Parry, Ambrose
Summary: Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back at 52 Queen Street, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMoniz, Tomas
Summary: "Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole--a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender--is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acre 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONParry, Ambrose
Summary: "Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParry, Ambrose
Summary: "Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARTomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Summary: Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOMRussell, Sean
Summary: While on route to the Caribbean to meddle with French shipping to the colonies, Captain Charles Hayden must deal with two dilemmas when the HMS Themis first rescues a suspicious pair of Spanish castaways whose origins and agenda are suspect, and then stumbles across a crippled slave ship. Upon arriving at the Barbados station, he finds himself under the command of the impetuous and foolhardy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSSummary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWFlintham, Thomas
Summary: When King Viking, Miss Business, and their henchmen team up to cause trouble, Super Rabbit Boy and Mega Mole Girl also join forces, but will they be able to work together to save Underland?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLIFlintham, Thomas
Summary: This time Super Rabbit Boy will need the power of the Super Wand to defeat the evil King Viking--but first he must go on a seemingly endless series of quests before he can obtain the wand and save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLIMacri, Thomas
Summary: The X-Men glimpse into a dark future, and then must try to prevent it from becoming a reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MACMacri, Thomas
Summary: Tells the story of Peter Parker, a normal teenage boy who, when bitten by a radioactive spider and given spider-like super powers, decides to fight crime as the superhero Spider-Man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MARMacri, Thomas
Summary: An origins tale recounting how five mutants became the Uncanny X-Men describes the rigorous training courses that helped them perfect their superpowers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MACPerry, Thomas.
Summary: Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. Elle is no petty thief, she is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. After stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from the home of a wealthy art dealer, Elle discovers that somebody is searching for her. As Elle realizes that her knowledge of the murder has made her a target, she races to solve the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Company 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERPierce, Thomas
Summary: "Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if anything--awaits us on the other side. Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, messages from the beyond, and a machine that connects the living and the dead....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fiction Pierce 2018Thomas, Isabel
Summary: "Fox teaches her cubs to survive in the wild, until one day she dies. Her body goes back to earth and grass and air, nourishing the world around her, showing that death is also a beginning"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOCooper, Thomas
Summary: "Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses--a moribund motel and shabby amusement park--endangered but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOFlintham, Thomas
Summary: When Sunny's father enters a video game he finds himself as the evil King Viking, but he is not very good at playing, so King Viking finds himself falling down and getting lost, and wondering if he will ever escape from the game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLIFlintham, Thomas
Summary: King Viking is doing a lot of evil plans at the same time so, with the help of Moon Girl and others, Super Rabbit comes up with a plan to stop the supervillain's attacks.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLIKeneally, Thomas
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMacri, Thomas
Summary: Conflict arises when the merciless Kree and the Skrulls go to war, placing the Earth in danger as it waits for help from Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MACMacri, Thomas
Summary: Conflict arises when the merciless Kree and the Skrulls go to war, placing the Earth in danger as it waits for help from Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MACPerry, Thomas
Summary: Twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town, burning down homes and businesses. An immense search ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERTaylor, Thomas
Summary: "It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC TAYThomas, Angie
Summary: If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021