Summary: Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMHarrar, George.
Summary: Red Paint calls itself "the friendliest town in Maine," a place where everyone knows one another and nothing too disturbing ever happens. Native son Simon Howe is a sturdy family man--a good father and husband--and owner-editor of the town's newspaper. Because there's rarely any real news, he runs stories about Virgin Mary sightings, high school reunions, and petty criminals. One day Simon's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2013
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Gilbers, Harald
Summary: "From international bestselling author Harald Gilbers comes the heart-pounding story of Jewish detective Richard Oppenheimer as he hunts for a serial killer through war-torn Nazi Berlin in Germania. Berlin 1944: a serial killer stalks the bombed-out capital of the Reich, preying on women and laying their mutilated bodies in front of war memorials. All of the victims are linked to the Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILHazzard, Shirley
Summary: In the aftermath of World War II, young men and women living in Europe and Asia reconstruct their lives, including a soldier who learns that material goods and success are not enough, and a woman in Japan who tends to her dying brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAZHayward, Linda
Summary: When Ernie goes into the bathroom for his birthday bath, his Rubber Duckie is missing, but detective Sherlock Hemlock comes to his aid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Western Pub. Co. in conjunction with Children's Television Workshop 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC HAYConley, Garrard
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England. Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Summary: Seventeen mystery stories feature everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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Summary: Detective Inspector Charlie Peace and his wife, Felicity, are shocked when Felicity's difficult dad, Rupert Coggenhoe, suddenly announces he's moving north to their Yorkshire village. Felicity has never much liked her father, and to have him as a near-neighbor fills her with foreboding. The boorish old man has always loved to impress the ladies, young and old, by exaggerating his modest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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Summary: When her best friend runs away with a teacher, Eden is forced to question her friendship and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Barnard 2019Thor, Brad
Summary: Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make--return, or submit his resignation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Yorkshire detective Charlie Peace visits an art colony full of quirky individuals as he investigates the murder of a street artist. By the author of A Little Local Murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001
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Summary: "Starting over at a new school where she longs to forge authentic connections, Peyton is disappointed by life challenges that expose her new friends' apathetic characters before she embarks on a backpacking trip in search of true happiness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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Summary: "Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem 1989
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Summary: Suspecting foul play in the death of his beloved aunt, Brussels lawyer Merlyn Docherty faces his family's animosity when he realizes that his late aunt had passed him off as dead to protect him from those who would claim his inheritance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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Summary: Receiving a letter from a woman who claims to have been her late mother's lover, Eve McNabb considers her mother's mysterious nature and the possibility that the father she has always believed to be dead may still be alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike-Magna 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1986
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Summary: When an actor from a daytime soap opera dies under suspicious circumstances, Inspector Charlie Peace finds himself investigating suspects among a group of talented actors and an assortment of extras who exchange unethical services for their roles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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Summary: In Leeds, England, a Pakistani girl flees to a homeless center for youths to avoid an arranged marriage, but the family comes after her and blood flows. The black policeman, Charlie Peace, investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998