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Francis, Felix

Summary: Harrison Foster is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. There is far more to the 'simple' fire than initially meets the eye. For one, human remains are found among the equestrian ones. Who is the mystery victim? Harry is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred racing where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRA

Francis, Felix

Summary: Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization--an informant who is passing on confidential information to those under suspicion in American racing. At the Kentucky Derby, Jeff joins the FACSA team in a raid on a horse trainer's barn at...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRA

Francis, Felix

Summary: Asked by the U.S. FACSA to find a mole who has been passing on information to those under suspicion in American horse racing, British Horseracing Authority investigator Jeff Hinkley participates in a raid on a corrupt trainer's barn before three Kentucky Derby contenders become suspiciously ill.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

Rowe, Kelis

Summary: Sparks fly when teens Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis, but these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROW

Fell, Blair

Summary: "Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEL

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEL

Shafak, Elif

Summary: Peri, a wealthy Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. Wrestling to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor, a relic from the past. Over the evening, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Ephron, Delia

Summary: "An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine--Finn, his wife Taylor,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPH

Owens, Delia

Summary: For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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5 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OWE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OWE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OWE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OWE

Owens, Delia

Summary: "Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018

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6 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWE
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OWE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OWE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Owe

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M OWE

Rees, Celia

Summary: Germany, 1946. Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, Edith Graham applies-- and is also recruited by her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REE

Owens, Delia

Summary: En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC OWE

Owens, Delia

Summary: "Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC OWE (Book Club Kit 10 paperbacks)

Shafak, Elif

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

Ohlin, Alix.

Summary: 1996: Grace, a psychiatrist, juggles a suicidal boyfriend and a young patient's impending abortion. 2002: Annie, a struggling actress, takes pity on a homeless girl and invites her into her New York apartment. 2006: Mitch, a divorced counsellor, finds that listening to other people's problems takes his mind off his own. Ten years. Three lives. One truth: helping other people is infinitely...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHL

Rickloff, Alix

Summary: "1918: America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to join up alongside the men. Ten thousand of them rush to do their part. German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists in the Navy to prove her patriotism. Suffragette Blanche Lawrence to prove that women are the equal of men. And shy preacher's daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIC

Herrera, Juan Felipe

Summary: A country boy leaves home to visit the far-off city and the seashore even farther away as he enjoys a vacation with his father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH HER

Smith, Renée Felice

Summary: All the forest animals know it is impossible to make it through the Impossible Thing, but a small dog named Hugo is determined to try, inspiring hope in his friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMI

Pérez, Celia C.

Summary: From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who learns the missing pieces of her origin story from the family of legendary luchadores shes just met. Twelve-year-old Adela "Addie" Ramirez has a big decision to make when her stepfather proposes adoption. Addie loves Alex, the only father figure shes ever known, but with a new half brother due in a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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MacNeal, Susan Elia

Summary: "This New York Times bestselling mystery series continues as American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II. England, 1942. Great Britain and the U.S. have joined forces to fight the Nazis. In London, Maggie Hope takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Nathan, Alix

Summary: Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: For seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAT

Ohlin, Alix

Summary: "A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHL

Novales, Keka

Summary: When Lola cracks a mirror, she is not worried at first, but when one unlucky thing after another happens, Lola slowly becomes convinced she is cursed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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Rose, Susan

Summary: José is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROS

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Azaleah's older sister Nia is going to be the star of the school musical but things keep going wrong at the rehearsals (missing batteries, disappearing props, microphones that suddenly do not work); Mr. Guidi, the director, blames the ghost of Thespis, but Azaleah suspects that somebody is actually sabotaging the play--and she is determined to use her detective skills to uncover the culprit,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

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