Summary: What if you entered a world full of magic and mystery but couldn't get back home? When Sybil, her kid sister Alex, and two cousins discover a magical book in the family manor, it opens a hidden door into the forest of Keoherus. As the powerful Warriors Four, the girls must now locate secret temples and solve intricate puzzles to gather crystals that will allow them to control time. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUASummary: While staying at his grandparents' mysterious mansion, friends Scott and Emily must team up with an eccentric wizard and an adorable talking creature named Rufus in order to defeat an evil sorceress and save Rufus' magical home world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADVSummary: In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INVSpurrier, Simon
Summary: "One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain. Lord Daniel's absence triggers a series of crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Vertigo, DC Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DREBraun, Sebastien
Summary: Ed the mouse will not sleep in his own bed, until eventually his exasperated and tired parents find a way to keep him from joining them in the middle of the night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRABraun, Sebastien
Summary: "Some trains may think fast is best, but only slow and steady Chug can save the day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Childrens Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC BRABraun, Sebastien
Summary: Raj and his dad plan a list of all the things they will do during their day together, but when his dad forgets his wallet at home, Raj is sure their day will be ruined, until they find they can still have fun by using their imaginations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2019
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Summary: "Raj and his dad are going camping. They've packed everything they need, and Raj knows they are going to have an amazing time. Once they get there, however, they find they have to contend with wind, rain, and a family of very noisy bears"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRAJaprisot, Sebastien
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAPSummary: Sue works in a library; her son Daniel eats chips and listens to Metallica. When his father and stepmother cancel his summer plans to visit them in Florida at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies, and pursue their passions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAYSummary: CIA agent Mason 'Mace' Brown joins forces with a rival German agent, a cutting-edge computer specialist and a Colombian psychologist when a top-secret weapon falls into the hands of a group of mercenaries. Together, the four women embark on a breakneck mission to save the world while staying one step ahead of a mysterious figure who's tracking their every move.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THRSummary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "A novel about an aspiring screenplay writer--full of script ideas but unable to follow through on any of them--who becomes entangled with a Bosnian woman and her violently jealous husband"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Contents: Islands -- The life and work of Alphonse Kauders -- The Sorge spy ring -- The accordion -- Exchange of pleasant words -- A coin -- Blind Josef Pronek & dead souls -- Imitation of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMSummary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAAHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: The murder of Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch triggers ethnic and political tensions in early twentieth-century Chicago, an event that is investigated a century later by a young writer from Eastern Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMSeton, Anya.
Summary: This saga travels across oceans and continents to Iceland, Greenland, and North America during the time in history when Anglo-Saxons battled Vikings and the Norsemen discovered America. The marked contrasts between powerful royalty, landless peasants, Viking warriors and noble knights are expertly brought to life in this gripping tale of the French prince named Rumon. Shipwrecked off the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETStark-Nemon, Barbara
Summary: Abbie Rose Stone's acquired wisdom runs deep, and so do her scars. She has successfully navigated the shoals of a long marriage, infertility, challenging children, and a career. Now it's her turn to realize her dream: producing hard apple cider along the northern shores of Lake Michigan that she loves. She manages to resist new versions of the old pull of family dynamics that threaten to derail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press, a division of SparkPoint Sudio, LLC. 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P STAHabila, Helon
Summary: Reluctantly leaving America when his wife is given a prestigious fellowship in Berlin, a Nigerian grad student struggles with the suffering of the African refugees and immigrants he encounters in his new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABMonk, Devon.
Summary: "Allison Beckstrom knows better than most that when magic's involved, nothing is free. She's had to pay its price of migraines and forgetfulness while working as a Hound, tracing illegal spells back to their casters. And even though magic has stolen her recent memory--including her history with the man she supposedly fell in love with--Allie isn't about to give up on Hounding or the city she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc/New American Library 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONSefton, Maggie.
Summary: When an acquaintance turns up murdered outside the intended classroom space for her yarn shop, Kelly Flynn unravels a long list of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEFDeaon, Natashia
Summary: "Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in bya caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEONuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022