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Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: "FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

Letts, Elizabeth

Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LET

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Letts 2019

Letts, Elizabeth

Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC LET BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperback copies)

Dave, Laura

2 holds on 3 copies

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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAV

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

Turow, Scott

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "At 85 years old, Alejandro 'Sandy' Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial" -- Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TUR

Turow, Scott

Summary: "At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Palombo, Alyssa

Summary: "A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAL

Grisham, John

Summary: "Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Harris, Nathan

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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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

Dave, Laura

1 hold on 3 copies

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAV

Manushkin, Fran

Summary: When Katie's grandmother trips and breaks her ankle, Katie learns about the importance of paramedics to her neighborhood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Braun, Lilian Jackson

Summary: Qwill and his cats vacation in Mooseville, but when the carpenter he hires disappears, he begins to investigate what may be a serial killer's plan to wipe out the area's woodworkers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1989

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Lu, Marie

Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021

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

Lapena, Shari

Summary: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC LAP

Manushkin, Fran

Summary: When Katie's grandmother trips and breaks her ankle, Katie learns about the importance of paramedics to her neighborhood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH MAN

Pataki, Allison

Summary: "In imperial Vienna, where the court halls buzzed with waltzes and champagne, as well as temptation, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue, the intensely personal tale of Empress Sisi unraveled. Infamously beautiful, a mother of four, and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph - whom she unintentionally stole away from her sister - Sisi's reign was anything but simple. Against the backdrop of a rich, romantic,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Pataki 2016

Davies, Katharine.

Summary: "By turns comic and moving, The Madness of Love is a deftly woven tale of mistaken identity, bold moves, and unrequited desires. Valentina, a clerk in a London bookstore, is still reeling after her twin brother broke a childhood promise and ran off without her to exotic lands. When she cuts her hair, masquerades as a gardener to the melancholic Leo, and moves to the remote seaside town of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAV

Jemc, Jac

Summary: History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a stubborn refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them. Ludwig, simultaneously spoiled and punished for his softness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEM

Lang, Heidi

Summary: Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana, when they suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and spot the smoke of a forest fire above them; in order to survive they need to learn to depend on each other--or the name of the hiking area, No Return Wilderness, may prove to be prophetic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAN

O'Farrell, Maggie

Summary: "A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'FA

Cook, Robin

Summary: "Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"-- an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Summary: Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case, an investigation previously botched by another...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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