Kuipers, Alice
Summary: Polly loves words, writing, and telling stories, so when she finds a fancy book on her doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing and Spelling Department for Polly Diamond" she is thrilled; and when she finds that anything she writes in it actually happens she is really excited--but Polly soon realizes that she has to be very careful what she writes because that kind of power can be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KUIBoyadjian, Maral
Summary: It is 1913 and late summer in the Ottoman Empire. The sun rises, full and golden, atop a lush, centuries-old village tucked into the highlands where the blood-red poppies bloom. Outside the village leader's home, the sound of voices carries past the grapevines to the lane where Anno, his youngest daughter, slips out unseen. She heads to a secret meeting place. She forgets that enemies surround...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salor Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: "When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia.
Summary: When a young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house, Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called upon to investigate. It appears that they have found the final resting place of fourteen-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from that same garden two decades before. With a murder twenty years in the past, this is the coldest of cold cases. Most of the suspects and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARElias, Gerald
Summary: "A freak summer storm severs an island music festival in the middle of Utah's Great Salt Lake from the mainland. When one festival administrator, and then a second, is found dead, can curmudgeonly Daniel Jacobus solve the murders before his protégée, violinist Yumi Shinagawa, becomes the third victim?"--Amazon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Level Best Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIMurnane, Gerald
Summary: On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute detail every aspect of their lives, and the nature of their land. A young film-maker arrives on the plains, hoping to make his own contribution to the elaboration of this history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURMurnane, Gerald
Summary: "Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane - the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A Season on Earth is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections - the first two of which were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: "The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found? . . . Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery class and didn't come back. She's a mature, sensible woman with a stable home life and a happy marriage - no reason to abscond. Her distraught husband is convinced she must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: "1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward is given an important job at the Peace Conference in Paris, but it means more lonely months away from Beattie and his hoped-for reconciliation. Fred's unit is sent to the Rhine, and Cook feels a guilty relief that her uprooting has been postponed. Laura's friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: "The woman lies dead at the foot of the stairs. It's obvious what happened: she tripped and fell. But PC D'Arblay, called to the dilapidated West London villa by an anonymous tip-off, can't shake the feeling that's exactly what someone wants him to think. It was the deep head wound that killed her - but her dying fall left no blood trail, so what was it she hit her head on? DCI Slider, of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: 1901. When The Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family. With their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARElias, Gerald
Summary: "Blind violinist Daniel Jacobus is living in self-imposed exile and enjoying a peaceful Christmas Eve when he receives an anxious phone call from obscure violin-maker Amadeo Borlotti, urgently requesting a meeting. In their festivity, Daniel Jacobus and his dear friends Nathaniel and Yumi make light of it and dismiss Borlotti's request. But when Borlotti goes mising after a fire in his shop,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIElias, Gerald.
Summary: "Reclusive, blind violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus is invited to speak at a seemingly innocuous symposium on Baroque music at a prestigious music conservatory. He has no idea he is about to become enmeshed in an entrenched culture of sexual harassment and its cover-up at the highest levels. When a renowned faculty member dies of apparent natural causes, only the curious behavior of a violin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIHolub, Joan
Summary: After pulling a magical thunderbolt from a stone, ten-year-old Zeus goes on the adventure of a lifetime in this thrilling start to a brand-new series! The terrible Titans-merciless giants who enjoy snacking on humans-have dominated the earth and put the world into chaos. But their rule is about to be put to the test as a group of young Olympians discover their powers and prepare to righteously...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Holub 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOLHolub, Joan
Summary: Athena learns that she is a goddess when she is summoned to Mount Olympus by her father, Zeus, and she must quickly adjust to her new status, make friends with the other godboys and goddessgirls, and catch up with all the studies she missed while attending mortal school.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOLHolub, Joan
Summary: Despite the warnings of her friends at Mount Olympus Academy, Persephone befriends bad-boy Hades, but following her mother's advice to "go along to get along" complicates her relationships with all of them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOLHolub, Joan
Summary: Athena learns that she is a goddess when she is summoned to Mount Olympus by her father, Zeus, and she must quickly adjust to her new status, make friends with the other godboys and goddessgirls, and catch up with all the studies she missed while attending mortal school.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE ATHTamaki, Jillian
Summary: In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, Tamaki follows a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colors in the world around her. Egg yolks are sunny orange as expected, yet water cupped in her hands isn't blue like they say. But maybe a blue whale is blue. She doesn't know, she hasn't seen one.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE THEFordham, Fred
Summary: Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC FITOlson, Michael
Summary: Bingo and Rolly's mission takes them all the way to sunny Hawaii!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE DISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC OLSWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN WILPilkey, Dav
Summary: When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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5 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PILPilkey, Dav
Summary: When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PILPilkey, Dav
Summary: Piggy is back, and his newest plot is his most diabolical yet. Dog Man and the rest of your favorite characters must join together. What new villains are on the horizon? Where are they all coming from? And who will step forward to save the city when scoundrels sabotage our Supa Buddies?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2023