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Best friends Juvenile fiction Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Middle schools Fiction Middle schools Juvenile fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Schools Fiction Schools Juvenile fiction Text messages (Cell phone systems) Juvenile fiction Women detectives Australia FictionSummary: At the turn of the century, a time when women had few choices, Bess Steed Garner inherits a legacy - not only of wealth but of determination and desire, making her truly a woman of independent means. Adapted from the epistolary novel, this film follow the life of Bess Steed Garner from her childhood in 1899 to her death in 1977. Bess endures life's trials and triumphs of life with unfailing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WOMSummary: Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the ensuing firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TruthCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrSummary: A stylish and sexy period mystery stars Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher, a glamorous lady detective in 1920s Melbourne. In 'Murder under the Mistletoe," Phryne's Christmas in July turns deadly when trapped inhabitants at a snowed-in mountain lodge find themselves being killed off according to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Licorice 2022Summary: Miss Phryne Fisher is a lady detective from Melbourne with a fabulous sense of fun and a flair for solving crimes.In a country reemerging from the shadow of World War I, Phryne takes life in her stride, and murder too. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson works alongside her, although she often outraces him to the crime scene. Season three includes eight all new episodes of the glamorous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MIS NOT RATEDHolleville, Élizabeth
Summary: Summer for Louise means sand, surf, and ... the supernatural. Louise spends every summer at her grandma's house with her older sister, cousins, and Rodin the dog. But, this year, her plans to relax and read comics on the beach are about to be turned upside down by a mischievous ghost, bored with being forced to haunt the same house. While the other girls are wrapped up in romance and teenage...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow Ltd 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HOLPosthuma, Lisabeth
Summary: "Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POSGreenwald, Lisa
Summary: Kaylan and Arianna are new to middle school, and when they decide to make a list of eleven things that they want to accomplish before they turn twelve, including getting detention and helping humanity, they start to lose sight of their friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREGreenwald, Tom
Summary: In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports reporter Alfie Jenks reveals scandals that jeopardize the whole season. Told through flashbacks, newspaper reports, social media posts, and interviews.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREGreenwald, Lisa
Summary: As they make new acquaintances while pursuing separate interests, Cece, Gabby, and Prianka find their friendship tested when Gabby's new friends begin to rank the other girls in their grade in such categories as looks, smarts, and popularity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREGreenwald, Lisa
Summary: Best friends Cecily, Gabby, and Prianka face drama in the last days of school as a meme goes viral, their mothers take them bra shopping together, and Cecily develops her first crush. Told entirely in text messages, emails, and notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Greenwald 2019Cohen, Elisabeth
Summary: "A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled, over-staffed, over-worked life. Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HYDMoss, Elisabeth
Summary: Years after a deadly pandemic wiped out most of the female population, a father travels with his young daughter disguised as a son through the fringes of the dystopian world, trying to protect her at all costs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIGNorebäck, Elisabeth
Summary: A successful therapist believes she's found her lost daughter when a young woman enters her clinic, while the woman's mother fears that her daughter's new therapist is planting dangerous thoughts in her head.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORElo, Elisabeth.
Summary: "Dennis Lehane meets Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo's debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north. When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELOGreenwald, Lisa
Summary: Inspired by the success of their first birthday bucket list, Ari and Kaylan set goals for the new school year but both face challenges that may threaten their friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREGreenwald, Tom
Summary: When Joe's dad reluctantly agrees to chaperone an ice-fishing trip, he discoveries the pleasure of spending time with his son and discovering all they have in common.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Greenwald 2018Greenwood, Barbara
Summary: A fictional account of a slave family from the U.S. and a Canadian family who helps them escape by way of the Underground Railroad in 1856.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.7 GREGreenwood, Kerry
Summary: Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire, talented sleuth, stalwart friend and lover, is back! When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked unconscious, waking up to find his beloved ex-service dog missing, Corinna and her lover, Daniel, find themselves inextricably drawn into the machinations of a notorious underworld gang of drug runners. Corinna and Daniel need to pull...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGreenwood, Kerry.
Summary: A gathering of witches in Melbourne to celebrate Samhain, a rash of bad drug reactions, a cache of valuables stolen from Greek Jews during WWII, and the appearance of Corinna Chapman's boyfriend's beautiful and svelte former girlfriend, Georgiana Hope, add up to villainy and a puzzle waiting to be solved by the hefty Melbourne baker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGreenwood, Barbara
Summary: "Two brothers head for the Klondike Gold Rush, hoping to strike it rich. Factual information, illustrations and photos follow each chapter of their personal story" Cf. Our choice, 2002.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2001
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GreenGreenwood, Kerry.
Summary: When she tries to go on summer holiday, Phryne Fisher discovers that the Johnsons, who were supposed to be at the vacation home, are nowhere in sight, beginning a mystery that involves smugglers, pirate treasure, and the mysterious Madame Selavey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGreenwood, Kerry.
Summary: Ten years after seven Australian soldiers, on leave in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, two of the group turn up dead under suspicious circumstances, and two of their companions turn to their friend Phryne Fisher to investigate the crime, save their lives, and uncover a killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2004