Turnbull, Bryn
Summary: Summer, 1926. When Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she is immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary wealth and privilege. For Thelma, the daughter of an American diplomat, her new life as a member of the British aristocracy is like a fairy tale-- even more so when her husband introduces her to Edward, Prince of Wales. Her marriage to Duke leads her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TURGreenwood, Bryn
Summary: "As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBryon, Nathan
Summary: Aspiring astronaut Rocket draws her community together to see a rare appearance of the Phoenix Meteor Showers, hoping especially that her big brother, Jamal, will look up from his phone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BRYKyle, Aryn.
Summary: Sixth grader Alice Winston is having a rough year. Her older sister elopes. Her depressed mother won't get out of bed. Her father struggles to save their faltering horse ranch. And Alice's school pal drowns. Caught in a dizzying adult world, Alice soon faces challenges that threaten to shatter her dreams and her family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KylMacDibble, Bren
Summary: "It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimming, then we'll swap places. We's always doing things as a team, him and me. We's gonna be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MACBryon, Lucie
Summary: What happened last night? Ella can't seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger's mansion, and she sure as heck doesn't know why she's woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie's nest of objects that aren't her own. And she can't stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can't tell about her sudden penchant for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 BRYQuertermous, Bryon.
Summary: Dominick Prince is out of options. He’s lived in Detroit long enough to use his experiences of crime and poverty to fuel his writing, but he’s ready to move on to bigger and better things. Dominick’s thesis advisor, the elitist Parker Farmington, refuses to let Dominick pass his class, thinking the genre of potboilers beneath him. Which means rather than becoming the next literary sensation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUEBrod, Chanie
Summary: Clap, play, and giggle as you spin the dreidel, light the menorah, and fill the plate with latkes! Inspired by Hervé Tullet's Press Here, Let's Play Dreidel is the perfect Chanukah gift for the preschoolers in your life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menucha Publishers, INC. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE BROBennett, Brit
Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BENBain, 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 2014Galbraith, Bree
Summary: "There are many things Wednesday Wilson would like you to know about herself. But chief among them is that she is an entrepreneur. Wednesday hasn't actually started any businesses yet, but she's pretty sure today is the day. That's why she's so excited for you to read her book! You'll get to know her before she makes it big! She's also pretty excited for you to get to know all the awesome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GALAlston, Bria
Summary: When Tiana decides to try cooking with a new spicy pepper, she is excited to begin but first, she learns how to plant a garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH/Disney 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green AlstonGibby, Bayne.
Summary: A sweet rhyming story about a mother's love for her child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2013
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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 TRUGalbraith, Bree
Summary: "Usha lives in a town where the sun hasn't shone for as long as anyone can remember. Only her grandfather remembers its brilliance and tells Usha stories about the time before other people took the sun away, building a wall to keep it all to themselves. So Usha decides to do something, and sets off in search of the sun. When at last Usha reaches the wall, she tries to kick it down, climb it,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENBennett, Brit
Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENBruen, Ken
Summary: "Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BRUBennett, Brit
Summary: Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENBeyl, Chelsea
Summary: Vampirina's family has opened their Scare B and B and Vampirina hopes that the guests have a great time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020
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Summary: Vampirina can't wait to deliver valentines to her friends at school! But when a magical Transylvanian ghoulentine gets mixed up with her valentines, Vee has to find it before the whole class gets spooked!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE BEYLymon, Bria
Summary: You can be a teacher: Malibu and Brooklyn help teach children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: A naive young Englishman travels to Transylvania to do business with a client, Count Dracula. After showing his true and terrifying colors, Dracula boards a ship for England in search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters begin to occur in the streets of London before the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to rest. Told in a series of news reports from eyewitness observers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions 1993