Welty, Eudora
Summary: In a career spanning five decades, Eudora Welty has chronicled her own Mississippi with a depth and intensity matched only by William Faulkner. One of the most influential writers of the century, her novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. Welty explores the complex abundance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SC WELTYDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old MJ Robertson-Rodriguez leaves the human world for Biringan to rule the land of the mythical Encantos following the death of her estranged father, King Vivencio"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: Three young Amish women learn to accept faith, love, and forgiveness after personal hardships--the disappearance of Naomi's baby brother, the death of Abby's mother in childbirth, and Leona's father's tragic accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUHarrison, Jim
Summary: The farmer's daughter: Sarah is a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. Brown Dog redux: Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. Games of night: A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: The year is 1914. Joanna Blalock is a highly-skilled nurse. But when she and her ten-year-old son witness a man fall to his death, apparently by suicide, they are visited by the elderly Dr. John Watson and his charming, handsome son, Dr. John Watson Jr. Impressed by her forensic and deductive skills, they invite her to become the third member of their deductive team. Caught up in a Holmesian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLLevenseller, Tricia
Summary: Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Now Alosa and her crew are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION LEVLevenseller, Tricia
Summary: "There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map--the key to a legendary treasure trove--seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship. More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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Summary: "My father's ships will be at the sirens' mercy. We will be the ones to reach the island first and claim its treasure for ourselves. Alosa's mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Riden, still unfairly attractive, is a constant distraction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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Summary: There are three different stories in The farmer's daughter. Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, the title novella is an uncompromising, beautiful tale of an extraordinary character whose youth intersects with unexpected brutality and of the reserves she must draw on to make herself whole. In another story, Harrison's beloved recurring character, Brown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HARSummary: What happens in our brains when we think something is funny? Is laughter a form of self-defense? Can a joke be scientifically analyzed? This program studies the human response to humor from a physiological and psychological standpoint. Highlighting the importance of vocal cords in producing laughter, the program contrasts human and simian forms of humor and gives viewers an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Goldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "From USA Today and internationally bestselling author Leonard Goldberg comes a new thrilling tale of Sherlock Holmes' daughter and her companion Dr. John Watson, Jr. as they investigate a murder at the highest levels of British society. 1910. Joanna Blalock's keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly-skilled nurse, one of the few professions that allow her to use her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOLCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GOLMeadows, Daisy
Summary: When Jack Frost's goblins steal Mimi's magic smiley-face pendant, Rachel and Kirsty must work together to find it or else friendships everywhere will be ruined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RMFF MEASlaughter, Karin
Summary: Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father--Pikeville's notorious defense attorney--devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SLAMagras, Diane
Summary: "In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kathy Dawson Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAGGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GREGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: Joanna and the Watsons race against time to rescue a high-ranking cryptographer who holds vital national secrets from being exploited by his German abductors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLMagras, Diane
Summary: In 1210 Scotland, twelve-year-old Drest is on the run with a price on her head after rescuing her brothers and father, the Mad Wolf of the North, from captivity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kathy Dawson Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAGLewers, Nedda
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic, but when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding, her resistance to magic fades when she discovers that she is next in a line of women tasked with guarding Ali Baba's treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWNational Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1999Wilkins, Kim
Summary: "Five very different sisters team up against their stepbrother to save their kingdom in this Norse-flavored fantasy epic--the start of a new series in the tradition of Naomi Novik, Peter V. Brett, and Robin Hobb. FIVE ROYAL SISTERS. ONE CROWN. They arethe daughters of a king. Though they share the same royal blood, they could not be more different. Bluebell is a proud warrior, stronger than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: A comic adaptation of an American "Jack" tale about a clever hero wins his true love by using his head.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Davenport Films 1984
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Summary: Presents advice for cultivating a harmonious relationships with one's daughter or daughter-in-law, describes principles of communication focused on building an adult friendship, and includes insight from a daughter's perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 FULGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Presents a tale inspired by the daughters of "Kingmaker" Richard, fifteenth-century Earl of Warwick, who uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gregory 2012Friedman, Thomas L.
Summary: Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016