Summary: Detroit is a city of stories. In this, we are rich. We begin with abundance. But while much is written about our city these hard days, it is typically meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Much of this writing is brilliant, but our anthology, this anthology, is different: it is a collection of Detroit stories for Detroiters. Through essays, photographs, poetry, and art, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rust Belt Chic Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DETSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWClaire, Ann
Summary: "In this series debut, a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, compelling the Christie sisters and their cat, Agatha, to call on all they've learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist. Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She's recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family's historic bookshop with her elder sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLABardugo, Leigh
Summary: "Kaz Bekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly wakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BARMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Lindy Carmichael isn't feeling particularly joyful when she returns home to Wenatchee, Washington, for Christmas. The man she thought was "the one" has cheated on her with her best friend, and she feels completely devoid of creativity in her graphic-design job. Not even carolers or Christmas cookies can cheer her up, but Lindy's mother, Ellen, remembers an old tradition that might lift her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MACClark, M. H.
Summary: "Some days I feel so WILD and BRACE and some days I feel small. THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS TO BE when you're as BIG inside as me"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compendium Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLASummary: "The third in the Very Christmas series, this volume brings together Italian Christmas stories in a collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg and Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda. These literary [works] are filled with ancient churches,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERSewell, Anna
Summary: This classic story is told in the words of Black Beauty, a sleek, well-bred horse. He tells of his shock at leaving a pleasant meadow in the country for the dark streets of Victorian London, with little idea what is in store for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEWClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Five years after her husband's murder, Laurie Moran, an award-winning TV producer and single mother, starts filming a new "cold case" series in which four women involved in the unsolved murder of a wealthy Westchester matron reunite to recreate the scene of the crime--along with the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Michel 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 468CLA FRENCHAhlborn, Ania
Summary: "--a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years. Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P AHLSanna, Francesca
Summary: When a young girl has to move countries and start at a new school, her fear tells her to be alone and afraid. How can she hope to make friends if she doesn't understand anyone? Surely no one else feels the same way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2018
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Summary: "The Bolds are a family of hyenas living as humans in a suburban house. But now their kindness to animal waifs and strays has become legendary, and more and more animals keep turning up to stay!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLABlack, Cara
Summary: "A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession--he's waited 50 years to make it, and now it can't wait another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2018Davidson, Zanna
Summary: Billy hates swimming. It is cold and wet and horrible. And just when Billy thinks things cannot get any worse, his pet Mini Monsters turn up at his swimming lesson and make one very big SPLASH.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DAVDavidson, Zanna
Summary: "When Zoe discovers that Unicorn Island is flooding, she knows she has to stop the waters--and fast. Is there any way for Zoe and her best friend Astra, the fairy unicorn, to save the island from disaster?"--Page [4] cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2018
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Summary: "Winter has arrived on Unicorn Island, and Zoe can't wait to visit the Frost Fair with her best friend, Astra, the fairy unicorn. But when cursed snowflakes begin falling, the unicorns are turned to ice. Who could be behind this evil plan--and can Zoe and Astra stop them?"--Page [4] cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DAVLeicht, Stina
Summary: "On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about its proprietary AIs, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIBardugo, Leigh
Summary: From the pages of Bardugo's Grisha trilogy comes this illustrated replica of The Lives of Saints, the Istorii Sankt'ya. Featuring tales of saints drawn from the beloved novels and beyond, it includes miracles and martyrdoms from familiar saints like Sankta Lizabeta of the Roses and Sankt Ilya in Chains, to the strange and obscure stories of Sankta Ursula, Sankta Maradi, and the Starless Saint....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARBardugo, Leigh
Summary: "The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Alina forges new alliances as she and Mal search for Morozova's last amplifier. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that alters her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BardugoBardugo, Leigh
Summary: "Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARLeigh, Melinda
Summary: "When her sister Erin is murdered and Erin's husband goes missing, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert vows to uncover the secrets of her sister's life and death but when the danger hits close to home, her own family is caught in a death grip."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIBlack, Cara
Summary: Aimée Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aimée's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chloé, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aimée rushes to get Chloé, annoyed that, yet again, her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2019Black, Cara
Summary: Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost, a Serbian warlord her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Cara
Summary: "The world knows Aimee Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tres chic, no-nonsense private investigator the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimee first became a detective. November 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's preeminent medical school. She lives in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016