Trochatos, Litsa
Summary: "This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child's sense of fun while providing facts about different animals. A series of impossible but delightful-to-imagine cautionary statements are followed by informative explanations"--www.amazon.ca.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E TROEvans, Lissa
Summary: "When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge a thirty-six-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years and raised with a disdain...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVAJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJames, Eliosa.
Summary: Married by proxy as a child, Lady Isidore has remained true to her vows, but when Simeon Jermyn, Duke of Cosway, returns to London demanding an annulment, she sets out to do anything to capture his heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMGazi, Leesa
Summary: Two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves, and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: C FIC GAZAdams, Leisl
Summary: "In this fun graphic novel, a talented young chef is selected to participate in a baking reality show and finds herself mixed up in spicy competition, bitter rivalry, and sweet romance." --author's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ADAKelly, Leisha.
Summary: As Christmas approaches in the year 1932, the Wortham and Hammond families discover the power of faith, love, and family when their children's homemade nativity scene takes on a life of its own, bringing comfort and hope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fleming H. Revell 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELZhang, Lijia
Summary: "In the mesmerizing debut novel Lotus, a young woman defies her fate and escapes to the city and all it holds for her--be it love, danger, or destiny Surviving by her wits alone, Lotus charges headlong into the neon lights of Shenzhen, determined to pullherself out of the gutter and decide her own fate. Shes different than the other streetwalkers--reserved, even defiant, Lotus holds her secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZHABlackburne, Livia
Summary: "Kyra, a highly skilled seventeen-year-old thief, joins a guild of assassins with questionable motives. Tristam, a young knight, fights against the vicious Demon Riders that are ravaging the city"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2014
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Summary: "Emma's little brother Henry is a good kid--but when his day has been too busy and too full, Henry can become a hurricane! Emma wishes that she could teach Henry to be still. One day, she shows Henry how meditation can make a big difference in both their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORTamani, Liara
Summary: "Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Tamani 2020Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAMTamani, Liara
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ebony is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country, but in her new small Texas town, she pushes her boundaries until she realizes she may have gone too far.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAMBlackburne, Livia.
Summary: "As tensions rise within Forge's Council, and vicious Demon Rider attacks continue in surrounding villages, Kyra knows she must do something to save her city. But she walks a dangerous line between opposing armies: will she be able to use her link to theDemon Riders for good, or will her Makvani blood prove to be deadly? Kyra and Tristam face their biggest battle yet as they grapple with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLALissy, Jessica.
Summary: Blue and her family invite the reader to help them get ready for a Thanksgiving feast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LISBlackburne, Livia
Summary: "Mulan goes from a celebrated war hero to a reluctant Empress and must once again rise above expectations and prove she doesn't have to be anyone but herself to save China"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLABray, Libba
Summary: After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten--ghosts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRAKleven, Elisa.
Summary: A little bird discovers why the lion's tail changes color each day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KLEMiksa, Matt
Summary: Special Agent Vera Taggart walked away from a promising career as an artist to join the FBI, and she impresses her new colleagues with her eerie ability to divine conclusions from the grisliest crime scenes. Taggart's first assignment is a decades-old cold case centered on a cult of suicide bombers known as the Sons of Elijah who believe they've been reborn hundreds of times, going back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIKShurtliff, Liesl
Summary: When Matt, Ruby, and Corey Hudson discover their subway train is actually a time-traveling eighteenth-century frigate captained by a mysterious pirate, they are thrown into a series of adventures that offer cryptic clues about their past and their future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series ShurtliffRedmond, Lissa Marie
Summary: "An old wound forces Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley onto Injured on Duty leave. Unless she rests she faces the threat of early retirement. However, dreading the prospect of doing nothing for six months, Lauren renews her private investigator license.She's soon contacted by Sharon Whitney, the ex-wife of wealthy Buffalo resident - and suspected mob boss - Howard Whitney. During their bitter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDLiese, Chloe
Summary: He loathes the holidays. She loves them. She's full of festive cheer. He's brimming with Bah, Humbugs. Besides unreasonably seasonable names, the only thing Jonathan Frost and Gabriella Di Natale have in common is a healthy dose of mutual contempt. Well, that and the same place of employment at the city's most beloved independent bookstore, Bailey's Bookshop. But when the store's owners confess...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chloe Liese 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LIEJacobs, Liska
Summary: "A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/FSG Originals 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJames, Eloisa.
Summary: Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. But after a romantic proposal before the Prince himself, even practical Theo finds herself convinced of her soon-to-be duke's passion. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months. Theo would have given it a lifetime .... until she discovers that James desired not her heart,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMBray, Libba.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012