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Clans Scotland Fiction Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) Fiction Devonshire, Betsy (Fictitious character) Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Friendship Fiction Highlands (Scotland) Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Needleworkers Fiction Short stories, American World War, 1939-1945 United States FictionAli, Monica
Summary: In this story of the rich and fascinating London subculture of chefs and kitchen denizens, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight kitchen but his integrity--to say nothing of his sanity--is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, business partners with whom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALIBrashears, Monica
Summary: "Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrown, Monica
Summary: Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan during a soccer game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BROByrne, Monica
Summary: It takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents, telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle. Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BYRFerrell, Monica.
Summary: Determined to achieve his goal of becoming "cool," Matthew Acciaccatura begins his freshman year at NYU in 1995 and lands the much coveted job of promoter at one of New York's hottest clubs during the heyday of rave music, Ecstasy, and the out-of-controlclub scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERHesse, Monica
Summary: "Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: "Embedded deep behind enemy lines, Arthur 'Ranger' Campbell is prized for his razor-sharp senses and his ability to blend into the shadows. But when Arthur infiltrates the clan of the chieftain who murdered his father, his heart is locked on revenge. Inside he faces unexpected resistance from the sweetest of obstacles--a honey-haired siren who is his enemy's daughter. Intrigued by this ruggedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCarty, Monica.
Summary: When he is assigned to protect and deliver Bella MacDuff to the king's coronation, Lachlan "Viper" MacRuairi, a warrior who is only loyal to his purse, agrees to help the countess reclaim her daughter and her freedom--for a price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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Summary: The mischievous monkey learns about protecting the environment by planting trees and recycling paper. Includes tips on conserving energy and resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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2 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE CURAli, Monica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALIByrne, Monica
Summary: Waking up in a futuristic Mumbai with five snake bites, Meena is compelled to return to her native Ethiopia by way of a forbidden path spanning the Arabian Sea; while a girl from a different time, Mariama, flees a traumatic experience to Ethiopia in search of a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYRFerris, Monica.
Summary: Needlework shop owner Betsy Devonshire investigates the murder of a customer who was also an avid and talented yarn hand-dyer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFerris, Monica.
Summary: In the town of Excelsior, Minnesota, it's Halloween, and Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, is haunted by murder as she investigates the mysterious death of Wicca practitioner and microbrewery owner Leona Cunningham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FERFerris, Monica.
Summary: In this needlecraft novel from author Monica Ferris, Besty gets embroiled in an embroidery mystery. When an elderly homeless woman is found dead on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, she's wearing something that holds the key to her identity but also opens up a mystery. Embroidered on her blouse is her will, in which she bequeaths everything she owns to her niece Emily Hame, a member of the Monday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESMcCarty, Monica.
Summary: Scouring the darkest corners of the Highlands and Western Isles, Robert the Bruce handpicks ten warriors to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule. A Highland warlord and a swordsman without equal, Tor MacLeod has no intention of being drawn into war. Dedicated to his clan, the fiercely independent chief answers to no one, including his alluring new bride, bartered to him in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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Summary: "The ruthless enforcer of Scotland's most powerful clan, Jamie Campbell will use any means necessary to vanquish lawlessness and unrest among the feuding Highland clans. Seduction is a game as easily played as subterfuge, but when Jamie poses as a suitor to a rival clan's daughter in order to expose trason, the line between duty and pleasure is suddenly blurred. Ebony-haired, ruby-lipped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcFawn, Monica.
Summary: In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else , Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters-an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets-often try to pin down another's point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2014
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Summary: "For the past thirty-three years, Angela Gillespie has sent to friends and family around the world an end-of-the-year letter titled "Hello from the Gillespies." It's always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself-she tells the truth.... The Gillespies are far from the perfect family that Angela has made them out to be. Her husband is coping badly with retirement....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIRoe, Monica
Summary: Twelve-year-old Emmie is working to raise money for a tricked-out wheelchair to get serious about WCMX, when a mishap on a poorly designed ramp at school throws her plans into a tailspin. Emmie loves her close-knit rural town, but she can't shake the feeling that her goals, and her choices, suddenly aren't hers anymore. With the help of her best friends, Emmie makes a plan to get her dreams off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ROESherwood, Monica
Summary: As a worldwide, extreme freeze continues, Louisa's family, neighbors, friendships, and schoolwork are all affected, leading her to build a house of ice in the yard to escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton is the oldest daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher and faith healer. Every summer, the Hortons pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time during which Miriam's father holds massive healing services, drawing thousands of people looking to be cured of ailments and disease. This revival season,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESAli, Monica
Summary: "Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022