Whalen, Marybeth
Summary: After an accident at the community pool and the return of a long-absent community member, the secret-filled lives of the residents of Sycamore Glen, North Carolina can no longer remain hidden from view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Annie Taft’s wedding is four days away, and it will be one of the grandest anyone can remember in her small South Carolina town. Preparations are in order. Friends and family are gathering in anticipation. Everything is going according to plan. Except that Annie herself has vanished. Did she have second thoughts? Or has something much worse happened to the bride-to-be? While her loved ones...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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Summary: When Macy Dillon was five years old her father encouraged her to draw a picture in the guestbook of a Carolina beach house. The next year, Macy returned to discover a drawing by an unidentified little boy on the facing page. Over the next eleven years the children continue to exchange drawings, until tragedy ends visits to the beach house altogether. During her final trip to Sunset, Macy asks...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2016
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Summary: Receiving a giant puffy purple coat from his fashionable friend, Beetle, as a birthday gift, Stick Bug unhappily accompanies Beetle all over town before finding the courage to admit that he does not really care for the flashy coat or the attention it brings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Emily Shaw, a young widow whose late husband left her an insurance policy that allowed her to fulfill her dream of owning a home in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, finally makes the leap and befriends many of the locals there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Christian Pub 2014
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Summary: Twenty-five years after she began exchanging drawings with a mysterious boy in the guestbook of a Carolina beach house, Macy Dillon is back at Sunset Beach ---this time toting a hurting heart and a broken family. Will she be able find the man whose drawings moved her so deeply when she was a child? Questions of childhood, loss, and longing for love are explored in author Mary Beth Whalen's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012
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Boelts, Maribeth
Summary: Kaia, the daughter of a beekeeper, faces her fear of bees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Todo lo que Jeremy quiere es un par de esos zapatos, como los que llevan puestos los otros chicos de su escuela. Pero su abuela le explica que ellos no están para hablar de <<quiero>>, sino de <<necesito>>, y lo que Jeremy necesita son unas botas nuevas para el invierno.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BOEBoelts, Maribeth
Summary: Evalina dreams of having a dog to help with her troublesome sheep, but when she bakes a gingerbread dog he wreaks havoc all over town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2020
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Summary: Calls to fires, an injured friend, and cooking disasters threaten to keep a group of fire fighters from enjoying Thanksgiving dinner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BOEBoelts, Maribeth
Summary: Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BoeWhalen, Marybeth Mayhew
Summary: "Everyone in Raleigh, North Carolina, is talking about Norah Ramsey, the single mother accused of being a suburban madam. But Norah's not the only one keeping secrets. After her mother's arrest, Norah's teenage daughter, Violet, is devastated and alone. She has no one to turn to until her grandmother Polly arrives. Polly, long estranged from Norah, is running from her own troubles. Down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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Summary: When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to tragedy. Just hours before, they'd watched the Wildcats score a winning touchdown. Now, they're faced with the deaths of three cheerleaders their promising lives cut short in a fatal crash. And the boy in the other carthe only one to surviveis believed to be at fault. As rumors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHASummary: At Grace Field House, life couldn't be better for the orphans! Though they have no parents, together with the other kids and a kind 'Mama' who cares for them, they form one big, happy family. No child is ever overlooked, especially since they are all adopted by the age of 12. Their daily lives involve rigorous tests, but afterwards, they are allowed to play outside.There is only one rule they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME PROMatula, Christina
Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MATCartaya, Pablo
Summary: After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARMotoya, Yukiko
Summary: Motoya's collection of stories features individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces, only to be confronted by the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic-- yet somehow find a doorway to liberation. -- adapted from back cover. "A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOTWatkins, LaToya
Summary: "In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something-hope, reconciliation, freedom. In 'Cutting Horse,' the appearance of a horse in a man's suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In 'Holler,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatkins, LaToya
Summary: In a tight-knit, rural Black Texan community of Jerusalem, the Turner clan comes toether as the family says good-bye to their matriarch on her deathbed. The family's "reunion" unearths long-kept secrets: Julie regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; police offier Alex grapples with a dark and twisted past; Jan yearns to go leave her children--and Jerusalem-- behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATMcQueen, LaTanya
Summary: "A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCQCerato, Mattia
Summary: When a young boy's father is worried about the crops and his mother loses her job, the boy worries as well. He tries counting sheep to help him sleep but they only multiply. Then he has a solution as a result of believing in his dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERMatera, Lia.
Summary: Lawyer Willa Jansson, the wisecracking sleuth, stages a phony kidnapping with herself in the role of hostage to permit a falsely accused friend to escape from police. But now they have to evade the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMotoya, Yukiko
Summary: In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and, through it, find a way to liberation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018
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Summary: Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2019