Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MYSSummary: A young pig depends on a rat, a spider, and a little girl to prove that, even as a runt, he's still special. As his days become numbered, it will take a miracle to save his life. Special features include: additional scenes, bloopers, commentary, music videos, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY CHABerg, Brook.
Summary: Young Marion, who wants to be a librarian when she grows up, learns how to treat library books with respect.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: UpstartBooks 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BERBrook, Allison
Summary: Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut. Then she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the local library-- which comes complete with its own ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by retired homicide detective Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M BROBrook, Kate
Summary: "An irresistible, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family--and love--find you in the most unexpected places"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROWilliams, Leah
Summary: "Collects X-Factor (2020) #6-10. The fallout from X OF SWORDS continues! A dark force is manipulating the lives of X-Factor, and now Siryn is dead! Again. And again. And again - What's going on? X-Factor must follow the screams to unravel a mystery and find out the truth! Plus: A dark force is manipulating the team just as a striking revelation comes to light. Who's that knocking? Could the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC X-FACrook, Elizabeth
Summary: Gives a fictional account of the marriage of Sam Houston to Eliza Allen in 1829 and the unhappiness that followed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROSummary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMIBrook, Allison
Summary: "Daphne Marriott strolls into Clover Ridge and informs librarian Carrie Singleton that she's a psychic. But had she foreseen what fate awaited her, Daphne would have steered clear of the quaint Connecticut town. Evelyn, the library ghost, tells Carrie that there's more to Daphne than she lets on.The mysterious woman grew up in Clover Ridge with her no-good dad, who apparently met his end at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROBrook, Rhidian.
Summary: Assigned to oversee the reconstruction of Hamburg in the tumultuous year following World War II, Colonel Lewis Morgan grieves the loss of his son while living with his family in the home of a German widower, an arrangement that forces both families to confront their passions and true selves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrom
Summary: "A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom. Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrom
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Nick would be lying dead in a Brooklyn park--murdered by drug dealers--had Peter not sprung out of the trees to save him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist swirling around the bay. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, nowhere in New York City is safe for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRORook, Sebastian.
Summary: Jack, a London street urchin, and Ben, the son of an explorer, join forces to save themselves and London from a plague of vampires.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Besson, Luc.
Summary: In search of a stolen treasure and his missing grandfather, ten-year-old Arthur travels to the land of the Minimoys, a tribe of tiny people whom he must save from destruction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BessoJestin, Victor
Summary: After witnessing the suicide of a popular boy on a playground at night and doing nothing to stop him, a panicked teenager drags the body to the beach and buries it, becoming trapped in a guilt spiral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JESWoolley, Persia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poseidon Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOBesson, Luc.
Summary: In order to find his grandfather's lost treasure and save the Minimoys, Arthur and his companions, including Princess Selinia, travel into the forbidden city ruled by Maltazard the Cursed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BessoBrock, Amber.
Summary: Set in the glamorous 1920s, this is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus. Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist shrouds his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Brock, Kimberly
Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCrook, Elizabeth.
Summary: On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. Before it was over, sixteen people had been killed and thirty-two wounded. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. Monday, Monday follows three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROBrock, Amber
Summary: Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree, and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCrook, Jeff.
Summary: Introduces Memphis crime scene photographer Jackie Lyons, whose post-divorce efforts to rebuild her life are complicated by her ability to see ghosts who offer insight into a local serial killer case.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012