Karcher, Angie
Summary: Together a ghost and a girl make it their mission to save the local library that is scheduled for demolition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KARSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOPalatini, Margie.
Summary: After they all agree to ignore the story of "The Farmer in the Dell," the rat, cat, dog, child, farmer, and his wife have a party featuring the tempting hunk of cheese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALIngle, Annie.
Summary: A rhyming look behind the scenes at all the magical preparations of the forest animals for the night that the bunnies dance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC INGIngle, Annie.
Summary: Once a year an overgrown, old-time carnival is brought back to life by the rabbits in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC INGAuerbach, Annie
Summary: The Browns introduce Paddington to his new home, London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB BON BASKETKatcher, Brian
Summary: Too shy to look for a prom date, Deacon decides to ask his grandmother to the event, and when a video of their dancing goes viral, he finds his life taking an unforgettable turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Katcher 2017Angoe, Yasmin
Summary: "For elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of the job. The Tribe, a powerful business syndicate in Africa, ensures that she has those opportunities. But for Nena, the Tribe is more than just her employer; it's an organization that supports the African people--until it turns on itself. As Nena embarks on a new mission, a violent siege by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGAngoe, Yasmin
Summary: "Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGAnie, Sussie
Summary: Moving to a new part of London, Kwasi finds refuge and inspiration in an eclectic and run-down charity shop where he forms an unexpected friendship with its owner, giving each of them a new sense of belonging until local politics threaten to divide them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANINewton, Andie
Summary: Rumors of the Reich's dreaded Brown Sisters coming for Czech children swept through the villages like a breeze through the trees, but the story was always the same. The Reich wanted Aryan looking children to raise as their own. Since her husband, Josef, joined the Czech resistance three years ago, Anna Dankova has done everything possible to keep her daughter, Ema, safe. But when blonde haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2023
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Summary: Presents a visual exploration of the many ways property reflects influences and cultural values, featuring such subjects as window-ledge pillows for people-watchers, artificial tree forests, and high-visibility construction vests for lonely individuals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KATKatcher, Brian.
Summary: With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATVercher, John
Summary: "Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia-a struggle he can no longer deny. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to keep in shape while he waits for the call that will reinstate him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERDalcher, Christina
Summary: "A chilling look into an alternate near future where a woman and her daughter seek refuge in a women-only colony, only to find that the safe haven they were hoping for is the most dangerous place they could be. Miranda Reynolds always thought she would rather die than live in Femlandia. But that was before the country sank into total economic collapse and her husband walked out in the harshest,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALHancher, Adam
Summary: After her father dies in the fall of 1849, a little girl and her family follow Mr. Reed's wagon train west, discovering the challenges, excitement, and danger of the frontier on their way to their homestead in California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubledday Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANKatchur, Karen
Summary: Buried bones of the past rise to the surface in this chilling mystery from the bestselling author of River Bodies. When the long-buried bones of a man turn up in the middle of December, Pennsylvania homicide detective Parker Reed knows he's in for a cold case. Trisha and her friends were teenagers when Trisha's stepdad went missing. Now, thirty years later, his remains have been found in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATVercher, John
Summary: "Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the truth about his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVercher, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALCruz, Angie
Summary: "From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRUCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CruzLucas, Angie
Summary: The day a young boy loses his mother, an invisible dragon swoops in and stays with him, weighing him down day and night until, at last, their relationship changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUCSage, Angie.
Summary: After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2005