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Brothers and sisters Denmark Fiction Families Fiction Great Britain History 14th century Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction Jutland (Denmark) Fiction Knights and knighthood England Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Norway Fiction Social isolation Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Denmark FictionSummary: Three American women working in Rome, Italy, share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage, each experiencing a few bumps in their journeys to romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRZoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner.
Summary: Pooh is discouraged when everyone but him gets mail in their mailbox.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1999
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE DISPetterson, Per
Summary: Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Petterson 2010Petterson, Per
Summary: "[A] tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim was by Tommy's side through it all. But one winter night, a chance event on a frozen lake forever changes the balance of their friendship. Now, Jim fishes alone on a bridge as Tommy drives by in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Petterson 2015Petterson, Per
Summary: In Danish Jutland before the Nazi invasion, a young girl dreams of embarking on a great journey to Siberia, while her brother instead dreams of the warmer climate of Morocco.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETPetterson, Per
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPetterson, Per
Summary: Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his life forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETPetterson, Per
Summary: Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETPetterson, Per
Summary: An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETGreenland, Shannon
Summary: Stranger Things meets The Goonies in this suspenseful yet heartwarming adventure story about a group of friends who set out to find a crashed meteor, but find mystery and danger instead as their close relationships begin to fracture. Annie, Beans, Rocky, and Fynn are the Scouts, best friends who do everything together. It's 1985, and the summer before seventh grade is just beginning. The Scouts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GREGuterson, Ben
Summary: Elizabeth, eleven, spends Christmas break at Winterhouse hotel under strange circumstances, where she discovers that she has magic, and her love of puzzles helps her solve a mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUTMeyerson, Amy
Summary: While trying to harness her extraordinary gift--the ability to write stories that make others fall in love--Alice is summoned to the estate of the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library where she is faced with her most challenging assignment yet, one that forces her to confront her own guarded heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYPetterson, Per
Summary: Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Back then, Tommy and his sister were abandoned by their mother and later by their abusive father, and Jim, who lived alone with his religious mother, went to high school and became a socialist. Then one winter, Jim started to doubt whether he was deserving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETPetterson, Per
Summary: Unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, Arvid Jansen, now divorced and living dangerously, is forced to come to terms with the fact that someone still needs him when his daughter reaches out to him for help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPetterson, Per
Summary: A novel on a brother and sister in Denmark who live on a farm. Both dream of adventure--she wants to see Siberia, he Morocco--but only he succeeds, forced to flee his home by World War II. By a Norwegian writer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETWesterson, Jeri
Summary: "A quest to find the ancient sword Excalibur quickly turns into a hunt for a determined killer for Crispin Guest. London, 1396. A trip to the swordsmith shop for Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, and his apprentice Jack Tucker takes an unexpected turn when Crispin crosses paths with Carantok Teague, a Cornish treasure hunter. Carantok has a map he is convinced will lead him to the sword of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESMeyerson, Amy
Summary: "The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confront old resentments and betrayals, when their mysterious, eccentric matriarch, Helen, passes away. But their lives are about to change when they find a secret inheritance hidden among her possessions--the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYWesterson, Jeri.
Summary: Witnessing the apparent suicide of a man who fell from the London Bridge, Crispin Guest investigates suspicions that the victim was actually murdered and discovers links to a powerful religious artifact before his efforts are complicated by the arrival of his friend, Geoffrey Chaucer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESMeyerson, Amy
Summary: Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. On Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later she receives news that Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy-- and one final scavenger...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meyerson 2018Schine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHPettersen, Siri
Summary: Separated and struggling to survive in two different worlds, Hirka and Rime vow to defeat the ancient evil that offers immortality at a dangerous price.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETWesterson, Jeri.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESJoseph, Paterson
Summary: "A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century London and inspired by a true story. "I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more." It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023