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Copenhagen (Denmark) History 19th century Fiction Denmark History Christian IX, 1863-1906 Fiction Divorced women Divorced women Fiction Human-alien encounters Human-alien encounters Fiction Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Teenage girls Fiction Tornadoes Fiction Young adult fictionBallantyne, Lisa.
Summary: "They're calling it the worst pile-up in London history. Driving home, Margaret Holloway has her mind elsewhere-on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting-when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls her from the car just seconds before it's engulfed in flames. Then he simply disappears. Though she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALLawrence, Iain
Summary: Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LAWLawrence, Iain
Summary: Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAWReid, Iain
Summary: This novel explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIPears, Iain.
Summary: n 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEABain, Donald
Summary: If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRUKhalid, Zain
Summary: "In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHABain, Donald
Summary: David Portland's life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company. Information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception - one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son's death. Meanwhile, Robert Brixton has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIBain, Donald
Summary: "Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Bain 2014Hahn, Erin
Summary: "18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what's left of the family she never knew existed. While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor's kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship about the church. The clock is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Hahn 2021Sardar, Gian
Summary: "Readers of Kate Atkinson will delight in this suspenseful and romantic debut novel about a woman haunted by nightmares and her grandmother's role in a doomed love triangle almost seventy years before. Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now thirty-three and eager to settle down with her commitment-shy boyfriend, a recurring dream from her past returns: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARGwin, Minrose
Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018Liu, Cixin
Summary: Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUAbbas, Fatin
Summary: "A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABBSummary: Henry Fielding and his blind brother John battle the perilous streets of Covent Garden in their quest to clean up crime-ridden 18th century London. The complete first season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2008
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Summary: "In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: "With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2014
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Summary: "With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUCaine, Rachel
Summary: Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealousy guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny. Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in Philadelphia, a city led by those who would rather burn books than submit. But Jess and his friends have a bargaining chip: the knowledge to build...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAICaine, Rachel
Summary: Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAIMaalouf, Amin.
Summary: The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAAFein, Louise
Summary: "Leipzig, 1930's Germany. Hetty Herta is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything. Blond haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life when she was a young child. Her brother's childhood best friend. A Jew. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEICaine, Rachel
Summary: "In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo. Gwen understands what it's like to worry about your children. Gwen's investigation unearths new suspects ... and victims. As she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAICaine, Rachel
Summary: "Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn't over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text... You're not safe anywhere now. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2017