Samuels, Barbara.
Summary: A boy who loves trucks is disappointed when he receives a cat named Lola instead of a toy fire truck, but Lola proves to be a "trucker" after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMNarh, Samuel
Summary: There is beauty in determination and ingenuity. These attributes are evident in Melia, whose friendship and connection with Ginger transcends time. A Kite for Melia delicately deals with the idea of loss and acceptance, using soft words woven with meaning that can be understood by everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chasing a Spider Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NARBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIParker, Samuel
Summary: "A couple finds themselves stranded in the Mojave Desert with dwindling hope of survival--until a mysterious man shows up. Will he help them or does he have more sinister plans?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMuñoz, Manuel
Summary: ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: Winter 1999. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BJOBjørk, Samuel
Summary: International bestseller Samuel Bjørk makes his US debut with a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer, and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime as I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive -- and shocking -- conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BJOBjørk, Samuel
Summary: "The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BJONarh, Samuel
Summary: As the seasons turn, Maisie rides her bull in and out of Dada's tall tales. Her Mama wears linen and plays the viola. Her Dada wears kente cloth and plays the marimba.They come from different places, but they hug her in the same way. And most of all, they love her just the same. A joyful celebration of a mixed-race family and the love that binds us all together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NARParker, Samuel
Summary: "A father reluctantly crosses the Mexican border to rescue his estranged son mixed up in the drug trade. It will take everything they have to make it back alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PARSauer, Tammi.
Summary: "Everyone knows that minnows and sharks can't be friends! Can Nugget and Fang be different?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC SAUManuel, Jennifer
Summary: "The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeenyear-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Manuel 2021Ortiz, Raquel M.
Summary: Young Sofi enters a New York City community garden and finds a half-painted mural. It's full of big, leafy plants in blue and yellow, and a vibrant emerald green color appears where the two colors meet. As Sofi runs her fingers over the image, she is suddenly transported to a beautiful place with plants just like the ones on the wall! Sofi finds herself in the Dominican Republic, where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ORTSauer, Gordy
Summary: "For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUVasquez Gilliland, Raquel
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VASArias, John Manuel
Summary: "In John Manuel Arias's lush and lyrical debut, a Costa Rican family wrestles with the aftermath of neocolonialism, a deadly secret, and an all-consuming fire. Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARISauer, Tammi
Summary: When you least expect it, something special will get your attention. Your alien will be back. He will invite you over for a play date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Childrens Books 2016
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Summary: Kitty thinks a pair of the Farmer's clean underpants would make a great coat--and all her barnyard friends want to squeeze in beside her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Critically acclaimed author Saul Black returns with a heart-racing thriller in which a brutal murder forces one woman to reckon with her own past--and her future. On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Saul.
Summary: "When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Black 2015Auel, Jean M.
Summary: Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: A child learns about the life cycle of a giant pumpkin and the rewards of letting it grow. Includes "Pumpkin Fun Facts" and information on growing and racing giant pumpkins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRASummary: "Banished to Earth by his father Odin, Thor starts a new life, meeting fascinating people like Jane Foster--and battling fearsome foes like Mr. Hyde! Then, as his friendship with Sif and the Warriors Three hang in the balance of a mystical force, Thor must resist temptation to save his fellow Asgardians! After tragedy strikes, the Thunder God flies into combat against Frost Giants and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 THOSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016