Ferrell, Carolyn
Summary: "Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Summary: "For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for her-but she has no interest in coming out to her backwards parents, she wouldn't know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has neither a gaydar nor a sexual history to speak of. Not to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "Cassandra Williams is twelve, and her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, an accident happens and Wayne is lost forever. Or so it seems. Though his body is never recovered, their mother, unable to give up hope, launches an organization dedicated to missing children. Their father simply leaves, starts another family somewhere else. As C grows older, she sees her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022
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Summary: On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man's greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERWarrell, Laura
Summary: "An ensemble-cast novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and the multiple women-some charmed by him, others scorned-who find the power of their own voices in this thrilling debut It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies man, lives for his music, and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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Summary: Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban immigrants, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH GARWyatt, Merrill
Summary: Sloane and Amelia clash with rival detectives when they travel to Tangle Glen mansion with the goal to find the two million dollars that went missing on the premises decades ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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Summary: "Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: After the death of his friend, Tony must work to make the basketball team, but when he gets the chance to join the squad as statistician, he must grapple with honoring the memory of his basketball-loving friend while also trying to fit in on the team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2022
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Summary: Inheriting Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for generations, Angela Marie, saddled with a legacy she never wanted, comes to see this as a precious gift by coming to terms with her past with the help of a handsome veteran she hires as a farmhand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2024
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Summary: "Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner Tinkie are in Sheriff Coleman Peters's office, consulting Coleman about cold cases, when Elisa Redd storms in with a case of her own. She wants Coleman to reopen the investigation of her missing daughter, Lydia Redd Maxell, the heiress to a large fortune who disappeared along with her friend Bethany nearly seven years ago. Lydia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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Summary: Ramona's got a bratty boss, a toddler teetering through toilet training, a critical mom who doesn't mind sharing, and oops, a cheating husband. That's how a Category Four hurricane bearing down on her life in Savannah becomes just another item on her to-do list. In the next forty-eight hours she'll add a neighborhood child and the class guinea pig named Clarence Thomas to her entourage as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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Summary: The Clue Crew investigates who sabotaged the River Heights Nature Park's fundraiser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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Summary: "An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins. Their grandmother Lucy left Nessa, Flynn, and April her home nestled in the woods near Blossom, Texas, as well as a hope chest to be unlocked after they complete a special task. Together, they must hand-stitch a cherished quilt Lucy left unfinished. It meant everything to her. And now, to three people struggling with their own patchwork...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2021
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Summary: "Bones of Holly is the next novel from Carolyn Haines in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Sarah Booth and Tinkie, along with baby Maylin, are in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi for Christmas this year, as judges for the annual library tree decorating contest. The other two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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Summary: Nancy and her boyfriend Ned visit Coffin Hall to research the library's rumored ghost, but when a fire breaks out and Ned is blamed, it is up to Nancy to find the true culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: "Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew investigate who filled their piñata with candy instead of chimpanzee food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love-so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons. Oanh's current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She's divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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Summary: Nancy investigates the disappearance of the bride while attending the wedding of her friends Bess and George's cousin Veronica's wedding to the owner of local extreme sports complex in Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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Summary: Because of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1995
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Summary: "At the end of her rope, single mom Lily Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. That means taking away their cell phones, tablets, and computers - at least temporarily - and moving to the house where Lily grew up in the rural town of Comfort, Texas. But Lily has a bigger challenge than two sulking kids. The house comes with Mack Cooper, high school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2019
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Summary: "At the end of her rope, single mom Lily Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. That means taking away their cell phones, tablets, and computers - at least temporarily - and moving to the house where Lily grew up in the rural town of Comfort, Texas. But Lily has a bigger challenge than two sulking kids. The house comes with Mack Cooper, high school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: "Carolyn Haines's Lady of Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. It's Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie's new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to refresh the cocktails when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022