows Cantonese, Nina cannot get promoted by sheer force of will, and Silvia has to deal with daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAVMcCahan, Erin
Summary: "The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the mysterious girl next door"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction McCahanMcVeigh, Dave
Summary: "He's got a bike, a basket ... and a whole lotta baggage. It's the summer of 1989. Jack McGuinn is a dockporter, hauling tourists' luggage piled high in the oversized basket of his bike on Mackinac Island, Michigan, a summer resort where cars are outlawed. He's got a family cottage on the hill, his dream job, and a loyal crew of hell-raising, tip-hustling buddies. When his bitter rival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCVCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McVeighBayron, Kalynn
Summary: Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DARSmith, Betty
Summary: "Set in Brooklyn in the 1920's Tomorrow will be better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy, joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work and poverty has worn them down. Determined not to end up like them, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple: to find a husband she loves, have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMISummary: Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHISummary: Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VANJones, Cindy S. (Cindy Sundermann)
Summary: Caught in a cycle of loss, Jane Austen fan Lily jumps at the opportunity to travel to England to re-enact Mansfield Park. While there Lily thinks she may finally realize her dream of living in a novel. But even in England, where she is immersed in a literary festival so rich it seems Jane Austen is present, her problems find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONLang, Heidi
Summary: Jessie, twelve, copes with what promised to be a long, boring summer with relatives by becoming apprentice to Wes, a grouchy neighborhood dog walker, who is facing new competition.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LANNaylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Summary: Through her senior year and the following summer, Alice McKinley deals with troubling developments at school, being in the school play, preparing for college, being away from her boyfriend, and working for the summer on a cruise ship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAYScottoline, Lisa
Summary: When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination - claiming that they were not hired because they were men - Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make matters worse, their one male employee, John Foxman, intends to resign, claiming that there is some truth to this case. The plaintiffs' lawyer is Nick Machiavelli, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018