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(Fictitious character) Windsnap, Emily Fiction (Fictitious character) Windsnap, Emily Juvenile fiction Atlantis (Legendary place) Fiction Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Mermaids Fiction Mermaids Juvenile fiction Neptune (Roman deity) Juvenile fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction Ships FictionSummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ZODCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ZODCussler, Clive
Summary: "Clive Cussler, 'The Grand Master of Adventure,' sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSSummary: The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain/BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MILCussler, Clive
Summary: "It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cussler 2016Dressler, Mylène
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Publisher / Publication Date: BlueHen Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DREFassler, Joe
Summary: "From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FASSummary: A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ExKessler, Kate
Summary: "Killian Delaney has a skewed moral compass, a high threshold for pain, and has just been released from prison to discover that someone has taken her niece. Killian does not hesitate. Loyalty is the most important thing in her life, and when she gets a call from her sister saying that her daughter is missing, Killian immediately begins hunting down the men responsible. She quickly discovers her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESKessler, Liz
Summary: Emily Windsnap's best friend, Shona Silkfin, is a mermaid who loves to sing . . . but only when she is by herself. So when Shiprock School announces a talent show whose winner will have the honor of meeting King Neptune, everyone is excited to perform--except Shona, who is too nervous to sign up. But when Emily overhears her friend singing, she's amazed by Shona's beautiful voice. With Emily's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: "Aaron wishes he were special like his best friends, Emily Windsnap and Shona Silkfin. But nothing exciting ever happens at his castle in the middle of the ocean. That is, until a mysterious ship visits, and all the crew members are strangely interested in Aaron's trident pendant. One even asks to take a closer look at it . . . and later Aaron realizes he never got it back! With Emily and Shona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KESKistler, Bonnie
Summary: Two women--co-workers at an international fashion conglomerate--enter an elevator to take them down from the thirtieth floor, but only one woman is alive when the doors open in the lobby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KISMessier, Mireille
Summary: "When two siblings go on a treasure hunt, they aren't sure exactly what kind of treasure they are looking for. What they do know is that treasures are shiny, mysterious and precious--and that all the best treasures are hard to find! As they explore the forest together, the pair learns that the most special treasures are not always something we can pick up in our hands"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Books Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MESKessler, Liz
Summary: Emily Windsnap travels through time to stop a disastrous ecological future for both the humans of Brightport and the merpeople of Shiprock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Neptune, King of the ocean, sends half-mermaids Emily and Aaron to the land of the midnight sun to investigate the source of the dangerous storms brewing in the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series KesslerKessler, Jackie.
Summary: Once upon a time, Jezebel was a powerful succubus, capable of seducing men and sucking out their souls. But that was before Hell put a bounty on her head. Now her only chance to escape a fate far worse than death is to live as a mortal, losing herself in a sea of unfamiliar humanity, in a place where the sinners walk hand in hand with saints, a place like Belle's strip club in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESKessler, Kate
Summary: "They say there are no secrets in a small town... Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years. She'll have to face the whispers and the rumors that have haunted her family since she left. Because when Audrey was thirteen, she and her best friend Maggie killed Maggie's abusive father. Her first night back in town ends in a fight with a drunken Maggie, with her old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESKessler, Liz
Summary: "All Emily Windsnap wants to do is impress her best friend, Shona, and the other mermaids who live in the sea around Allpoints Island. But instead, she wakes up with the kraken, a terrifying octopus-like monster the size of an apartment building. Now he's coming after everything and everyone, and it's up to Emily to stop him. Luckily she's got help from Shona and one other person--someone Emily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series KesslerKessler, Liz
Summary: A class trip to a beautiful island is overshadowed by a local myth about a mysterious ship that may have ties to the lost city of Atlantis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series KesslerKessler, Liz.
Summary: After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FICTION Series Kessler 2004Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KESBronstein, Ronald
Summary: The divorced father of two young boys tries to make the most of his time when he gets to see his sons only a couple of weeks a year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KimStim/Zeitgeist Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DADKessler, Brad
Summary: "As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal snowstorm. When the storm lands a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, at the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world as his life intersects with Sahro's and that of an Afghan war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESKessler, Liz
Summary: When she incurs Neptune's wrath by finding a diamond ring buried under rocks in the ocean, Emily is put under a curse that will force her to choose to be either a mermaid or a human and split up her parents forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KESCopies Available at Peninsula
2 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KESKessler, Liz
Summary: Emily Windsnap doesn't know how to swim. Her mother has always cautioned her to stay out of the water. But it's hard to make friends at the beach when everyone else is having fun in the waves! So when swimming lessons start at school, Emily is excited to finally have the chance to learn. Standing beside the pool, she feels the water calling her, but when she jumps in, she gets a strange, kind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022