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Summary: Shaggy and Scooby are on the case when a phantom dog kidnaps a toy poodle who is about to compete in a dog show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SANCollins, Manda
Summary: "England, 1865: As one of England's most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power. And she's determined to inform and educate the ladies of London on the nefarious-and deadly-criminals who are praying on the fairer sex. When her reporting leads to the arrest of a notorious killer, however, Katherine flees to a country house party to escape her newfound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLSander, Sonia.
Summary: While visiting Fred's old summer camp, Scooby and the gang investigate a mysterious Bigfoot, who is trying to scare them away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SANAhmed, Samira
Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMSanders, Ben
Summary: A former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANSander, Sonia
Summary: The gang is heading to the campgrounds Fred went to as a boy. But when they arrive, they find the camp has been practically abandoned. A wild ape man has been wandering around the camp at night scaring away campers. Never one to run from a mystery, the Mystery Inc. gang is on the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2016
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2 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE SCOBalzo, Sandra.
Summary: "Maggy Thorsen and her business partner Sarah Kingston have taken on a new barista at their Wisconsin coffee house, Uncommon Grounds, to fill Amy Caprese's boots while she takes a much-needed vacation. Unfortunately Christy Wrigley's barista skills are as underwhelming as her love life, but is her luck about to change with her new beau. Christy gushes about her long distance, online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALDallas, Sandra
Summary: It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community, a position earned through wisdom and trust. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: "Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful--able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHBeaty, Andrea
Summary: Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer - the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talks about - and she knows in her old bones that it's time to make an inventory of her household and its valuables. But she finds that cataloging the family heirlooms can't contain their misfortunes, not when her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose secrets that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KRAContos, Andrea
Summary: Nora and Sophie Linden may be sisters, but they haven't been friends since the party last month. The night Sophie's boyfriend, Garrett, disappeared. Half the town thinks Garrett is dead, the other half believes he ran away, but Sophie knows something no one else does: Garrett left that party with Nora. Then Sophie starts receiving messages from someone who claims to be Garrett, promising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? The inspector and the coroner have their doubts, and further...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCarter, Andrea
Summary: When a skeleton is discovered in the hidden crypt of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years previously. But the postmortem reveals otherwise. Solicitor Benedicta "Ben" O'Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church, and although an unwelcome face from her past makes her reluctant to get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARSummary: "Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 who love Scooby-Doo will enjoy this hardcover 5-Minute Story Collection of tales. Featuring Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, and the rest of Mystery Inc. chasing monsters and solving mysteries, each exciting story can be read in five minutes or less, making it perfect for bedtime-or anytime!" -- Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Summary: A woman is haunted by a heartwrenching decision she made as a teenager in this darkly atmospheric, deeply emotional thriller from #1 internationally bestselling global superstar Sara Blaedel. Detective Louise Rick is on a beach in Thailand when the panicked call from her father comes through. Louise′s beloved brother, Mikkel, has attempted suicide. His wife, Trine, left him days earlier,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLAParetsky, Sara
Summary: Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Paretsky 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PARLövestam, Sara
Summary: When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can't contact the police?" That's where Kouplan comes in. He's an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVParetsky, Sara
Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara
Summary: Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARHerchenroether, Sara
Summary: "In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERParetsky, Sara
Summary: For V. I. Warshawski, saving a friend's nephew from a murder arrest turns into a tangle with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and shady thieves, proving the only one you can trust is yourself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018