Donoghue, Emma
Summary: Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DONSummary: Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broad Green Pictures 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED RCochrun, Alison
Summary: A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. After graduation, they went ten years without speaking. Now in their thirties, Logan and Rosemary find they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperbacks 2024
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Summary: A young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846 describes how her family and others became victims of freezing temperatures and starvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROJennings, Maureen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENSummary: After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wild 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIL RATED RSummary: In the late 19th century, Toronto city police Detective William Murdoch takes a new, more scientific approach to murder investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MurdochSummary: "With helpful advice and honest recommendations from Frommer's expert authors, you'll walk among the ancient ruins of Pompeii, float along the canals of Venice, appreciate Renaissance masterworks in Florence, explore off-the-beaten-path Puglia and live la dolce vita in Rome--as well as discover timeless wonders such as the vineyards of Tuscany and cliff-top towns perched along the Amalfi Coast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frommer Media 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, the city's only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRASummary: In Toronto during the 1920s, four female detectives continue to rebel against gender norms by taking on the cases not even the police want to touch. From the wilderness to the world of high society, an underground cabaret to a candy factory, the women navigate their personal and private lives together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRASummary: An elite military unit (SG-1) must flee back to Earth when two members of their team inexplicably disappear into thin air. But they return to a world in which the Stargate--an ancient device which allows them to travel to hundreds of planets--was never discovered, and their own history has been erased. Now they must convince a dubious government and military that the timeline was altered by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM DVD 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STAJalaluddin, Uzma
Summary: "As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays--Maryam to her sister's impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend's wealthy family for the first time--neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they'll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam's life, Saif,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JALSmith, Lauren Lee
Summary: Follows the adventures of female private detectives working in Toronto in the nineteen twenties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRASay, Allen.
Summary: A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott SaySummary: Guru Pitka is an American-born, Indian-raised guru who was taught to become an expert in matters of love. Now, a world famous spiritual advisor, he guides hundreds of followers. A way for Pitka to increase his popularity is by helping to heal the troubled relationship between Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke and his wife, Prudence. Jane Bullard is the owner of the Maple Leafs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVHarrison, Jim
Summary: The farmer's daughter: Sarah is a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. Brown Dog redux: Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. Games of night: A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARToews, Miriam
Summary: Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOELarson, Hope
Summary: "Twelve-year-old twin adventurers Cleopatra and Alexandra Dodge are reunited with their father and realize that two family heirlooms reveal the location of a treasure that is their birthright. When they set sail with Captain Tarboro on the Almira, they know they're heading into danger --the ocean is filled with new and old enemies, including their nemesis, the infamous pirate Felix...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Larson 2017Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSChen, Jiatong
Summary: A young white fox called Dilah returns home to find his mother gravely injured. Before she dies, she tells him about a treasure with the power to make animals human. The clues to its location are contained in a moonstone buried beneath their den. But wicked blue foxes seek the treasure too and Dilah must race to find it first. Along the way, he meets all sorts of other creatures: a friendly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: "Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OPPPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: For Black History Month, Ana & Andrew join a research group at the Community Center. They learn many interesting things about Martin Luther King Jr.! Later, with the help of some other children, they make one of Martin's famous dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021