Jain, Mahak
Summary: After the lights go out in her house, Maya's mother distracts her from her fear of the dark with a retelling of the legend of the banyan tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAIJain, Mahak
Summary: "Space travel is the best, but making space for friends is better. An imaginative only child named Avni enjoys the perks of being the only astronaut in her space station (a. k. a. home). She can take off whenever she wants, commands a whole rocket ship by herself, and never has to wait her turn. But when space exploration becomes too much work for a solo astronaut, she goes on a mission in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2023
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Summary: "An artistic, fashion-loving boy unlocks a new talent--and learns to stand up for it--in this chapter book perfect for fans of the Sadiq series and Meet Yasmin! Tehzeeb drew curvy clouds, grand galaxies, squirmy squiggles, and delicate dots. He made charming checkerboards and even perfected paisleys. His practice was finally paying off! The first time Tehzeeb tries mehndi, his passion for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BANAbbas, Fatin
Summary: "A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABBBain, Donald
Summary: Desperate to embark on a new life in Argentina with the beautiful Gina Ellanado, Canadian engineer Carlton Smythe devises a money-making scheme, but things go off the rails when he does business with local Mafia boss Dominick Martone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIDain, Claudia.
Summary: On the night of her debut two years ago, Lady Louisa Kirkland fell for the devilish Marquis of Dutton. It's high time, she's decided, that he realized he loves her. Also, there is the matter of Louisa's family pearls, which are in his possession. For both problems, Louisa will need the help of Lady Sophia, an ex-courtesan more clever than all the other matrons combined. Set in Regency England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIJain, Vibhuti
Summary: Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable in her own skin unless she's swimming. During summer break, Angie is walking home after training at the high school pool when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Cain, Chelsea.
Summary: Addicted to painkillers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAICain, Matt
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHABain, Donald
Summary: If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRUBain, Donald
Summary: Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, ends up involved in a murder mystery up north in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica Fletcher has booked a one-week cruise through Alaska in order to enjoy some solitude. Her plans are thwarted when Kathy Randall asks to accompany her. Kathy's sister, Wilimena, recently disappeared from the same cruise ship that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Bain, Donald
Summary: David Portland's life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company. Information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception - one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son's death. Meanwhile, Robert Brixton has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIBain, Donald
Summary: "Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Bain 2014Bain, Donald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAIBain, Donald
Summary: Television's beloved sleuth Jessica Fletcher is back in her twenty-ninth adventure. Cabot Cove, Maine, annually hosts an elaborate Fourth of July celebration, and this year is no exception. Between historical reenactments, parade floats, and the fireworks show, the community is abuzz with activity. No one is more enthusiastic than the town's newest resident, corporate mogul Joseph Lennon. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Schine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SCHSchine, Cathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995
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Summary: "A mysterious cook whips up midnight meals for fellow night owls in a lavish lunch cart while a hungry mouse looks on in this atmospheric picture book inspired by the forerunner of food trucks and diners. A delectable picture book inspired by forerunners of food truck, for fans of The Night Gardener. Noses sniff the air as mouthwatering smells waft down city streets, luring growling bellies to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FANCain, Sheridan.
Summary: Tadpole had been practicing jumping, and when he met Big Fish he discovered he could jump all the way home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Cain,Fan Brothers
Summary: "A young girl named Lizzy buys a cloud and keeps it as a pet--until the day it grows too big for her to handle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FANBanks, Iain
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBanks, Iain.
Summary: A cloud of space dust is advancing on Earth, threatening to destroy all life. The task of saving the planet falls to the Chapel Engineers, an organization of scientific consciences, many of whose bodies are dead, plugged into a computer network.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANFein, Louise
Summary: "Eleanor and Edward have wealth, status, and a happy marriage. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they're harboring a terrible, shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life-even if it means abandoning their child to a horrific fate?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021