Quartey, Kwei
Summary: "Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though plagued by rumors of lavish overspending, alcoholism, and womanizing. He's dating the imposing, beautiful Lady Araba, who leads a self-made fashion empire. Araba's religious family believes Augustus is after her money and intervenes to break them up. A few days later, just before a major runway show, Araba...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUAQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "When her dreams of rising through the police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her life in Accra. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency tracking down missing persons, thefts, and marital infidelities. It's not the future she imagined, but it's her best option. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Quartey 2020Quartey, Kwei.
Summary: Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUAQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss's asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi was just months shy of graduating high school when she became secretive and withdrawn. Suddenly, all she wanted to do was be with her handsome new beau, Femi, instead of attending law school in the fall. So when she disappears from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUABate, Dana
Summary: When Kelly Madigan is offered a job abroad right after reading a letter from her late mother urging her to take more risks, she sees it as a sign. Kelly’s new ghostwriting assignment means moving to London to work for Natasha Spencer--movie star, lifestyle guru, and wife of a promising English politician. As it turns out, Natasha is also selfish, mercurial, and unwilling to let any actual food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATOcean, Davy
Summary: "Harry Hammer's latest hero, Terranaut Buzz Sharkfin, is planning a mission to outer space, which to a shark is planet Earth! Harry and his lifelong frenemy Rick Reef are chosen for Buzz's daring mission, but daring turns dangerous when the guys come fin-to-fin with dogs, cars, and--yikes!--humans in this strange and wacky new world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OCEOcean, Davy
Summary: When Harry Hammer decides to leave Shark Point for better waters, he finds squid-tastic trouble instead in this Shark School (mis)adventure. Instead of a super-cool celebration, Harry Hammer's birthday party turns into a super-colossal embarrassment! Why do his parents always make him feel like a big baby hammerhead in front of his friends -- and his arch rival, Rick Reef? Harry decides he'd be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: JE FIC OCEDade, Olivia
Summary: Co-stars Maria and Peter, who once had an incredible one-night stand, find themselves unwillingly reunited to film a series on an isolated Irish island and spend six years balancing professional needs with their distrust for each other, but on their last night of filming, their pent-up desire explodes into renewed passion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DADGave, Marc.
Summary: Rhyming text relates the antics of monkeys that play all day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE 13333002102036Dare, Lydia.
Summary: He's lost, trapped, doomed for all eternity... Rich, titled, and undead, gentleman vampyre James Maitland, Lord Kettering, fears himself doomed to a cold and lonely existence-trapped for decades in an abandoned castle. Then, beautiful Scottish witch Blaire Lindsay arrives, and things begin to heat up considerably... Unless he can persuade her to set him free... Feisty Blaire Lindsay laughs off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2011
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Dare, Tessa.
Summary: "Ever the bold adventuress, Lucy Waltham has decided to go hunting for a husband. But first she needs some target practice. So she turns to her brother's best friend, Jeremy Trescott, the Earl of Kendall, to hone her seductive wiles on him before setting her sights on another man. But her practice kisses spark a smoldering passion--one that could send all her plans up in smoke. Jeremy has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: Investigating the murder of an AIDS worker in an African community from which his mother went missing years earlier, Detective Inspector Darko Dawson collects details about the killing and realizes that he is close to solving the truth about his mother'sdisappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUARebeck, Theresa.
Summary: Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her Midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REBDuarte, Judy.
Summary: As a teen, Kristy Smith spent her nights dreaming of a college scholarship--dreams that ended abruptly when she became pregnant. Now Kristy works hard to support her young son, Jason, and her ailing grandmother, staving off regrets about the chances that slipped away. When Craig Houston became a pastor, he envisioned making a difference in some distant, poverty-stricken country, not dealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUACameron, Dove
Summary: The offspring of Disney villains get a chance of redemption when they are freedon from the forbidden Isle of the Lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DESOcean, Davy
Summary: Harry Hammer thinks he sees a fierce great white shark near Shark Point. He sounds the alarm and everyone panics! Turns out it's just an old basking shark, and now everyone is furious. After a couple more minnow-size mistakes, Harry sees a real great white shark and it's trouble"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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Summary: Harry Hammer's new hero is Turbo Tex, an Olimpet gold medal-winning tiger shark. When Harry meets Tony, an awesome tiger shark at Shark Point Sea-cub Camp, he wants to be friends, but can't seem to win over Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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Summary: Harry the hammerhead shark wishes he could be any other type of shark, but when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster, Harry realizes the importance of being exactly who he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OCEDuarte, Judy.
Summary: When Amy Masterson finds the three-story Victorian house that belongs to her great-grandmother, Eleanor Rucker, she's surprised to discover a run-down building. Amy rents the house, fully furnished, and as she begins cleaning out the debris, she opens a window into the past she knows almost nothing about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUADavy, Gianna
Summary: "No One Owns the Colors is a lively celebration of self-expression and a bolstering invitation to advocate for your special uniqueness. The unnamed and non-gendered narrator shows us that colors are simply part of our natural world. No bit of the spectrum -- from pink and blue to scarlet and chartreuse -- is meant to be claimed by any one gender or being or culture. Color is not something that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Collective Book Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVDavy, Nelle.
Summary: For generations, Aurelia was the crowning glory of more than three thousand acres of Iowa farmland and golden cornfields. The estate was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family name--no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. It was a desperation that wrought the downfall of the Hathaways--and the once-prosperous farm. Now the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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Ocean, Davy.
Summary: When humans show up at Shark Point to film an underwater documentary, Harry Hammer is thrilled. He's sure he's meant for the spotlight, but will he end up with the starring role of his dreams, or stay in deep-sea oblivion?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OCEDade, Olivia
Summary: When Athena Greydon's fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. This is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger to the neighbors, is only ten feet wide. Her ex's home is attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third (aka the uptight, judgmental jerk who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024