Arceneaux, Danielle
Summary: "It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best friend--a nun beloved by the community--has been found dead in her apartment. When police declare the mysterious death a suicide, Glory is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ARCEager, Edward.
Summary: When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Summary: Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Summary: On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 1999
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Summary: Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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Summary: While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Summary: James, Laura, and Deborah along with their friends Kip, Lydia, and Gordy relate their experiences when the unpredictable old wishing well in the backyard continues to involve them in a variety of magical adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Summary: When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven year old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief. But she is forced out of her mourning when she's kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of crimes stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. As Fidelia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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Summary: Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERElgar, Emily
Summary: A small town's beloved family. A shocking, senseless crime--and the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace--smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses--adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Summary: A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules and tame its magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Eagar, Lindsay
Summary: At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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Summary: On the surface, Rory is the underdog--a scholarship kid, teased for her weight, but we soon find out that she will go to any length to secure the lead role in her school's senior musical. She is charming, conniving, and brutally ambitious.You will find yourself rooting for her, while simultaneously dreading what she might do!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Summary: "Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run -- until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: "When young, beautiful Cassie Jensen arrives at the intensive care ward of St. Catherine's hospital after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while out walking her dog, chief nurse Alice Marlowe thinks she looks familiar. She starts obsessively digging deeper into Cassie's relationships, only to discover a secret that her patient has been keeping from everyone, including her devoted husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Load game from memory? For her birthday, Dul wanted the hottest new video game, but her mom accidentally bought her Super Trash Clash... one of the worst games ever made. Years later, when older Dul finds a cartridge in a vintage store, memories come flooding back: simpler times when she could disappear into electronic worlds or spend hours battling with friends and enemies, and the love and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CAMHoem, Edvard
Summary: "The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna--an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOERautbord, Sugar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Books 1987
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Summary: "Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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Summary: Story centers around a shy 14 year old boy named Flynn Parkes who is kidnapped by a traveling circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014
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Summary: Rolando's job was crushing his soul... and then it crushed his hand. Now he can barely get out of the house, marathoning TV and struggling to find meaning. Nera is a restless spirit who loves to taste everything life can offer, but sleeps in a broken-down food truck and can't see a way to make her dreams come true. When their paths cross at a raucous rock show, the magical night seems to last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions an imprint of IDW Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CAMCantero, Edgar
Summary: "The summer of 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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Summary: "When twentysomething A., the European relative of the Wells family, inherits a beautiful yet eerie estate set deep in the woods of Point Bless, Virginia, it comes as a surprise to everyone--including A. himself. After all, he never knew he had a 'second cousin, twice removed' in America, much less that his eccentric relative had recently committed suicide by jumping out of the third floor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014