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Summary: "Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGroen, Hendrik
Summary: Everyone's favorite octogenarian is back and, together with his pals in the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he is more determined than ever to wreak havoc and turn a twinkly eye on the brighter side of life. After a year spent mourning the death of his beloved friend Eefje, Hendrik may be older and a little more wobbly, but his youthful appetite for mischief hasn't diminished. When fears arise that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROGroen, Hendrik
Summary: "Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GROHallett, Braden
Summary: "The secrets of Ravensbarrow have been buried far too long. Now they're waking up . . . For fans of My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish and The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, a laugh-out-loud new series that kicks off in a school infested with brain-eating hamsters. Book 1: Teddy vs. the Fuzzy Doom. Starting at a new school is hard enough for an anxious kid like Teddy. But Ravensbarrow Elementary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2024
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Summary: "Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRORoker, Al
Summary: Billy Blessing is reinventing himself as a chef down in North Fork, Long Island. That is, until a young woman walks into the restaurant he works at talking about murder, asking if Billy could look into it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Summary: "Is a peaceful family reunion written in the stars for this astrology-loving author? Romance writer Penelope Banks can write the perfect love story, but when it comes to family all she's got is a rough draft. Penny shelved the idea of fitting in with her high-achieving family years ago, but when her new business venture--a romance bookstore--is at risk of closing before its doors have opened,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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Summary: Warning readers who dare to open the book that there is a lion hiding inside, this surprising story helps them discover what is really lurking in the pages of this interactive adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2023
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Summary: "How hungry is this squirrel? He could eat steaming rice, chocolate mice, a gingerbread man... or even a frying pan! What won’t he eat?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: "In the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Crowned and Dangerous, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown. When Darcy runs off on another secret assignment, I am left to figure out how to travel to Italy sans maid and chaperone to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BowenBowen, Rhys.
Summary: "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene ... My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again--which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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Summary: With its posh clientele gone to the country, Lady Georgiana's fledgling housecleaning business has fizzled. When her friend's suggestion that she hire herself out as a dinner-and-theatre companion ends in disaster, the penniless heiress is shipped home to Castle Rannoch. There she will honor her promise to Her Majesty to keep their American houseguest Mrs. Simpson from seducing the Prince of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy Prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry. But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. She must draw up plans: clean house to make it look like a palace; have Granddad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: In this graphic version of the classic story, Jak and her broken-down robot, Cow, make a deal with the scrap collector; if they will take the Space Elevator to the supposedly deserted Cloud Kingdom and procure some nano-beans, Cow will be fixed as good as new--but when they get there they find that the Kingdom is occupied by an immense alien monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Summary: To escape her hateful brother, Georgie Rannoch, penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, accepts an invitation from the queen to represent the royals at a Transylvanian wedding in a macabre castle, only to find the bride with a bloody chin, a guest poisoned, and murderous mystery in the air.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWBowen, Rhys.
Summary: To avoid scandal, Lady Georgiana is shipped home to Castle Rannoch where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch's divorce ȟouseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. She's also been coerced into helping Scotland Yard with a top-secret mission--namely keeping an eye on the shooting party at Balmoral and preventing someone from shooting the Prince. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWHimaruya, Hidekaz
Summary: Offers a collection of four-panel comic strips which, depicting the world's powers as stereotypes, presents a politically incorrect comedy of the relationships between the Axis and Allied powers during the World Wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HETRosen, Jane L.
Summary: "The author of Nine Women, One Dress delivers a charming, unforgettable novel about four women, one little lie, and the big repercussions that unite them all. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created The Hudson Valley Ladies' Bulletin Board fifteen years ago she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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Summary: "The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BROBrown, Monica
Summary: Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol -- can't she just choose one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018