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Summary: "Nine-year-old besties Nour and August stumble upon the perfect place for their dream hideaway--a hidden garden full of majestic trees. Excited to build a tree house, they design blueprints, research plant care, and collect necessary tools and materials. What was intended to be a secret hideaway becomes the perfect place for a once-hidden garden to come to life for their families to celebrate a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Kids Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAZMilas, John
Summary: "A spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel. It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward-loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters-and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they're replacing delight in telling them the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSummary: A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoMalpas, Jodi Ellen.
Summary: "THE STUNNING CONCLUSION TO THE THIS MAN TRILOGY IS A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The Manor, the very place where their passionate love affair began, fills with guests on what should be the happiest day of Ava and Jesse's lives. She has accepted that she'll never tame the fierceness in Jesse-and she doesn't want to. Their love is profound, their connection powerful, but just when she thinks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALFalls, Kat.
Summary: Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- - lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FALJain, Mahak
Summary: "Space travel is the best, but making space for friends is better. An imaginative only child named Avni enjoys the perks of being the only astronaut in her space station (a. k. a. home). She can take off whenever she wants, commands a whole rocket ship by herself, and never has to wait her turn. But when space exploration becomes too much work for a solo astronaut, she goes on a mission in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAIMagras, Diane
Summary: "In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kathy Dawson Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAGHalls, Stacey
Summary: Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALMarais, Bianca
Summary: "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARNunn, Malla.
Summary: Detective Emmanuel Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M NUNMaas, Lisa
Summary: "A moving and intimate LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. Still smarting years after a horrible breakup, Rayanne diligently buries herself in her work. Aside from work, she has her cat. And other than her cat, she has her crushes: crushes that she prides herself on being able to resist. Unexpectedly, however, one of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MAAAlegría, Malín.
Summary: Hoping to celebrate her quinceañera abroad instead of having a traditional party, Fabi clashes with a mean-spirited rival and resolves to put the girl and her squad of friends to shame with the biggest quince the town has ever seen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ALEMaggs, Sam
Summary: "Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life - and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC ROWMaloy, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MALMarais, Bianca
Summary: "Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMalpas, Jodi Ellen.
Summary: Jesse Ward drowned her with his intensity and blindsided her with his passion, but he kept her away from his dark secrets and broken soul. Leaving him was the only way Ava O'Shea could survive. Now he's back in her life, determined to remind her of the sensual pleasures they had shared ... and determined to get her within touching distance ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALMalpas, Jodi Ellen.
Summary: Interior designer Ava O'Shea doesn't want to be attracted to Jesse Ward, a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. She can't control the overwhelming desire that he stirs in her. She knows that her heart will never survive him and her instinct is telling her to run, but Jesse is not willing to let her go. He wants her and is determined to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALAdler, Malka
Summary: "Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADLLui, Mavis
Summary: "Meet Frank is a picture book about our unique and beautiful qualities. Frank is a curious little alien who comes from a planet where everyone looks the same: same box shape, same green color. Convinced there must be something more, Frank explores the universe and lands on Earth, where he befriends three little Earthlings who all look very different. By celebrating their unique qualities, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUIMalle, Mirion
Summary: "In This is How I Disappear, Mirion Malle paints an empathetic portait of a young woman wrestling with psychological stress and the trauma following an experience of sexual assault. Malle displays frankness and a remarkable emotional intelligence as she explores depression, isolation, and self-harm in her expertly-drawn novel. Her heroine battles an onslaught of painful emotions and while Clara...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MALMangas, Brian.
Summary: A plumbing problem creates a small flood in the MacBunny house that almost washes all the rabbits away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MANMasad, Ilana
Summary: "Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASCañas, Isabel
Summary: "Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: "Mixing dystopian sci-fi, mythic fantasy, and zombie horror, Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, is a graphic novel based on a suppressed opera composed in 1943 by two prisoners, Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, at the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The authors did not live to see their masterpiece performed. Set in an alternative universe where Atlantis never sank but instead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berger Books, Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC 2024