Russell, Karen
Summary: Presents ten short stories set in the Florida Everglades and starring children who must survive against incredible odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSRussell, Karen
Summary: This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Russell 2011Russell, Karen
Summary: In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979," a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSPryce, Trevor.
Summary: While the Kulipari, the Amphibilands elite fighting group of poisonous frogs, is away, young Darel hopefully assembles a motley crew of friends to fend off an attack by the spell caster called the Spider Queen, and Lord Marmoo, leader of the scorpions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2013
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Summary: For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime. Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic, so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage’s College, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he’s discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested, but instead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALPryce, Trevor
Summary: The fight to protect the Amphibilands rages on in the second book of this action-packed, illustrated series by former football pro Trevor Pryce. The Spider Queen and Lord Marmoo of the scorpions still have their eyes and fangs set on the vulnerable home of the frogs and this time they've got some impressive back-up: the Ghost Bats, Tasmanian Devils and Blue Band Bees. The constant threats from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Sandman Slim has found himself in an unknown land: the far, far edge of the Tenebrae, the desolate home of the lost dead. There, he collides with a caravan of the damned on a mysterious crusade, led by the ruthless Magistrate. Alone and with no idea of of how to get home, he joins the caravan. Meanwhile, the Angels have put a bounty on Slim's head after his attempt to open Heaven caused a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn't come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who's most recently met Death and death's killer a few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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Summary: "What do you do after you've escaped Hell, gone back, uncovered the true nature of God, and then managed to become the new Lucifer? Well, if you're James Stark, you have to figure out how to run Hell while also trying to get back out of it...again. Plus there's the small matter of surviving. Because everyone in Heaven, Hell, and in between wants to be the fastest gun in the universe, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2012
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Summary: "James Stark is back from Hell, trailing more trouble in his wake. To return to L.A., he had to make a deal with the evil power brokers Wormwood--an arrangement that came with a catch. While he may be home, Stark isn't quite himself...because he is only partially alive. There's a time limit on his reanimated body, and unless Stark can find the people targeting Wormwood, he will die again--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: "Sandman Slim investigates Death's death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic. James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth and beyond. Now, he's come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death. Someone has tried to kill Death--ripping the heart right out of him--or rather the body he's inhabiting....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADPechacek, Jared
Summary: "A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passage, a delightfully mysterious and intriguingly weird medieval fantasy unlike anything you've read before. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." -Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Young Geraldine longs to have adventures as thrilling as those in the Book of Tales, the book her papa reads to her and her brother Button at night. More than that, she wants to be brave--a seemingly impossible task in a world where ravens throw black shadows over the earth and wolves prowl barren lands in search of their prey. But Geraldine is a mouse. The weakest of ground things. Why was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAUArden, Katherine
Summary: "The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARDAronofsky, Darren
Summary: "When King Neptune uses the last remaining drops of magic mermaid ink to create creatures designed to put NYC underwater, Eric "Doodles" King calls upon his Coney Island friends, aka Monster Club, and his drawing skills to stop Neptune before it's too late"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AROKaufman, Karin
Summary: "As a new mouse, Geraldine still struggles to be brave and good. And at night, when the Woolkins family gathers to listen to Papa read stories from the Book of Tales, she still tries to understand Very Very Big Hands, the creator of all - including the dreaded wolves of the Barren Land. But will she she ever stop longing to fly like a bird or to stride above the grasses like a fox? Will she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Winter Tree Books] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAUDe Haven, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEHPriebe, Trisha White
Summary: In this delightful sequel to The Glass Castle, The Ruby Moon opens as preparations begin for the upcoming Olympiads. When Avery learns that a male runner is needed for an important race, she volunteers so she can get close to the action. . .but can she hide her own identity? One slip-up could mean a trip to the dungeon--or worse. Much is at stake while the kingdom enjoys the greatest games on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PRIArden, Katherine
Summary: "In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended for his young daughter. Uncertain of its meaning, Pytor hides the gift away and Vasya grows up a wild, willful girl, to the chagrin of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARDPike, Signe
Summary: "The Lost Queen tells the story of Languoreth, Queen of Cadzow, who lived in sixth century Scotland and came of age at a time when invading Anglo-Saxon forces and the rise of Christianity threatened to change her way of life forever. Together with her twin brother Lailoken, destined to be a Wisdom Keeper and eventually known to history as Merlin, she is catapulted into a world of danger and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIKArden, Katherine
Summary: "Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen. Reviewers called Katherine Arden's novels The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower"lyrical,""emotionally stirring,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ARDWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "Time and again, New York Times bestselling author Karen White has proven herself to be the "ultimate voice of women's fiction."* Now you can revisit the emergence of her signature style in two of her earliest novels--completely revised and together in one volume for the first time. In the Shadow of the Moon -- When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WHIRice, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICPaige, Danielle
Summary: For centuries the members of the Entente have worked in tandem with the Three Fates-- the Present, the Past, and the Future-- to maintain destiny across the Thirteen Queendoms. When Queen Magrit learns of her untimely demise from Hecate, Fate of the Future, Magrit burns Hecate at the stake and decrees death to all Entente in order to live forever. But some survive. Farrow hatches a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury YA 2023