Wilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Sager, Riley
Summary: At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Sager, Riley
Summary: A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume 17-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the Bears catch the Feeling Flu, all their usual feelings are switched; until Harmony leads them to a cure. Then it's Share Bear to the rescue when twin sisters need help with their friendship issues, and when Funshine is overcome by fears, Grumpy inspires him by bringing happiness to a boy in need.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CARSt. John, Lauren
Summary: When a suspicious death coincides with the discovery of fossilized dinosaur bones, Kat knows this case is for her, if she can juggle everything happening in her life, including clues she has uncovered about a secret society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ST.JJohnson, Kevin
Summary: After losing the person in his life he loves more than anything, a young child holds onto a cape as a source of comfort and strength as he navigates the sadness and joy of his memories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHSavage, J. Scott (Jeffrey Scott)
Summary: The Halloween plans of monster enthusiasts Nick, Carter, and Angelo are thrown into turmoil when a magical amulet acquired from Nick's voodoo queen aunt turns Nick into a zombie and prompts an uproarious effort to break the curse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J FIC SAVGeorge, Jessica
Summary: ""An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming Maame...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC GEOLetts, Elizabeth
Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC LET BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperback copies)Omotoso, Yewande
Summary: "Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires. Sworn enemies, the two share a hedge and a deliberate hostility, which they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC OMOHarmel, Kristin
Summary: At the dawn of the Second World War, Inès is the young wife of Michel, owner of the House of Chauveau, a small champagne winery nestled among rolling vineyards near Reims, France. Marrying into a storied champagne empire was supposed to be a dream come true, but Inès feels increasingly isolated, purposely left out of the business by her husband; his chef de cave, Theo; and Theo's wife, Céline....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC HAR (BOOK CLUB KIT/8 paperbacks)Penner, Sarah
Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC PEN (Book Club Kit 8 paperbacks)Reiss, Kathryn
Summary: During the Great Depression, aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge uncovers a mystery surrounding a secret room in the rundown mansion owned by elderly Miss Mundis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC REIEhrhart, Peggy
Summary: Pamela Paterson has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker, drops dead at a cookies and coffee reception, it's up to Pamela and the Knit and Nibble ladies to find the killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hare, Louise
Summary: "Nightclub singer Lena Aldridge had planned to jump ship before her past caught up with her-only to find a killer has followed her onboard the Queen Mary in this thrilling locked-room mystery. London 1936. Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked out. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC HAR (Peninsula Book Club Kit 8 paperbacks)Cooper, Tea
Summary: "What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 0000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rosewater, Kit
Summary: Ever since they can remember, fifth-graders Kenzie (aka Kenzilla) and Shelly (aka Bomb Shell) have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin's city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates. But they'll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ROSSmith, Clete Barrett.
Summary: Unhappy at being sent to stay with his grandmother at the inn she operates, The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, Scrub discovers that each room is actually a portal to space and the inn's visitors are aliens who are vacationing on Earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC SMIRosewater, Kit
Summary: Fifth-grade best friends Kenzie "Kenzilla" and Shelly "Bombshell" dream of becoming roller derby superstars one day, but when a junior league forms and they must recruit teammates, will their friendship survive?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROSDavis, Fiona
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DAV (Peninsula Book Club Kit - 8 hardcover books)Meadows, Rae
Summary: "In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya's only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MEA (BOOK CLUB KIT 8 PAPERBACKS)Allen, Sarah Addison
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won't let you go. Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horeshoe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC ALLRosner, Jennifer
Summary: "It is wartime in German-occupied Poland. A mother hides with her five-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. When the daisies grow...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC ROS BOOK CLUB KIT ( 8 paperbacks)Shipman, Viola
Summary: Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha "Sam" Mullins felt trapped on her family's orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked, undervalued sous chef at a reality star's New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed. When the chef embarrasses Sam, she quits and returns home. Unemployed, single, and defeated, she spends a summer...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018