Summary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: Despite their best efforts, the team members are only human. As the agents work on varied and complicated cases, details about their personal lives continue to unfold. This season, Samantha Spade deals with being a single mom and resourceful agent Elena Delgado recovers from a recent and unpleasant custody battle with her ex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITTem, Melanie.
Summary: Leila Blackwell is losing her sight. Nevertheless, she stubbornly tries to maintain a "normal" lifestyle, often forsaking the companionship of her lover Cathy to act independently. When Leila is kidnapped and confined in a basement, slowly and steadily losing her sight as she is forced to engage in a batlle of wills with a man who beleives he is acting to save her soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2011
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Summary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSeidler, Tor.
Summary: Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic 2008
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Summary: Four diverse characters collide in an ancient world of darkness and magic: the amazon Gwynn, the princess Evonna, the wizard Alden, and the beast Thet. Out of that collision comes an unforgettable novel of endings and reconciliations, the death of magic and the birth of technology, and the eternal struggle between darkness and light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Summary: Olive has been told a big secret and she tells someone else until it eventually reaches the person who first talked to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRESeidler, Tor.
Summary: Mean Margaret, the tyrannical toddler, turns the lives of everyone around her upside down, from the human Hubble family to a pair of newlywed woodchucks, a squirrel, a snake, a skunk, and a couple of bats, until she discovers that there is more to life than being nasty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEIAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Summary: Her brother Ethan is dead. then why does he visit and why does he leave the doors open for Lucy and her sisters — doors that whisper of the place that claimed Ethan's body and mind? "Don't be afraid, Lucy." The world of sleepy houses and glimmering summer lawns is losing its hold on Lucy Brill. Her parents don't have the answers - they don't even have the questions. ethan has changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Summary: A caterpillar is rejected by various groups of animals, until he achieves his beautiful wings and is able to befriend a similarly unhappy caterpillar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DELGoldberg, Tod
Summary: "With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLGoldberg, Tod.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLMiura, Tomo
Summary: "An only child daydreams about what her life would be like if she had a little sister. Perhaps several little sisters. Or, even, lots and lots of little sisters. She imagines all the fun they could have... Playing together. Sharing treats. Getting into mischief. But what if she never gets to be a big sister?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis Books USA, W1-Media, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MIUSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orisha. But the ritual was more powerful than they couldve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too. Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orisha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ADEAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: After Zélie and Amari bring magic back to the land of Orïsha, the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, forcing Zélie to fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADEUngerer, Tomi
Summary: Three robbers terrify the countryside until they are subdued by the charm of a little orphan girl named Tiffany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UNGWodicka, Tod
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODCarnell, Thom.
Summary: In a near future where society has dealt with the global outbreak of the Living Dead, a highly lucrative international sport, zombie pit fighting, emerges. This isthe story of Cleese, his recruitment and rise to supremacy in this violent world where every match could be his last. The Dead will fall. Friends will die. The question that arises is that of Cleese's fate in the ensuing mayhem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Way Publishing 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELKGoldberg, Tod
Summary: "Mafia hit-man-turned-rabbi Sal Cupertine is ready to get out of the life. But it's not going to be easy. His once-brilliant plan to pass himself off as Rabbi David Cohen is unraveling. Enemies on both sides of the law are hot on his trail. His wife and son are unreachable in witness protection and are probably in danger. In order to find his family, get out of the desert alive, and salvage his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLWodicka, Tod
Summary: A powerful, poignant and bighearted novel, from the acclaimed author of All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well--the story of an unlikely friendship between a middle-aged loner and a grieving college student. HowieJeffries -- avid fisherman, longtime GE wastewater plant worker, social recluse -- lives in isolation, out on rural Rt. 29 in Glen Falls, NY....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODSeeley, Tim
Summary: "Back on the job at Spyral, Dick now has a mission all his own: find out more about Agent Zero. Scouring through the secret lab of deceased scientist and Spyral founder Otto Netz, Grayson finds his foes much closer than expected! To solve the case, there's only one solution: bring his own organization Spyral down from within. Dick's days as a double-agent may soon end in death! The hit series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2016