Voris, Jenna
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who's as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The same Mickenlee who mysteriously backed out of the limelight at the height of their careers, never to be heard from again. Now Decklee's televised funeral marks the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC VORJurjevics, Juris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Vilas, Manuel
Summary: "A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicleof his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILFaris, Stephanie
Summary: Gabby's father has a podcast called Ghost Search, and this time they are investigating a haunted bookstore--ten-year-old Gabby does not believe in ghosts and always tries to debunk the hauntings, but this time she is not so sure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARSwarup, Vikas.
Summary: There's a caste system - even in murder. Viky Rai, notorious son of a prominent Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy Delhi restaurant. Thanks to his mother pulling a few strings, he gets off scot-free. At a lavish society party to celebrate his acquittal he is himself murdered. Who did it? The Bollywood actress with a guilty secret; the American who came to India to marry his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M SWAMirvis, Tova.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRFisher, Vardis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aeonian Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISKizis, Deanna
Summary: Penelope the Pug accompanies Lady Diggleton to Windsor Castle, but when the Queen's diamond ring goes missing and the snooty dog Duchess stands accused, Penelope finds a way to prove her innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KIZSirls, William
Summary: When a lightning bolt shatters a decorative cross in the yard of a church in a small town in Michigan, a carpenter shows up to repair it. But the carpenter is no ordinary man, as the church pastor, his odd family, and local medical staff treating his adoptive grandchild for leukemia find out in a series of miraculous events that change them dramatically.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIRO'Neal, Eilis.
Summary: Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia's led a privileged life at court. But everything changes when it's revealed, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection. Cast out with little more than the clothes on her back, the girl now called Sinda must leave behind the city of Vivaskari,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EgmontUSA 2011
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Summary: Sabata: Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2005
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Summary: A visit to a haunted zoo for her father's ghost hunting podcasts leads Gabby to uncover discrepancies in its history, but sharing her findings on the podcast may have serious consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: Piper Morgan and her mom have moved and her mother's new job will be the Big Top Circus. Piper can't wait the meet the Little Explorers, the other kids who travel with the show. She even gets asked to help get the audience on their feet by dancing along! But during her grand debut, things don't go as planned and she has to prove to everyone that she belongs in the spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J PM 1Kizis, Deanna
Summary: "In this laugh-out-loud book that begs readers to break the rules, silliness and hilarity reign supreme! Join along for zany antics, silly sounds, and endless fun in this breaks-the-fourth-wall book that will have readers coming back time and time again--regardless of what the title says"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIZStrugatsky, Boris.
Summary: From the Russian masters of sci-fi comes The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, a hilarious spoof on the classic country-house murder mystery. When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn't counted on the other vacationers, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Faris, Stephanie
Summary: While at a reportedly haunted castle in Maine with her father and the ghost-hunting crew for his podcast, skeptical Gabby debunks reports of a mysterious "lady in white," but when she hears a strange phone ringing, she discovers there are some things even she cannot explain. Includes chapter endnotes with background information, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARKizis, Deanna
Summary: In a park of Regency-era London, Penelope, a little pug, gets separated from her Lady and is found by Lady Diggleton, so Penelope does her best to mind her manners in order to stay with her new Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenage, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEFaris, Stephanie
Summary: Gabby's father is a paranormal investigator with a podcast, but ten-year-old Gabby does not believe in ghosts, and is determined to prove there is no ghost haunting the Brookhaven Inn in Massachusetts where they are filming--except she could be wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARChamblain, Joris
Summary: Cici dreams of being a novelist. Her favorite subject: people, especially adults. She's been watching them and taking notes. Everybody has one special secret, Cici figures, and if you want to write about people, you need to understand what's hiding inside them. But now she's discovered something truly strange: an old man who disappears into the forest every Sunday with huge pots of paint in all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second Books 2017
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Summary: Josie Marcus is enjoying her new assignment, sampling the local St. Louis cuisine for a City Eats Food tour, when while at the restaurant of her friend Tillie someone is poisoned, and after Tillie is arrested she begs Josie to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEViets, Elaine
Summary: Angela Richman returns to investigate what looks like a simple case: spurned trophy wife murders elderly husband for the money. But the evidence Richman uncovers doesn't quite fit that theory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VIEElba, Idris
Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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Summary: Tired of living life on the lam, Helen Hawthorne goes back to St. Louis to clear her name of alimony evasion so she can finally marry the man she loves. But she still has to pay the bills, even if it means working at a consignment shop where the designer duds are to die for--literally. Secondhand clothes. First-degree murder. At Snapdragon, the high-end designer consignment shop, Helen is at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian/New American Library 2010