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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOSummary: A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jane 2008Mathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATBlunt, Giles.
Summary: Discovering a shooting attack that has completely eliminated a young woman's memory, detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme pursue leads in Algonquin Bay during the height of the black fly season in order to safeguard her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUFinck, Liana
Summary: "Parents will be parents, but the joke is on them in this clever collection of subversive parent-child interactions by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE FINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FINBlunt, Giles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUFinck, Liana
Summary: "In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of Genesis with a God as a woman, Abraham as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other delightful twists. In Finck's retelling, the millennia-old stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and Esau haunt the pages...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FINGray, Ayana
Summary: Sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon forge an unusual alliance and venture into the Greater Jungle to hunt down a monster that has been menacing their city for a century. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAGray, Ayana
Summary: Now separated, sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon will have to find their way back to each other as they face off against the god of death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRABlunt, Giles.
Summary: Algonquin Bay is rocked by an unusual number of suicides, including the wife of Detective John Cardinal, but a string of hateful anonymous notes leads him to suspect that her death had been a homicide, despite the disbelief of his colleagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUBlunt, Giles.
Summary: In the wake of a dual murder during a freak winter warm spell, Algonquin Bay homicide detectives Delorme and Cardinal link the killings to other unsolved murders spanning back some thirty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUGray, Ayana
Summary: Once a prisoner to Fedu, the vengeful god of death, Koffi has regained her freedom, but she is far from safe. Fedu will stop at nothing to hunt her down and use her power to decimate the mortal world. Koffi knows when Fedu will strike: during the next Bonding, a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. To survive, Koffi will have to find powerful new allies quickly, and convince them to help her in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAMathis, Ayana
Summary: From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MATMathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mathis 2012Mathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MATMathis, Ayana.
Summary: The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis features exclusive content, including Oprah's personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Jacobs, Lana
Summary: Angelina and her friends plant a flower garden at their school. But the next day, the birds ruin all of their hard work. Can Angelina save her beautiful garden?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN JACMathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMathis, Ayana.
Summary: The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Toboso, Yana
Summary: "Their elaborate schoolroom deception at an end, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his peerless manservant, Sebastian, finally hit upon the truth behind the incident of the vanished students at Weston College. Just what tragic steps did the elites of the school, spurred on by their overwhelming sense of justice, take to stamp out the bullying running rife in the halls of their institution?! What began...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLAMasad, Ilana
Summary: "Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASBroun, Bill
Summary: In 2052 London, a homeless man who believes he has the magical ability to communicate with animals sets off on a quest to release all the animals from the London Zoo before the members of a suicide cult can destroy them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODjuna [Tyuna]
Summary: "For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023