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Summary: Tabitha Knight investigates the sudden death of a chef at a cooking school who poured himself a glass of wine from a rare vintage bottle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: While staying in post-World War II Paris with her grandfather, Tabitha Knight becomes friends with her neighbor and fellow American, Julia Child, and must clear both their names when a woman they both knew is murdered with a knife from Julia's kitchen and a note from Tabitha in her pocket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAMSummary: A string of grisly murders is traced back to the sinister, sensuous Countess, an infamous resident of the stylish Hotel Cortez in downtown Los Angeles. It is a visually stunning, visceral feast. Come explore the hidden corridors of this fiendishly entertaining show with accommodating extras.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Based on the short story by Ernest J. Gaines. In rural Louisiana in the 1940's a young black boy journeys with his mother and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SKYDurbin, William
Summary: Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DURLasky, Kathryn.
Summary: A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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Summary: In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEWhite, Ellen Emerson.
Summary: An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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Summary: William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DENDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DENDurbin, William
Summary: In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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Summary: A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MYELevine, Ellen.
Summary: In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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Summary: James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1998
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Summary: Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001