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Johansen, Iris.

Summary: Determined to protect herself from the horrors of her childhood, a young woman finds her remote island refuge terrorized by ruthless mercenaries and heads to the open seas in a perilous race against time to find the site of a lost city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOH

Atwood, Margaret

Summary: "A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATW

James, Hollis

Summary: "Michelangelo discovers an amazing creature in the sewer. Is it a friend, an enemy, or a monster?"--Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013

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Shearer, Eleanor

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: "Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHE

Wilkerson, Charmaine

2 holds on 7 copies

Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Herman, Gail

Summary: Ariel's sisters have given her a beautiful present--a shimmering star-shell necklace. Ariel can't wait to wear it to the royal concert. But when the concert's lead singer, a young girl named Laurel, suddenly disappears, it's up to Ariel and her friends to find her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Herman 2014

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DIS

Wilkerson, Charmaine

Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WIL

Willems, Mo

Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WIL

Gilbert, Sian

Summary: For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a group of young women whose Caribbean bachelorette party takes a sinister turn. Its Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends--or...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Ross, Jacob

Summary: After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman. Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman's obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young man. But Digger has a murder to pursue too:...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Russell, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUS

Harris, Jane

Summary: Set in 1765 on the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Martinique, Sugar Money opens as two enslaved brothers - Emile and Lucien - are sent on an impossible mission forced upon them by their masters, a band of mendicant French monks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Alessandri, Alexandra

Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALE

Willems, Mo

Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN WIL

Holub, Joan.

Summary: "After overcoming many challenges, Zeus and his fellow Olympians arrive at the temple at Delphi--only to find a giant snake guarding the entrance! Beyond the python, Pythia appears. Trapped in the temple by the python's magic and mere presence, Pythia urges the Olympians not to worry about her, for they are urgently needed on another quest. The Olympians are now out to find the Spear of Fear. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC HOL

Simonson, Louise

Summary: There is a crack between Tartarus and the world, and through it Ares unleashes the god Hades's skeleton army on Gateway City to fight Wonder Woman--but Hades is manipulating Ares because he hopes to use a captive Wonder Woman as a bargaining chip to obtain the key that will release him from Tartarus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SIM

Cohen, Ivan

Summary: When Giganta steals the Pandora Jar from a museum in New York and opens it, releasing a wave of misery that changes the behavior of every human it touches, Wonder Woman suspects that somebody else is behind Giganta's actions; on the hidden island that was once her home Wonder Woman discovers that the real villain is Ares, God of War, and he is planning to use the jar to unleash World War III on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COH

Raúl the Third

Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

Martinez-Neal, Juana

Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

Summary: Ares, the God of War, has unleashed mythical monsters in New York City and it is up to Wonder Woman to save the city from the resulting mayhem--and in this You Choose book the reader must decide how she will proceed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KOR

Salazar, Alicia

Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SAL

Marshall, Kate Alice

Summary: "After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn't act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive-for now. Before: Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Sánchez, Erika L.

Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SAN

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SAN

Ryan, Pam Muñoz.

Summary: Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH RYA

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