Pettersen, Siri
Summary: Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETBatsha, Nishant
Summary: 1985. An Indian grocer has just been attacked by nativists aligned with the recent military coup. Now, fear and shock are rippling through Indian community on a small Pacific island as racial tensions rise to the brink.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022
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Summary: "Buenos Aires. 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters, sensible Julieta who lives in Miami, and wilful Graciela - nineteen, and madly in love with her fiancé, José. Those days will be the last the family ever spends together. On their return to Buenos Aires, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROWilkinson, Lauren
Summary: Marie Mitchell, a Cold War FBI intelligence officer, joins an undercover task force to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Communist president of Burkina Faso, who she secretly admires and comes to love, in a novel inspired by true events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WILBradby, Tom
Summary: London, 1953. Harry Tower is a recently widowed and world-weary British spy, out of favor and down on his luck. After a night spent drinking away his sorrows, he is awakened by a phone call with chilling news. His estranged son Sean has gone missing in Tehran after writing a damning article about the involvement of government officials in the opium trade. Harry springs to action, eager to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAKorman, Gordon
Summary: From Gordon Korman, the New York Times bestselling author of Restart, comes a hilarious new story about a group of underdogs who come together when they are forced to attend summer school--for failing PE. Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School--so good, in fact, that he's already playing on the high schools JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man's operatic and frustrating quest to eat it. The book is accompanied by a music cd of the opera being performed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jim Gill 2009
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Summary: When vampire hunter Anita Blake confronts The Harlequin, terrifying, powerful creatures feared even by the centuries-old vampires, rivals Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, the alpha werewolf, must become allies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2007
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Summary: Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATIBertrand, Pierre.
Summary: Quand il était petit, Pierre ne voulait pas manger sa soupe. «Tu sais ce qui arrive aux petits garçons qui ne veulent pas manger leur soupe?» lui disait son père, «Eh bien, à minuit, la sorcière Cornebidouille vient les voir dans leur chambre, et elle leur fait tellement peur que le lendemain, non seulement ils mangent leur soupe, mais ils avalent la soupière avec.» Pierre s’en fichait. Il ne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: École des loisirs 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 BON FRENCHEverhart, Donna
Summary: It takes courage to save yourself...In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together.Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVEScott, Anika
Summary: "Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScottBurke, James Lee
Summary: The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Burke 2019Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: When Rebecca attends summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREHigginson, Sheila Sweeny
Summary: "As Drac's family continues to grow, he realizes there will have to be some compromises--especially since his daughter, Mavis, is a vampire, and her husband, Johnny, is a human. But when it comes to his family, Drac always finds a way. He just needs to figure out how to make his new family a monster mash!"--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBSoyinka, Wole
Summary: "A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison) In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOYGenhart, Michael
Summary: Follows the reaction of a neighborhood of birds, from a congress of crows to a gaggle of geese, when a flamboyance of flamingos moves in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021
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Summary: To deliver her mother's delicious soup to her sick Granny Oak, Evergreen the squirrel must face her fears and make the journey, during which she meets other forest dwellers, including some who want to get their hands on her soup!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CORStutson, Caroline
Summary: As Mouse prepares soup to keep herself warm on a snowy autumn day, her forest friends arrive, hoping to share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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Summary: Book clubs from all over have descended on Crystal Cove to celebrate the library's Book Club Bonanza week, and Jenna Hart has packed the Cookbook Nook with juicy reads and tasty cookbooks. But she's most excited about spending an evening with the Mystery Mavens and their moveable feast, when they will go from house to house to share different culinary treats and discuss the whodunit they're all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cengage Gale 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIClanton, Ben
Summary: Ploof is a puffy cloud who's a little lonely -- but now you're here, and the fun can begin! Can you help Ploof overcome their shyness? Play pretend? Make Ploof laugh with your funny faces, find their hiding spot, give them a high five! Full of imaginative and interactive fun, each page of this perfect book for preschoolers offers a chance to play. By following cues to say hello, clap, blow,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group 2023
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Summary: "Too Small Tola lives in an apartment with her clever sister, Moji; her big brother, Dapo; and Grandmommy, who is very bossy. In the first of three endearing new adventures, Tola is sized just right to wriggle under the bed and rescue Grandmommy's prized possession when it goes missing. Her savvy and math skills save the day when Grandmommy gets sick, and when the family can't afford new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022