Summary: Too-Tall and the gang amuse themselves at Sister's expense by warning her how hard third grade will be and how strict Teacher Jane is. Brother tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Sis not to worry. Mama reminisces about Sister starting kindergarten and reflects on how her daughter's feelings back then were exactly the same. Sure enough, when sister starts grade three she enjoys the new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaboom! Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERChari, Sheela
Summary: Returning to Earth after escaping the Martian colony, Mars Patel and his friends, along with genius billionaire Oliver Pruitt, discover that all the adults have mysteriously vanished and, as tensions rise and new mysteries are revealed, must somehow discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAChari, Sheela
Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CHADunmore, Helen
Summary: A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon's wife, Lily, resolves to protect their family only to be devastatingly exposed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunmore, Helen
Summary: "Cornwall, 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the First World War and returned to the small fishing town where he was born. Behind him are the trenches and the most intense relationship of his life. As he works on the land, struggling to make a living in the aftermath of war, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the traumas of the past and memories of his dearest friend and his first love. As the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunmore, Helen
Summary: It is the winter of 1952 when Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her new husband, Philip, a medical doctor. While Philip spends long hours working away from home, Isabel finds herself lonely and vulnerable as she adjusts to the realities of being a housewife in the country. One evening, while Philip is on call, Isabel is woken by intense cold. When she hunts for extra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunmore, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUNAgarwal, Shilpa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGAShemilt, Jane
Summary: Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SHEShemilt, Jane
Summary: Over the course of a summer in London, the lives of three married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle. As the weeks go by, the couples become very close; there are barbecues, garden parties, a holiday at a country villa in Greece. Resentments flare. An affair begins. Unnoticed, the kids run wild. And no one sees the five children at their secret games or realize...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SHERudolph, Shaina.
Summary: Zane rushes home to tell his mother about problems he faced during his school day, and she reminds him that while others may only see his "autism stripe," he has stripes for honesty, caring, and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, American Psychological Association 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RUDWilliams, Sheila (Sheila J.)
Summary: Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILShemilt, Jane
Summary: Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHEShemilt, Jane
Summary: Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There's Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHERottschafer, Shelli
Summary: "Marriage is tough and relationships are always complicated.... Harry and Noelle Phillips know this all too well. In order to refocus their lives together after eighteen years, the couple begins a long weekend excursion in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The trip is an attempt to put their marriage back on course. For their Stay North they choose Grand Island, situated off Munising Harbor and due...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atmosphere Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTShinya, Shima
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Hyperspace Disaster, young Jedi Knight, Lily Tora-Asi is assigned to help displaced civilians relocate to Banchii, a newly inhabited planet in the Inugg system far in the outer rim. Banchii is the site of a new Jedi temple led by Master Arkoff, Lily's Wookiee mentor, who imagines the temple as a place of peace for new inhabitants and for those who are traveling beyond....
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STAConnolly, Sheila
Summary: Boston expat Maura Donovan never expected to stay in provincial County Cork, much less to inherit a house and a pub, Sullivan's, in the small village of Leap. Maura has even brought back traditional Irish music to the pub, and it is thriving. Then she discover a body in the ravine behind the pub, the victim's face battered beyond recognition. Who is the faceless victim -- and why was his body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: "Winter still has a firm stranglehold on the small town of Granford, and newly married orchard owner Meg Chapin is restless to begin her spring pruning and planting, while Seth busies himself with a new project of his own. But their relative peace is shattered when a gunshot breaks the winter silence and they discover the body of a dead woman on their land. What's just as troubling is that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRIRoberts, Sheila.
Summary: Two unforgettable towns, two touching stories... Welcome to Icicle Falls by Sheila Roberts It's the 1960s and Muriel loves the beautiful town of Icicle Falls, Washington. Life is good, except that her father expects her to run Sweet Dreams, the family chocolate company, when he retires. But she has sweet dreams of her own, dreams about a handsome stranger who comes to town.... Decades later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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Summary: Starting over in the Appalachian river country after leaving her abusive husband, Opal Sullivan takes refuge in a dilapidated but proud old house while befriending a parade of locals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILKamal, Sheena
Summary: "Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin House Canada Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAMKnowles, Sheena.
Summary: After laying ten eggs, the prospect of ten emu chicks sends Edwina out into the world to look for work, but finding the right job proves to be an eye-opening experience for the determined emu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1997