Contents: Reginald on house parties / Saki -- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRESummary: "In 1903, in Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures."-- IMDb
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Eager, Edward.
Summary: When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGEager, Edward.
Summary: Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction EagerEager, Edward.
Summary: On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGEager, Edward.
Summary: Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGEager, Edward.
Summary: While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGElgar, Emily
Summary: A small town's beloved family. A shocking, senseless crime--and the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace--smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses--adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELGSummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESEager, Edward.
Summary: Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGEager, Edward.
Summary: A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules and tame its magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Eagar, Lindsay
Summary: When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven year old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief. But she is forced out of her mourning when she's kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of crimes stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. As Fidelia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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Summary: Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEREager, Edward.
Summary: James, Laura, and Deborah along with their friends Kip, Lydia, and Gordy relate their experiences when the unpredictable old wishing well in the backyard continues to involve them in a variety of magical adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIElgar, Emily
Summary: "When young, beautiful Cassie Jensen arrives at the intensive care ward of St. Catherine's hospital after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while out walking her dog, chief nurse Alice Marlowe thinks she looks familiar. She starts obsessively digging deeper into Cassie's relationships, only to discover a secret that her patient has been keeping from everyone, including her devoted husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELGEagar, Lindsay
Summary: At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGEagar, Lindsay
Summary: On the surface, Rory is the underdog--a scholarship kid, teased for her weight, but we soon find out that she will go to any length to secure the lead role in her school's senior musical. She is charming, conniving, and brutally ambitious.You will find yourself rooting for her, while simultaneously dreading what she might do!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC EAGEagar, Lindsay
Summary: "Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run -- until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC EAGCantero, Edgar
Summary: "The summer of 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cantero 2017Cantero, Edgar
Summary: "When twentysomething A., the European relative of the Wells family, inherits a beautiful yet eerie estate set deep in the woods of Point Bless, Virginia, it comes as a surprise to everyone--including A. himself. After all, he never knew he had a 'second cousin, twice removed' in America, much less that his eccentric relative had recently committed suicide by jumping out of the third floor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCamacho, Edgar
Summary: Rolando's job was crushing his soul... and then it crushed his hand. Now he can barely get out of the house, marathoning TV and struggling to find meaning. Nera is a restless spirit who loves to taste everything life can offer, but sleeps in a broken-down food truck and can't see a way to make her dreams come true. When their paths cross at a raucous rock show, the magical night seems to last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions an imprint of IDW Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 CAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CAMHoem, Edvard
Summary: "The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna--an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOERautbord, Sugar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Books 1987