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Coal mines and mining Juvenile fiction Detective and mystery stories England Fiction Ghosts Juvenile fiction Grandfathers Juvenile fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Mapstone, David (Fictitious character) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Old age Juvenile fiction Phoenix (Ariz.) FictionSummary: Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular characters struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUCCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LUCSummary: A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANNelson, Antonya.
Contents: Dick -- Strike anywhere -- Flesh tone -- Heart shaped rock -- Rear view -- Only a thing -- Eminent domain -- Some fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELTalton, Jon
Summary: "Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALNelson, Antonya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NELAlmond, David.
Summary: Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window, witness to the moon's silvery light. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. This is when Mina feels that anything is possible and her imagination is set free. A blank notebook lies on the table. It has been there for what seems like forever. Mina has proclaimed in the past that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Katona, Alexandra
Summary: "Warm memories wash over a first-generation Latinx American girl as she experiences a typical Sunday night dinner at her Abuelita's house. As Alejandra thinks about all the good times her family has had there, she decides that she wants to be brave and try speaking Spanish with Abuelita so that they can deepen their bond"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KATAlmond, David
Summary: "Joe is starstruck, determined to find his way up, up, up to the magical lights in the night sky. "In your dreams!" his pals say. But when Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together, there's no stopping them. Together they climb ladders, construct towers, and launch rockets in a tireless quest to reach the unreachable. Airy and playful, Gill Smith's dynamic illustrations perfectly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALMUrquhart, Alaina
Summary: From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M URQTalton, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTalton, Jon.
Summary: Private detective David Mapstone's first case goes sour as his client ends up murdered, and he travels from Phoenix to San Diego to investigate, leading him down the trail of a murder spree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALAlten, Steve.
Summary: Joining a scientific team originally scheduled to travel to one of Jupiter's moons, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun is put into hibernation against his will and awakens on a hostile Earth where he must defeat a technological adversary of his own making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALTTALTON, JON
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Publisher / Publication Date: MNTRB 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTalton, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALAlbon, James
Summary: "Rare and delicious fungi spell trouble for an ambitious restaurateur in this sumptuously painted graphic novel from one of Scotland's most imaginative young cartoonists. Tulip and his brother Rowan have left the simple comforts of their remote Scottish island with a plan: to grow succulent, organic vegetables in an idyllic market garden, and to open a restaurant serving these wholesome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC ALBActon, Helly
Summary: "Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: When Tiana decides to try cooking with a new spicy pepper, she is excited to begin but first, she learns how to plant a garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH/Disney 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ALSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green AlstonTalton, Jon.
Summary: Unable to keep away when his sheriff friend is nearly killed by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy David Mapstone discovers a cryptic note written by his friend that forces him to confront his own personal history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTalton, Jon.
Summary: He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life--including his multiple lovers and his past--in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTalton, Jon.
Summary: Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He's lucky to be alive. He's lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the department. But when a star cop is brutally murdered, he's assigned to find her killer. The crime bears a chilling similarity to killings on the peaceful college campus nearby, where his friend Cheryl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALActon, Vanessa
Summary: "A high school student and her friends are already having a rough day--and then the earthquake hits. Working through personal issues suddenly doesn't seem like such a big deal compared to struggling to stay alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
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Summary: A pair of romantic flameouts meet at a dull wedding and wind up entwined in a deserted coatroom. Shockingly, Jane and John decide not to have sex. Instead, they embark on a far more dangerous endeavor: sharing the stories of their past love affairs. They tell each other everything, aiming for radical honesty over polished seduction. Jaded as they may be, these two sense that they just might be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Mr. Panda has a plate of doughnuts to share, but most of the other animals forget to say "Please."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015