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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2024
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDBrady, Jacklyn
Summary: In the fresh new Piece of Cake Mystery from the national bestselling author of "Rebel Without a Cake, "a pastry chef becomes embroiled in a suspicious death as a mysterious curse casts a pall over an annual New Orleans ball. Rita Lucero, co-owner of New Orleans s Zydeco Cakes, is thrilled to be catering an annual ball held at the Monte Cristo Hotel. Designing the high-end desserts is her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRAJansson, Tove
Summary: "After being told that only 'rebel fathers' can be admitted to Moominpappa's new club--the Knights of the Catapult--Moominmamma defiantly decides to join a club of her own. Unfortunately for her, she accidentally joins a club of gangsters who revel in dubious and illegal activities. And things only get worse for poor Moominmamma as her wish to be admitted as a club member turns into a difficult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enfant 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JANJackman, Clifford.
Summary: Traces decades in the lives of a post-Civil War Oklahoma family that includes such members as a psychopathic killer, a group of cruel brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and a pathologically deviant patriarch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJansson, Anna
Summary: As the bird flu pandemic reaches Gotland Island, panic spreads among the inhabitants who are frantic for an elusive cure. In the desperation that rises, the hunt for scapegoats begins, and extremist and anti-immigrant groups gain ground. Meanwhile, nurse Sandra Hägg makes a gruesome discovery at the health clinic where she works—a discovery that will cost her life. Soon Detective Inspector...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stockholm Text 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANNickson, Chris.
Summary: "Leeds, 1822. The city is in the grip of winter, but the chill deepens for thief-taker Simon Westow and his young assistant, Jane, when the body of Laurence Poole, a petty local thief, emerges from the melting snow by the river at Flay Cross Mill. A coded notebook found in Laurence's room mentions Charlie Harker, the most notorious fence in Leeds who's now running for his life, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICCelona, Marjorie.
Summary: A foster child who has been shuffled through the system after being abandoned at the YMCA as a baby wonders about her birth family and the reasons she was given up, questions that lead to the tragic story of her flawed and desperate mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CELGappah, Petina
Summary: Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPJameson, Lauren.
Summary: "Madeline Stone is determined to heal from her tragic past, one difficult step at a time...and she doesn't need any distractions. Then she meets a mysterious and captivating stranger--and over a glass of outrageously expensive wine, her world turns upside down. Try as she might to banish the wealthy business mogul from her thoughts, Madeline can't fight Alex's staggering appeal or his enticing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJansson, Susanne
Summary: In the remote Swedish wetlands lies Mossmarken: the village on the edge of the mire where, once upon a time, people came to leave offerings to the gods. Biologist Nathalie came in order to study the peat bogs. But she has a secret: Mossmarken was once her home, a place where terrible things happened. She has returned at last, determined to confront her childhood trauma and find out the truth....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jansson 2018Jansson, Tove.
Summary: Snow has been falling on the village all winter long and all there is to do is stay inside and trade tales. This year everybody is talking about Katri Kling, an outcast who lives with her simple minded brother and Anna, an elderly children's book illustrator, who lives alone in a large empty house. Anna has something Katri wants and by the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANJansson, Tove
Summary: The Moomins, in case you haven't already met them, are kind, philosophical creatures with velvety fur and smooth round snouts, who live in a beautiful valley in a forest in Finland. They have the most natural way of turning friends into family - Moominmamma simply adds another plank to the table and Moominpappa builds a new bed. The Moomins sleep through the winter, when the snow turns their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: As the Moomins prepare to hibernate through what is going to be the worst winter yet, several unwelcomed guests take advantage of the Moomins generosity and keep the family awake throughout the long winter. Their quirky but needy guests prevent the Moomins from hibernating and the chaos only increases with the arrival of a little nibling determined to find out everyone's secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enfant 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JANGappah, Petina
Summary: Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa is the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone's body, his papers, and maps, 1,500 miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. "This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAPKatona, Alexandra
Summary: "Warm memories wash over a first-generation Latinx American girl as she experiences a typical Sunday night dinner at her Abuelita's house. As Alejandra thinks about all the good times her family has had there, she decides that she wants to be brave and try speaking Spanish with Abuelita so that they can deepen their bond"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KATJameson, Karen
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text follow baby moons as they awaken in their crescent cradles, have an outing, storytime, and more, then get kisses from Grammies as they return to sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAMJansson, Tove
Summary: The Moomins, in case you didn't know, are kind, philosophical creatures with velvety fur and smooth round snouts, who live in a tall blue house in a beautiful woodland valley, beside the sea. When mysterious signs start to appear of a strange star with a tail, young Moomintroll and his friend Sniff set off to consult the professors in the distant Lonely Mountains. Their journey is packed with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sort Of Books 2017
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Summary: In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2012
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Summary: A reimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Leeds. November, 1823. When a doctor from the infirmary tells thief-taker Simon Westow about the brutal deaths of two young boys at the hands of a mill overseer, Simon's painful memories of his childhood reawaken. Unable to sleep, he goes for a walk - and stumbles upon the body of a young man being pulled from the river. Simon and his assistant, Jane, are drawn into investigating the deaths,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICNickson, Chris
Summary: When a country lad who came to Leeds looking for his runaway sister is found dead and his sister is discovered drowned in the river, Constable Richard Nottingham works to uncover who wanted them dead and why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICNickson, Chris.
Summary: In 1733, Richard Nottingham hunts a child-killer preying on the street children of Leeds, but he has to go up against the wealthy and powerful of the city to do it, including the new mayor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICNickson, Chris
Summary: "Leeds, October 1824. Thief-taker Simon Westow's job seems straightforward. Captain Holcomb's maid, Sophie, has stolen important papers that could ruin the family's reputation, and he's desperate for their return. But the case very quickly takes a murderous turn, and it becomes clear the papers are hiding a host of sins . . . During the search, Simon's assistant, Jane, hears a horrific tale:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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Summary: Richard Nottingham, Constable of the City of Leeds, grieving for the death of his daughter, is called upon to find out who would murder a wealthy wool merchant and why they would strip the skin from his bones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme de la Crime 2011