Hautman, Pete
Summary: In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HAUFisher, Lija
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren learns that his recently deceased father was not an archaeologist as he was told, but rather a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive mythological creatures, and now Clivo must pick up where his father left off and track down a cryptid whose blood grants immortality before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISHartman, Rachel
Summary: Tess is a girl on a mission to save a friend. Spira is a dragon seeking a new identity. Marga is a woman staking her claim on a man's world. Jacomo is a priest searching for his soul. There are those who would give their lives to keep it hidden. And those who would destroy it. The only people who will truly find the Serpent are those who have awakened to the world around them-- with eyes open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HARJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACHautman, Pete
Summary: "David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he'll have to do better. He's going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it because he borrowed his mom's credit card and accidentally put two thousand dollars on it. So he really needs that pizza money. Like,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE HAUHarman, Patricia
Summary: Though the Great Depression is behind the them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war. It is only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray. In the town of Hope River, midwife Patience Hester's husband, Daniel has vowed never to take up arms again; he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War. When he is imprisoned for his beliefs, Patience and their four children are left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HARTrochatos, Litsa
Summary: "This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child's sense of fun while providing facts about different animals. A series of impossible but delightful-to-imagine cautionary statements are followed by informative explanations"--www.amazon.ca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E TROHarman, Patricia
Summary: The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARHartman, Rachel
Summary: "Seraphina, half-dragon and half-human, searches for others like her who can make the difference in the war between dragons and humans in the kingdom of Goredd"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHartman, Virginia
Summary: "Loni Mae Murrow's life in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained. Single and in her mid-thirties, she's a bird artist at the Smithsonian who spends her days at a desk, making elaborate drawings of belted kingfishers and scrub-jays and purple gallinules. Then she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARNyman, Risa
Summary: After Rocky's dad dies and he over hears his mom admit that her story about how he died was bogus, his trust unravels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Nyman 2020Hertmans, Stefan
Summary: "In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. Short Description War and Turpentine centers on two men distanced by time: a religious painter whose life is changed forever by World War One; and his grandson, a writer reckoning with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERMeruane, Lina
Summary: Una mujer sufre una severa hemorragia oftalmol?gica que alterar? sus relaciones con el entorno familiar y conyugal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC MERKargman, Jill
Summary: For two decades, 39-year-old Eden Clyde has been enjoying wealth and glamour as the muse and lover of Otto Clyde, the ultra-famous and much older king of the art world. Genetically, she hit the lottery, but Eden is unlucky in love. Eighteen years ago, she put aside her dream of true love and marriage and has turned a blind eye to Otto's philandering in exchange for a life without want.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KARJudge, Lita
Summary: "Hoot the owl is excited to teach his younger sister all of his wisdom--but much to his annoyance, Peep is more interested in capturing the magic of the world around her than in listening to his advice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JUDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUDCharman, Katrina
Summary: "A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHACharman, Katrina
Summary: Tag, Skyla, and Blaze are on a new quest to find Blaze's family, and Thorn's twin brother, Claw (who claims to be nothing like his evil brother), has offered to guide them to the mysterious Golden Temple where the firehawks were last seen; but the jungle is full of dangers and Tag is not sure they can trust Claw--and even if they find the firehawks, will that help them return to their home in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: Now that Thorn has been defeated, Tag and his friend Skyla embark on a new quest, to find Blaze's lost family and the other firehawks who disappeared through a portal to the Cloud Kingdom; but the Cloud Kingdom is full of new dangers, and when giant birds seize Blaze and carry her off Tag and Skyla are left to try and free their friend--with only a magic map to guide them, and the threat of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHACharman, Katrina
Summary: Skull, the Shadow, and a few of the rat army escaped into Perodia, and now Tag and the other defenders must locate them, and also find their friend, Bod, who is still trapped in the Underland with the rest of the rat army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: "The evil Lord Business is planning to glue the world together, and Wyldstyle must go on a daring mission to stop him! Can she find the Special--the only person in the universe that can defeat Lord Business--before it's too late?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB HOL BASKETAlbert, Elisa
Summary: In snowy upstate New York, Ari, a struggling mother of a one-year-old, and Mina, a nine-months-pregnant woman who is new to town, become comrades-in-arms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBSabatinelli, Elisa
Summary: When a greedy entrepreneur searching for a legendary pearl forces Hector's family to close their tourist expedition business in an Italian coastal town, Hector decides to thwart the man's plans and save the sea, his family, and his dream of becoming a deep-sea diver, just like his father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SABBaker, Liza
Summary: Presents excerpts from the Disney versions of five classic fairy tales--"Beauty and the Beast," "Cinderella," "The Little Mermaid," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and "Aladdin."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2001
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Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020