Quartey, Kwei.
Summary: Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUAOcean, Davy
Summary: "Harry Hammer's latest hero, Terranaut Buzz Sharkfin, is planning a mission to outer space, which to a shark is planet Earth! Harry and his lifelong frenemy Rick Reef are chosen for Buzz's daring mission, but daring turns dangerous when the guys come fin-to-fin with dogs, cars, and--yikes!--humans in this strange and wacky new world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OCEOcean, Davy
Summary: Harry Hammer thinks he sees a fierce great white shark near Shark Point. He sounds the alarm and everyone panics! Turns out it's just an old basking shark, and now everyone is furious. After a couple more minnow-size mistakes, Harry sees a real great white shark and it's trouble"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: JE FIC OCEOcean, Davy
Summary: Harry Hammer's new hero is Turbo Tex, an Olimpet gold medal-winning tiger shark. When Harry meets Tony, an awesome tiger shark at Shark Point Sea-cub Camp, he wants to be friends, but can't seem to win over Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: JE FIC OCERebeck, Theresa.
Summary: Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her Midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REBOcean, Davy
Summary: Harry the hammerhead shark wishes he could be any other type of shark, but when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster, Harry realizes the importance of being exactly who he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OCEDavey, Melissa
Summary: Daddy Plays Disc Golf is a rhyming story about playing disc golf that both tells a story about a father and his daughter while teaching children how to play the game. Clever, joyful, and beautifully illustrated this story will bring the game to life and will be a pleasure to read!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rusty Patch Publishing, LLC 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DAV (BASKET)Davy, Gianna
Summary: "No One Owns the Colors is a lively celebration of self-expression and a bolstering invitation to advocate for your special uniqueness. The unnamed and non-gendered narrator shows us that colors are simply part of our natural world. No bit of the spectrum -- from pink and blue to scarlet and chartreuse -- is meant to be claimed by any one gender or being or culture. Color is not something that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Collective Book Studio 2023
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Summary: When humans show up at Shark Point to film an underwater documentary, Harry Hammer is thrilled. He's sure he's meant for the spotlight, but will he end up with the starring role of his dreams, or stay in deep-sea oblivion?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OCEPressberg, Dava
Summary: Harold the hamster loves playing in his cage and, when his human friend, Harper, takes him out, in his ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN PREBreck, Elizabeth
Summary: San Diego PI Madison Kelly arrives home to a note stabbed to her front door: "Stop investigating me, or I will hunt you down and kill you." The only problem? Madison hasn't been investigating anyone. The only way to remove the threat is to do exactly what "Anonymous", the note writer, is telling her not to do: investigate to see who left it. Madison has been tweeting about a true crime podcast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRELiu, Dane
Summary: Just before Chinese New Year, Dandan discovers that her family is moving to America, far away from her best friend Yueyue; before they leave Yueyue gives her a stack of red paper and a spool of string so she can share the art of paper cutting with Americans--and when Chinese New Year comes around again Dandan remembers Yueyue's gift and introduces her new friend Christina to this ancient art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUWhitethorne, Baje.
Summary: Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHICane, Emma
Summary: "Putting a painful breakup behind her, Amy has come home to help revitalize Fairfield Orchard, its blossom-scented air and rows of trees framed by the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains. She doesn't have time for the handsome--distracting--professor who wants to dig into her family's history for his research"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CANBaver, Kristin
Summary: "Go on an adventure with droid SF-R3 as he meets some of the most fascinating creatures in the Star Wars galaxy!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Lucasfilm Press 2022
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Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANBarry, Dave.
Summary: Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018Dave, Laura
Summary: A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVEggers, Dave
Summary: When Gran and his family move to Carousel, he has no idea that the town is built atop a secret. Little does he suspect, as he walks his sister to school or casually eats a banana, that mysterious forces lurk mere inches beneath his feet, tearing up the earth like mini-hurricanes and causing the town to slowly but surely sink. When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EGGMilbrandt, Dave
Summary: "When high school teacher Myles Bradford wins the Powerball lottery, he decides to do something truly unexpected: run for President of the United States. Bradford is eager about the opportunity, but his family clearly is not. With little time to sway them to his side, he's thrust into running a quarter-billion-dollar nationwide campaign, complete with cross-country flights and road trips,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ambassador International 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILBarry, Dave
Summary: Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems, if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BARBarry, Dave.
Summary: Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2004
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BARDave, Laura
Summary: "Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021