Summary: In the ninth-century English kingdom of Kippernium, twelve-year-old Jane Turnkey trains to be a knight with her best friend Dragon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JANSummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOL RATED PGMiike, Takashi
Summary: The white Genji clan and the red Heike clan battle over a treasure hidden on a mountain, and when a mysterious gunman comes into town both clans try to lure him to their side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUKMitsuki, Miko
Summary: A girl at school is attacked by what appears to be a vampire, and Hinata Sorazono wonders if her new neighbor, Junya Tokinaga, the author of a popular vampire romance novel series and someone she's drawn to, might be the culprit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HONYuzuhara, Moke
Summary: "The second floor of the gym. That's our spot. Class is in session right now, but they don't hold class in a place like this. This is where Shimamura and I became friends. What is this feeling? Yesterday, I dreamed of kissing her. I'm not like that, and I'm sure Shimamura isn't either. But...when Shimamura thinks of the word friend, I want to be the first thing that comes to her mind. That's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ADAMiki, Slavia
Summary: "Peggy's Impossible Tale is told in the voice of a remarkable guinea pig. Full of action and surprises, it is guaranteed to captivate the attention of beginning readers. Peggy learns how to communicate with the loving family that adopted her, and goes on to win a much-coveted prize for her accomplishments."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tradewind Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MIKFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELGallois, Gina
Summary: Opossums deserve an extreme reputation makeover. They've been called dumpster divers, disease-ridden trash cats and worse! These shy, gentle nocturnal animals have been underappreciated and misunderstood long enough.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moonflower Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J599.2 GALEika, Jonas
Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIKKallos, Stephanie.
Summary: Two very different women, each with her own dark secrets--wealthy, reclusive septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, living alone with her vast collection of priceless antiques, and Wanda Schultz, a brokenhearted young woman in search of her wayward boyfriend--find new meaning and redemption in their growing friendship with each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KALKallos, Stephanie
Summary: Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his students to expand their worlds through language. Lately, however, with one child off to college and the pressure from his ex-wife to make plans for their severely autistic son, who's about to age out of the system, he prefers the company of the ghosts he turns up in the storage boxes in his crawl space. There he finds the totems...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KALSong, Mika
Summary: Because no one will deliver the pizza they crave, Norma and Belly must get creative, so with the help of their friends, these squirrels find a way to get a pizza, even if it means taking on a wild beast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SONPike, Aprilynne.
Summary: As her senior year of high school starts, Laurel is just beginning to adjust to Tamani's absence when he suddenly reappears, telling her he must guard her against the returning threat of the trolls that pose a danger both to her and to Avalon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIKPike, Signe
Summary: "The Lost Queen tells the story of Languoreth, Queen of Cadzow, who lived in sixth century Scotland and came of age at a time when invading Anglo-Saxon forces and the rise of Christianity threatened to change her way of life forever. Together with her twin brother Lailoken, destined to be a Wisdom Keeper and eventually known to history as Merlin, she is catapulted into a world of danger and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PIKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIKFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "Bella and Kate. Kate and Bella. From childhood they were bosom friends, Bella sensible and cautious, Kate gregarious and just a little dangerous. Yet in spite of their intimacy, their trust was fragile. Men came into their lives and things changed: a black seed was set in the heart of their relationship. Over decades, acts of both cruelty and love ferment until one shocking event tests them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELMitsuki, Miko
Summary: When a girl at Hinata Sorazono's school is attacked by what seems to be a bloodsucking vampire, everyone is on edge and wonders who's next. Hinata refuses to believe that vampires even exist, but then she meets her new neighbor, Junya Tokinaga, the author of an incredibly popular vampire romance novel. Dressed in a kimono with an old-world air about him, Junya has a taste of Hinata's blood and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HONFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "Following the intense, toxic friendship of two kindred spirits across their lifetimes, The Best Friend is a dark, suspenseful novel and first standalone from Jessica Fellowes, New York Times bestselling author of the Mitford Murders series and the companion Downton Abbey books. Bella and Kate. Kate and Bella. From childhood they were bosom friends, Bella sensible and cautious, Kate gregarious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELKallos, Stephanie.
Summary: Charles Morrow, a high school English teacher who finds it difficult to connect with his autistic son, his college-bound daughter, or his ex-wife, begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian-speaking nun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kallos 2015Pike, Aprilynne.
Summary: Summoned to study at The Academy of Avalon, sixteen-year-old Laurel learns about the town with friend Tamani, while honing her long-forgotten skills as a Fall faerie in order to protect her human family and Avalon from trolls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIKFalls, Kat.
Summary: Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- - lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FALManojlovic, Predrag Miki
Summary: When two arms dealers find their friendship fading because of a mutual attraction to the same woman, one of them locks the other in an underground bunker for twenty years and convinces him to make weapons for an ongoing war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNDKallos, Stephanie.
Summary: Margaret Hughes, a septuagenarian living in Seattle, takes in a series of boarders who help her cope with her illness, and whose lives become unexpectedly connected to each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KALKallos, Stephanie.
Summary: This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope's three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007