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Summary: "A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't alloweda goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OUTSveistrup, Soren
Summary: "On the first Tuesday in October, Rosa Hartung is returning to her job as minister for social affairs following a year's leave of absence--granted after the dramatic disappearance of her twelve-year-old daughter. Linus Bekker, a mentally ill young man, confessed to her killing, but is unable to remember where he buried the various parts of her dismembered corpse, leaving Rosa with no choice but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SVESures, Ben
Summary: "A children's storybook about a young Ojibway boy, Leo, and his family-centred, traditional upbringing on Serpent River First Nation. Leo's life turns to darkness when forced to attend residential school. Back home for Christmas, Leo uses inspiration from an Ojibway childhood game to remain with his loving family."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SURSuen, Anastasia.
Summary: A family helps build their new house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Suen 2003Suen, Anastasia
Summary: When Josh finds a nest of blue snakes and decides to bring one into school for science class, his friend Andy is not sure this is a good idea--when the snake gets loose in the school hallway, Andy and the reader have to choose how the incident will end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE SUESuen, Anastasia.
Summary: Vanessa is the new girl in class, and Sara is torn between sympathy, because she knows what being teased is like, and a desire to stay with the "in" crowd led by Courtney, chief bully, and the reader is invited to choose between three possible choices for Sara to make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC UPSuen, Anastasia.
Summary: A family helps build their new house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SUERuge, Eugen
Summary: An enthralling story of an East German family through the long years of communism and its aftermath, this novel flows both back and forth in time, creating a panoramic view of a family's saga and a country that has vanished into memory and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUGSummary: Borgen explores the insular world of high-stakes Danish politics and the press corps that covers it in instantaneous, relentless news cycles. Birgitte Nyborg, the idealistic head of the moderate party, becomes prime minister of Denmark through a political fluke and has to quickly learn the ways of power. She's an altruistic public servant in an old boys' club and must master the art of the deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORLandsman, Keren
Summary: Throughout human history there have always been sorcerers, once idolised and now exploited for their powers. In Israel, the Sons of Simeon, a group of religious extremists, persecute sorcerers while the government turns a blind eye. After a march for equal rights ends in brutal murder, empath, moodifier and reluctant waiter Reed becomes the next target. While his sorcerous and normie friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANSyken, Bill.
Summary: "After losing his starting position as a college quarterback to a shoulder injury, Nick Gallow has remade himself as a punter. Now in his fifth year in the pros with the Philadelphia Sentinels, Nick spends most of his time on the sidelines. He no longer makes winning plays, and when the team visits a hospital, the sick kids would rather talk to the players they've actually heard of. But Nick is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKRim, Sujean
Summary: "Chee-Kee, a young panda, moves with his parents to a new land of opportunity. Just when he's resigned to never fit in, Chee-Kee finds a way to use his own experience and ingenuity to save the day and show that he's one of a kind in all the best ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMSteen, Sandra.
Summary: While sitting inside their car, two children enjoy the soapy sights and watery sounds of the car wash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STESuarez, Daniel
Summary: "On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-- and his transformation begins. In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution--preying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUAGeetanjali Shree
Summary: "WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family-especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch-in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEECall number: FIC GIT
Major, Seven
Summary: ""Illusions" blurs the line between fiction and reality as the illegitimate child of an influential mafia member shares her life and perspective of history over the span of fifty years. A life defined by murder, identity theft, CIA assassins, sex, drug-dealers, gun-runners, and a young adult who would travel the East Coast--running away from her past while searching to belong in a life that was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Major 2016Palumbo, Suzan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANSuarez, Daniel
Summary: "In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid-kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUASummary: In 1837, a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Queen Victoria, navigates the scandal, corruption, and political intrigues of the Court, and soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victioria 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 1Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIC NOT RATEDZailckas, Koren
Summary: Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors--young children, marriage, money--and she's settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAIDuran, Aaron
Summary: "From a young age, Althalia knew she would someday be the last of her kind--a bruja, tasked with keeping the power and stories of the ancient ways from fading fully into history. Never alone, Althalia works in a paranormal museum with her friends, a real-life Chupacabra and a were-coyote, while living with and caring for her beloved abuela. Through these powerful connections, her skills and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 DURZailckas, Koren.
Summary: Josephine Hurst has her family under control: two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family. When her oldest daughter, Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAIQueen, Ellery
Summary: A missing will and an extra corpse buried with an elderly Greek art dealer and collector bring Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Queen to investigate what may turn out to have been murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014