Filter By Subjects
Chanel, Coco 1883-1971 Fiction Female friendship Fiction Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Paris (France) History 1870-1940 Fiction Reporters and reporting Fiction Richmond (Va.) Fiction Women France Social conditions 20th century FictionFilter By Series
Avenue Grimnir 2 Milo Weaver 4 Stevens & Windermere 5 Stevens and Windermere 5 Willie Black 6Filter By Subjects
Chanel, Coco 1883-1971 Fiction Female friendship Fiction Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Paris (France) History 1870-1940 Fiction Reporters and reporting Fiction Richmond (Va.) Fiction Women France Social conditions 20th century FictionFilter By Series
Avenue Grimnir 2 Milo Weaver 4 Stevens & Windermere 5 Stevens and Windermere 5 Willie Black 6Summary: A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children. But complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids. The two competing dads suddenly find themselves in a heated competition for affection. One brings home a dog; the other brings home a pony. And this war only...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAD RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DaCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Daddy's 2016Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
Summary: Illustrations and simple text reveal that, even when a pesky rabbit annoys his bear friend with too many questions, their friendship remains strong.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEESeeger, Laura Vaccaro.
Summary: Bear has a bucket stuck on his head, but luckily, Dog has a plan. It's not a perfect plan, but in this and two other stories, imperfect plans still work out when good friends help each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE SEESeeger, Laura Vaccaro
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text celebrate the many shades of blue seen during the relationship of a boy and his dog as the boy grows from a baby to an adult.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VACSeeger, Laura Vaccaro.
Summary: What if a boy found a beach ball and kicked it into the ocean? What if two seals found it and began to play? What if a third seal appeared on the beach looking for a friend? Enjoy this visit to the beach and the chance to guess what happens when different choices are made.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Seeger 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEEOden, Scott
Summary: "To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind--the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days. Drawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODESeeger, Laura Vaccaro.
Summary: Three easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between Dog and Bear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEESeeger, Laura Vaccaro.
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Steinhauer, Olen
Summary: "Reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver thought he had finally put 'Tourists' - CIA-trained assassins - to bed. A decade later, Milo is hiding out in Western Sahara when a young CIA analyst arrives to question him about a series of suspicious deaths and terrorist chatter linked to him. Their conversation is soon interrupted by a new breed of Tourists intent on killing them both, forcing them to run....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESteinhauer, Olen.
Summary: Milo Weaver has retired from his days as an undercover agent for the CIA, but new details arise from his old cases that bring him back to his investigations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RBA 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION STESeeger, Laura Vaccaro
Summary: "A novelty picture book exploring the many forms fear can take and the importance of overcoming it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEESeeger, Laura Vaccaro.
Summary: A little bull discovers that he has been a big bully.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SEEKing, Owen
Summary: It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire--to find where her brother went after...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKing, Owen.
Summary: A young man comes to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film, in particular with his relationships with family, friends, lovers, and adversaries.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINNicholls, Owen
Summary: "Ellie had the quizzical eyebrows of Broadcast News-era Holly Hunter and the neon-red hair of Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. At least, that's what caught Nick's attention when he met her on the night of 2008's historic election. A cinema devotee and lover of great love stories, Nick always fancied himself the Tom Hanks of his own romantic comedy, and when sparks flew...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICOwen, Howard
Summary: When a twin-engine Beechcraft crashes into one of Richmond's watering holes and turns happy hour into Hell, theories run rampant. Was it terrorists who, for some reason, decided to vent their spleens on unsuspecting Richmond? Was it a statement by homegrown killers less-than-thrilled that the city still, in the 21st century, chooses to honor Confederate leaders on its most prominent avenue? ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWEOwen, Howard
Summary: Willie Black is a newspaper reporter with a marginal personal history. When a coed at the local university his daughter attends is murdered, the alleged killer is arrested within days. Everyone but Willie thinks the case is closed and he sets out to dig out the truth or die trying.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWEOwen, Lauren
Summary: "Lauren Owen's thrilling first novel introduces an utterly beguiling world. London, 1893: James Norbury is a shy would-be poet, newly down from Oxford and confounded by the sinister, labyrinthine city at his doorstep. Taking up lodging with a dissolute young aristocrat, he is introduced to the drawing rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. On the cusp of achieving a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWESheers, Owen
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEWilson, Owen
Summary: Two rival turkeys team up and travel back in time to prevent turkeys from becoming a Thanksgiving dinner tradition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FREOden, Scott
Summary: "A Gathering of Ravens was called "satisfying...complex...and a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now, Scott Oden continues the saga of Grimnir in this new epic fantasy novel, Twilight of the Gods. In A Gathering of Ravens, he fought for vengeance. Now, Grimnir is back to fight for his survival. It is the year of Our Lord 1218 and in the land of the Raven-Geats, the Old...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODEEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: "Pamela Binnings Ewen's newest novel reveals the story of Émilienne, once the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris during the Belle Époque, the era of peaceful years just before World War I. As a girl, Émilienne fights her way through poverty in Montmartre, drawn to the lights of Paris below. Soon, she stars at the Folies Bergère, mistress of kings and princes, known as the most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWEEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Epoque Paris, Emilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Emilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Emilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction EwenEgerton, Owen.
Summary: A former rock star and his pregnant girlfriend, a television actor, and a hermit crab starting a cross-country journey all deal with the knowledge that the world is about to end.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2013