Summary: Miss Phryne Fisher is a lady detective from Melbourne with a fabulous sense of fun and a flair for solving crimes.In a country reemerging from the shadow of World War I, Phryne takes life in her stride, and murder too. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson works alongside her, although she often outraces him to the crime scene. Season three includes eight all new episodes of the glamorous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MIS NOT RATEDSummary: When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WICSummary: Following the disappearance and murder of teenager Rosie Larsen, detectives search for suspects and try to solve the mystery of Rosie's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KILSummary: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI BLASummary: The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in short horror fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Andy Davidson, Tananarive Due, Gemma Files, Jeffrey Ford, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Angela Slatter, and others. For more than four decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: Following a shocking murder, the lives of the police, suspects and victim's family are intricately woven together in this 'spellbinding' (TV Guide) series. This engrossing series has earned huge acclaim, as well as a Golden Globe nomination and multiple Emmy nominations in its first season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: "Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power. When a deal for Laila to acquire a piece of caul falls through, she is heartbroken, but when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JERPeppins, Brianna
Summary: "Avi LeBeau juggles navigating her first year at a Historically Black Boarding School with the revelation that her older sister Belle is in an abusive romantic relationship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PEPPeppins, Brianna
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Novah feels like her life has been put on hold, taking care of her four younger siblings while her older sister Ariana gets to play volleyball and hang out--but when their parents are killed in a car crash Ariana and Novah will have to learn to cooperate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PEPDue, Tananarive
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUEPerkins, Stephanie
Summary: "Hawaii-born Makani Young's new life in Nebraska is thrown into chaos when a serial killer begins to target her fellow high school students"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PERRue, Nancy
Summary: "Tara had always imagined her happily ever after. But her fiancés secrets are changing this story into one she doesn't even recognize. Tara Faulkner and Seth Grissom grew up next door to each other in Savannah's historic district. Their parents are bestfriends. They finish each other's sentences all the time. Their fairytale wedding is a foregone conclusion...until Tara discovers another side...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RUESie, James
Summary: "Two boys are starting over at a new high school. Jules is still figuring out what it means to be gay and just how out he wants to be. Jack is reeling from a fall-out with his best friend and isn't ready to let anyone else in just yet. When Jules and Jack meet, the sparks are undeniable. But when a video linking Jack to a pair of popular trans vloggers is leaked to the school, the revelations...
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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 SIEMacDonald, Suse.
Summary: Follow the leader and count the fish that live beneath the sea, then turn the book upside-down and count back down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2007
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE MACSie, James.
Summary: "Recent high school graduate and aspiring artist Walter Stahl lives with his ailing father in the dregs of Las Vegas, their lives overshadowed by the disappearance of Walter's mother, who drove off when he was five and never returned. Although Walter has never so much as seen a photograph of his mother, it doesn't stop him from keeping an eye out for her in the groups of tourists he caters to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIEFirkins, Jacqueline
Summary: "Harper works in her mom's wedding shop, altering dresses for petulant and picky brides who are more focused on hemlines than love. After years of watching squabbles break out over wedding plans, Harper thinks romance is a marketing tool. Nothing more. Her best friend Theo is her opposite. One date and he's already dreaming of happily-ever-afters. He also plays the accordion, makes chain mail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FIRPerkins, Mitali
Summary: When María, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, María must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE PERPerkins, Stephanie.
Summary: When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERPerkins, Emily
Summary: Dorothy Forrest, immersed in the sensory world around her, seemingly floats through life and deals with falling in love, early marriage, motherhood and revels in the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everthing she has worked for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerkins, Mitali
Summary: Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERSummary: During the Ming Dynasty, a Buddhis abbot charged with protecting the sacred scroll of Tripitaka prepares to name his successor. An aristocrat and a general arrive at his secluded mountaintop monastery promising to help in his search but are scheming to secure the scroll for themselves. As they set about recommending corrupt successors, rival bands of martial artists lie in wait to steal the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAISummary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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Summary: Scorned by his new dog friends because he never learned to dig, Sam suddenly discovers his inherent dog talent and turns the countryside into a series of ruts and holes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1967