Fleischmann, Raymond
Summary: "The Dry meets The Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense, set in the relentless Alaskan landscape, about madness and obsession, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family.... My proposition is very simple: I amgoing to ask you for three gifts, and for each gift you deliver, I will take you one step closer to Jacqueline. It's been twenty years since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fleishmann 2020Fleischman, Sid
Summary: A collection of three previously published stories about the farmer who'd rather sit on a porcupine than tell a lie. Includes "McBroom the Rainmaker," "McBroom's Zoo," and "McBroom's Ghost."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1992
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Summary: A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
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Summary: The epic saga of the Spinoza family that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history and revolves around a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2013
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Summary: The story of a child confronting a man-eating giant or witch is told the world over. These heroes go by many names and might be average in size or no bigger than a thumb. Though they're often scorned for being the youngest and smallest, they're well-armed with cleverness and courage --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books 2019
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Summary: A young girl watches as the activities across the street from her bus stop become a circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FLEFleischman, Paul.
Summary: Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 1999
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Summary: One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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Summary: Follow a girl's perusal of her great-grandfather's collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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Summary: Three humorous adventures on McBroom's wonderful one-acre prairie farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1992
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Summary: "Twelve-year-old Tyler Goodman faces off against other competitive cubers at the Speed Cubing National Championships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2001
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Summary: Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window, witness to the moon's silvery light. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. This is when Mina feels that anything is possible and her imagination is set free. A blank notebook lies on the table. It has been there for what seems like forever. Mina has proclaimed in the past that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Laymon, Richard.
Summary: Leigh is a beautiful girl, 18 years old, headstrong and rebellious. All she wants from her summer by the lake is a chance to relax and have some fun. And that handsome boy she just met certainly looks like fun. But her summer fling will lead to terror. That night in the old abandoned house will haunt her nightmares for the rest of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books In Motion 2006
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Almond, David
Summary: "Joe is starstruck, determined to find his way up, up, up to the magical lights in the night sky. "In your dreams!" his pals say. But when Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together, there's no stopping them. Together they climb ladders, construct towers, and launch rockets in a tireless quest to reach the unreachable. Airy and playful, Gill Smith's dynamic illustrations perfectly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: Edgar the jellyfish joins a self-help group of starfish and learns to embrace what makes him unique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIXArroyo, Raymond
Summary: "A thrill-seeking twelve-year-old boy with a mysterious family heritage discovers ancient objects of rare power--and must protect them from the terrifying demons who will do anything to possess them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARRCarver, Raymond.
Summary: A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARChandler, Raymond
Summary: Philip Marlowe navigates the world of the Los Angeles gambling circuit while investigating the disappearance of a beautiful nightclub girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1988
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Summary: "Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom-naked, covered in strange tattoos-to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall-along with all of Europe-to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KHOLaymon, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 1998
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Summary: A pair of romantic flameouts meet at a dull wedding and wind up entwined in a deserted coatroom. Shockingly, Jane and John decide not to have sex. Instead, they embark on a far more dangerous endeavor: sharing the stories of their past love affairs. They tell each other everything, aiming for radical honesty over polished seduction. Jaded as they may be, these two sense that they just might be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024