Habiby, Emile.
Summary: Saeed is a Palestinian informant in Israel whose story is told in the form of letters to an unnamed correspondent after Saeed has escaped to outer space with the help of an extraterrestrial friend. He tries to gain favor by being the best informant, but his bad luck and dim wit guarantee his failure; his life is lived in constant fear, yet he is never without hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABElliott, Lexie
Summary: "An exhilarating psychological suspense debut that will propel readers into the darkest edges of friendship, for fans of Fiona Barton, Clare Mackintosh, and Ruth Ware. They were six university students from Oxford--friends and sometimes more than friends--spending an idyllic week together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway...until they met Severine, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLParkin, Gaile.
Summary: A novel about the real meaning of reconciliation - about how, in the aftermath of tragedy, life goes on and people still manage to find reasons to celebrate. Angel's kitchen is an oasis in the heart of Rwanda, where lives are transformed and connections are made, changing her life and the lives of all around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARExley, Frederick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EXLEagle, Judith
Summary: While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, affectionately known as Pear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGEmill, Jumata
Summary: When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikely ally in her search for the killer--her prime suspect, Tinsley, the white rival nominee for queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMIEmill, Jumata
Summary: Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMIMeloy, Maile
Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX MELMeloy, Maile.
Summary: Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events -- through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELEngle, Margarita
Summary: Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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Summary: In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGPin, Cecile
Summary: "A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: Explores all the magical properties that accompany unicorn's bodily functions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2019
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Summary: "If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists. Georgie, Lissa, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLMeloy, Maile.
Contents: Tome -- Four lean hounds, ca. 1976 -- Native sandstone -- Ranch girl -- Garrison junction -- Red -- Aqua boulevard -- The river -- Kite whistler aquamarine -- Last of the white slaves -- Thirteen & a half -- Paint -- The ice harvester -- A stakes horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile.
Contents: Travis, B. -- Red from green -- Lovely Rita -- Spy vs. spy -- Two-step -- The girlfriend -- Liliana -- Nine -- Agustn̕ -- The children -- O tannenbaum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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Summary: Continuing the family saga of her first novel, "Liars and Saints," Meloy's second follows Abby Collins from the age of seven, when her feckless mother and sober father separate, to her success as a young novelist. The kernel of the story is a melodrama involving her uncle Jamie, who rescues her first from the boredom of her childhood illness and then, later, from grief after the sudden death of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MELEndle, Kate
Summary: "Everything in the ocean is in motion. Crabs are creeping, jellies are jiggling, and gulls are gliding in this fun board book filled with ocean creatures."--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2018
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Summary: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGHarboe, Eili
Summary: When a religious girl refuses to admit her feelings for her female friend, her suppressed psychokinetic powers reemerge as seizures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THEMeloy, Maile
Summary: "From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMeloy, Maile
Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MELMeloy, Maile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELEagle, Kathleen.
Summary: Savannah Stephens returns to her hometown in Wyoming with a six-year-old daughter in tow and discovers that one of her former admirers, Clay, still carries a torch for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2000