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(Fictitious character) Finn, Huckleberry Fiction African American teenagers Fiction Anxiety Fiction Fathers Death Fiction FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Humorous stories, American Police misconduct United States Fiction Short stories, American Student movements Fiction United StatesMarr, Melissa
Summary: "In near-future New Orleans, draugar, again-walkers, are faster and stronger than most humans, but not venomous until they are a century old. Until then, they shamble and bite. Since not everyone wants to see their relatives end up that way, Genevieve Crowe makes her living beheading the dead. But now, her magic's gone sideways, and the only person strong enough to help her is the one man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARMarks, Janae
Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MARDarke, Minnie
Summary: "When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. To Justine, anyway. Especially when she learns Nick is an astrological devotee, whose decisions are guided by the stars, and more specifically, by the horoscopes in his favorite magazine. The same magazine...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DARPark, Barbara
Summary: Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2020
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Summary: Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years-ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORJones, Stephen Mack
Summary: Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined the Detroit police only to be drummed out of the force by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JONPark, Barbara
Summary: When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2019
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Summary: Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. And in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan roams, traveling between jobs building tract homes across the West. Following a shocking workplace accident in Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads towards the ocean.On his way he passes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOJClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: When we last saw Nancy Harmon, tragedy had struck her family as she suffered through the heartbreak of her first marriage, the ghastly deaths of her two children, hostile media coverage, and the harsh criminal charges against her. Nancy was forced to relocate across the country, change her name and appearance, anything that could be used to identify her controversial past. Years later, after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiancé, famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III, fifteen years ago. And Casey claims, has always claimed, she's innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living 'under suspicion.' She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can't get a job. Even her own mother treats her like she's guilty. Her story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CLAClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: Navigating traumatic memories of an assault in college, a journalist researching the #MeToo movement discovers that her attacker is on the cusp of a merger that will render him a billionaire
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Five years ago, New Yorkers Amanda Pierce and Jeffrey Hunter had plans for a luxurious destination wedding at the Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Florida. The ceremony was planned for Saturday afternoon, to be followed by an impressive reception. But then Amanda goes missing without a trace before the celebrations can begin. Now, five years later, Laurie needs a new case to feature for Under...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Clark 2015Elsberg, Marc
Summary: One night, the lights go out across Europe. The electrical grids collapse on an epic scale and unleash a devastating chaos in the total blackout. And unbeknownst to the general population, nuclear reactors are starting to overheat. When a former hacker and activist who knows a thing or two about infiltrating networks starts investigating the cause of this disaster, he soon becomes a prime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ELSCussler, Dirk
Summary: In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Cussler 2021Cameron, Marc
Summary: "Father Pat West, S.J., was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. As young men, they worked together at the CIA, but their lives diverged when West felt the call to the priesthood. Decades later, Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMCameron, Marc
Summary: 1985. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer--invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLACameron, Marc
Summary: Cuba and the United States are in talks to normalize relations, something the old guard on the Communist-controlled island has vowed to stop--by any means necessary. Zayda de la Guardia, a rogue general in the Cuban security services, has gotten his hands on a nuclear weapon left over from the Cold War. He plans to launch it on Miami, an attack that could kill millions. There's just one thing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CAMClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancee, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-August wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M CLALawrence, Mark
Summary: "The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors ... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAWOshiro, Mark
Summary: Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals their own school. New rules. Random locker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OSHTwain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWIArrows, Mark
Summary: Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span across massive ice-wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within them. The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface, but that doesn't mean it's safe... Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ARRFrost, Mark
Summary: "Will West and his friends enter the alternate universe of the Never in order to rescue Will's friend and mentor Dave from the dangerous and deadly creatures from beyond"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015