Summary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICSummary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from The Wizard Oz is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show and tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause". Everyone knows everyone else's business - or at least they think they do.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICWilkes, Maria D.
Summary: An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILHawkins, Paula
Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWRex, Adam
Summary: Gumluck, a young, naíve wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC REXJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "In his younger days, Taylor Callahan didn't know right from wrong - and didn't much care either. As a Confederate bushwhacker, renegade outlaw, and all-around hellraiser, he gave the devil himself a run for his money. Most folks figured Taylor would end up swinging from a noose or shot dead in a poker game. But somewhere along the road to perdition, he decided to change his wicked ways. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WILBarron, Laird
Summary: Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced When a small-time criminal named Harold Lee turns up in the Ashokan reservoir--sans a heartbeat, head, or hands--the local Mafia capo hires Isaiah Coleridge to look into the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnams' Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Barron 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BARBrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROSummary: An evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom and Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. She is taken under the wing by Mason, an agent from the Program. Carter is Mason's daughter, who works after school at a a nearby bait shop. Rosalinda,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrGalligan, John
Summary: "Fifteen years ago, Heidi White's parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth--if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She's also the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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Summary: Sheriff Heidi Kick has a dead body on her hands: a homeless young man last seen alive miles from the Bad Axe. The medical examiner confirms what Sheriff Kick has been experiencing in her own reoccurring nightmares of late: the victim was buried alive. As the relentless summer heat bears down and more bodies are discovered, Sheriff Kick also finds herself embroiled in a nasty reelection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALNania, Jeff
Summary: "Olympic medalist Anna MacDonald comes home to Namekagon County to emcee the Great Wilderness Race as predators stalk the Northwoods. While occasional interactions with potentially dangerous animals are old hat for most residents, this changes when unpredictable behavior patterns make it unclear who is the hunter and who is the hunted. Sheriff John Cabrelli and the new Musky Falls chief of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feet Wet Writing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARHouston, Victoria
Summary: It's Lew Ferris's first day as the newly-elected Sheriff of McBride County, and already things are heating up in the Wisconsin Northwoods. The tragic drowning of a teenage girl draws an eerie parallel to the unsolved murder of another teen thirty years earlier, but one of Lew's new subordinates-- Alan Stern, Chief of the Deer Haven Police Department-- has ruled it an accidental death by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Summary: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the murder of two people found in a remote prehistoric stone circle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEOBarnett, Mac
Summary: There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series BarnettSummary: "Dad takes Bluey, Bingo, and Mackenzie to the creek after they grow tired of playing at the playground. But Bluey doesn't like the thorns, or the spiders, or the pointy rocks, or ... the leeches! She struggles to find the fun. Can Bluey learn to step out of her comfort zone and try new things?"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HENJohnson, Julia
Summary: The story of a young boy who goes pearl diving with his father and discovers the treasures and dangers of the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stacey International 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHAtwater, Barbara J.
Summary: "Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 ATWGalligan, John
Summary: "It’s a time for celebration in Bad Axe County as the town gathers for the annual Syttende Mai—or Norwegian Independence Day—festival. During this rollicking family-oriented event filled with dancing and food, Sheriff Heidi Kick discovers a dark and shocking event—a migrant worker has been savagely beaten but refuses to explain what happened. Then, a sudden murder of a band member shatters the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020