Harte, Marie
Summary: "Rena Jackson is a diehard romantic, and she's had her eye on Axel Heller for a while. He's got the tall-brooding-and-handsome thing down pat, but he guards his heart well, and Rena is tired of waiting for him to notice her. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, she decides it's time to forget about Axel and find her own Mr. Right. But that's when Axel makes her a bet that involves the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARPellegrino, Amanda
Summary: Cate, Lauren, Olivia and Max all have one thing in common: they're overworked, overtired and underpaid assistants to some of the most powerful men in the entertainment industries. When they secretly start an anonymous blog detailing their experiences, their posts go viral and hundreds of other women come forward with stories of their own. Confronted with the risks of newfound fame and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PELPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PIEPellegrini, Nina.
Summary: An adopted Korean girl discovers that her classmates have different types of families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PELPreus, Margi
Summary: In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Preus 2014Swindells, Madge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWIPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEPiercy, Marge.
Summary: A novel on an unusual household in our day and age, three generations of women living together in Boston. They are a lawyer who owns the house, her ailing mother--the mother had no time for the lawyer before she fell ill--and the lawyer's daughter, unemployed and on drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PiercyPiercy, Marge
Summary: A collection of short stories offers glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEPiercy, Marge.
Summary: Coming of age in a post-Civil War New York City tenement flat, Jewish-Russian Freydeh juggles multiple jobs to earn passage for her family, until she learns that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PIEPiercy, Marge.
Summary: Three dedicated artists living in a small Cape Cod community watch the seasonal migration of summer people with mixed emotions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIELanagan, Margo.
Summary: Ten fantasy stories to tease and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan. Ten brilliant stories to unsettle and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice. 'White Time is book of absolutely outstanding short stories . . . a collection of extraordinary richness and power that will reward adult as well as teenage readers.' Adelaide Advertiser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 2006
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Preus, Margi
Summary: In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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Summary: Years after her sisters venture Outside and vanish in a snow squall, thirteen-year-old Tag sets out to rescue the lost Youngers, accompanied by an unlikely crew--Boots, who can climb anything; Ant, who will eat anything; and Ren, who will say anything. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PRERabb, Margo
Summary: "Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times, Lucy retaliates. But when the fallout is far worse than she meant it to be, she gets sent to Manhattan to serve as a full-time companion to the eccentric Edith Fox. Edith is glamorous and mysterious; nothing like Lucy expected...there's one other thing about her that makes her unlike anyone Lucy has ever met...she thinks someone is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RABLanagan, Margo.
Summary: On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2012
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Rabb, Margo
Summary: When she falls for a boy who moves to California without any warning, sixteen-year-old Eva and her best friend, Annie, set off on a road trip to the West Coast to see him again, confronting the complex truth about love along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Rabb 2015Palatini, Margie.
Summary: After many unsuccessful attempts to control his unruly hair one morning, Oliver and his family think that they have solved the problem--until he gets to school and finds that it is school picture day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E PALPalatini, Margie.
Summary: Stewart's loud, obnoxious sweet tooth constantly gets him into trouble, until Stewart uses a healthy diet to take control of the situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALPalatini, Margie.
Summary: Three billy goats, unable to cross a bridge because they cannot pay the toll, form a car pool with The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack of beanstalk fame to get past the rude Troll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALPreus, Margi
Summary: "Lily the sailboat is small but sturdy, in a harbor full of enormous cargo ships, speedy fishing vessels, and bossy tugboats...Out on the lake, the tall ships are coming! To pass from the harbor to the lake, Lily must blow her horn and ask the lift bridgeto rise...Finally, Lily slips under just before the bridge goes down, her sails fluttering with excitement as she spies the majestic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: In 1792, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, a squirrel, eager for adventure, stows away in the canoe of a group of voyageurs, unaware of what they are traveling so far to trade. Includes pronunciation guide, historical notes, and a recipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2020
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Summary: In Tag's world, children are disappearing. "Youngers" who venture Outside are windswept--vanishing in the swirling snow--Tag's sisters among them. Many have tried to find the lost children. All have failed. With their dubious skills, the fairytales, a possibly magic ribbon, and an unwillingness to accept "that's impossible," an unlikely crew of Youngers join forces to rescue their windswept...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022