Brock, Amber.
Summary: Set in the glamorous 1920s, this is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus. Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist shrouds his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Brock, Kimberly
Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrock, Amber
Summary: Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree, and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBreck, Elizabeth
Summary: San Diego PI Madison Kelly arrives home to a note stabbed to her front door: "Stop investigating me, or I will hunt you down and kill you." The only problem? Madison hasn't been investigating anyone. The only way to remove the threat is to do exactly what "Anonymous", the note writer, is telling her not to do: investigate to see who left it. Madison has been tweeting about a true crime podcast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREBrook, Kate
Summary: "An irresistible, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family--and love--find you in the most unexpected places"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROFrick, Kit
Summary: Anna Cicconi's summer gig in the Hamptons village of Herron Mills as a nanny is supposed to be a fresh start. But the community has been on edge since Zoe Spanos, a local girl, disappeared New Year's Eve. Anna's resemblance to Zoe causes her to delve into Zoe's life. She becomes increasingly convinced that she and Zoe are connected-- and that she knows what happened to her. When Zoe's body is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRIBlock, Sandra
Summary: "When Izzy meets Jade on a cruise to Bermuda, her new daredevil friend turns Izzy's boring family vacation into the trip of a lifetime. Until she goes missing. The investigators claim Jade fell overboard, but Izzy knows better. Her friend had secrets--secrets that might have gotten her killed. As Izzy digs deeper into Jade's disappearance, she realizes that someone doesn't want her to find the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLOSummary: As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWCrook, Elizabeth
Summary: "Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: W CROCourtenay, Bryce
Summary: Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World War II whose dream is to become a winner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COUBlock, Lawrence
Summary: "Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who's looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes ... He falls-- and falls hard. Soon he's working with her, against his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BLOBroach, Elise
Summary: The life of a musically gifted bird changes forever after she discovers the music of Chopin and helps a talented young pianist solve the mystery of a long-lost Chopin piano.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROBrod, Chanie
Summary: Clap, play, and giggle as you spin the dreidel, light the menorah, and fill the plate with latkes! Inspired by Hervé Tullet's Press Here, Let's Play Dreidel is the perfect Chanukah gift for the preschoolers in your life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menucha Publishers, INC. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE BROBrody, Frances
Summary: "1929, London. In the darkness before dawn, a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unloads a special goods train from Yorkshire, all means of identification stripped away. Hitting a dead end, Scotland Yard call on indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton, hoping her local Yorkshire knowledge and undoubted skills at winkling out information will produce the results they need. 1929,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROBrody, Jessica
Summary: When two twelve-year-old girls--one a famous TV star, the other an obsessive fan--switch bodies the results are nothing but disastrous.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROBrody, Jessica
Summary: CJ, the daughter of Captain James Hook, sneaks out of Auradon Prep with her best friend to search for treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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Summary: "This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRODworkin, Brooke.
Summary: Introduces Captain America, explaining how he came to be a superhero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DWOColato Lainez, Rene
Summary: Young René's mother has sent him a new pair of shoes from the United States. He loves his new shoes. "They walk everywhere I walk. They jump every time I jump. They run as fast as me. We always cross the finish line at the same time." René-with his new shoes-and his father set off on the long journey to meet his mother in the United States. He says goodbye to his friends in El Salvador, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG COLMann, Greyson.
Summary: "When Gerald's mom says he should get more "involved" at school, he joins the newspaper staff. But reporting on current events is a snooze, until he stumbles onto a few mysteries. Why is Room 117 always locked? What is the disgusting smell coming out of Mr. Zane's briefcase? And . . . why is Gerald's best friend, Sam the Slime, suddenly acting so strangely? Someone has to figure out what's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Lock, Norman
Summary: "In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick. On the docks, Ross befriends a genial young man and makes an enemy of a despicable one, who attempts to destroy them by insinuating that Ross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOCBolander, Brooke
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLDworkin, Brooke
Summary: Introduces young readers to the world of Thor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DWOVitale, Brooke
Summary: "In this book, you will meet Princess Jasmine"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017