Zgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ADAHorn, Dara
Summary: Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years-ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORDairman, Tara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End, until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOLaskowski, Tara
Summary: When house sitter Allison Simpson becomes drawn into the story of a girl who disappeared from town thirty years before, she begins to realize that Opal Beach isn't as idyllic as it seems. The walls of the gorgeous homes hide dark secrets. And as Allison digs deeper into the mystery, she uncovers not only the shocking truth, but finds herself caught in the middle of a twisted plot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LASKim, Aram.
Summary: Yoomi hates stinky spicy kimchi--until Grandma makes kimchi pancakes for her!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE NOBlack, Cara
Summary: Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost--a Serbian warlord she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLAMathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATBuckley, Carla (Carla S.)
Summary: Eve Lattimore's family is like every other on their suburban street, with one exception. Her son Tyler has a rare medical condition that makes him fatally sensitive to light, which means heavy curtains and deadlocked doors protect him during the day and he can never leave the house except at night. For Eve, only constant vigilance stands between an increasingly restless teenage son and the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCDonati, Sara
Summary: The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie--both graduates of the Woman's Medical School--treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DONDriscoll, Sara.
Summary: FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and her trusted search-and-rescue Labrador, Hawk, must race against the clock before a diabolical killer strikes again. Somewhere in the Washington, D.C., area, a woman lies helpless in a box. In Quantico, the FBI receives a coded message from the woman's abductor. He wants to play a game with them: decipher the clues, find the grave, save the girl. The FBI's top...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DRIParetsky, Sara
Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old neighborhood, but she always keeps a promise. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. When V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried, she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Paretsky 2015Pennypacker, Sara
Summary: Third-grader Clementine constantly has brilliant ideas popping into her brain, but sometimes they get her in trouble. Only a few people really understand her--her parents of course, and her favorite teacher Mr. D'Matz. When he receives an opportunity to do research in Egypt, Clementine hatches a plan to keep him at her school--but as usual, it doesn't quite work out the way she wants.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: Clementine faces changes at the end of her third grade year and anticipates the birth of her family's new baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Pennypacker, Sara
Summary: It's been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives. Pax and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of kits they must protect in a dangerous world. Meanwhile Peter, newly orphaned after the war, wracked with guilt and loneliness, leaves his adopted home with Vola to join the Water Warriors, a group of people determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PENHalpern, Sue
Summary: A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer, and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HALLester, Helen.
Summary: Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE TACBlædel, Sara
Summary: Four days later, Louise Rick still had no answers. The body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a local forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should have made the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. As the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, Louise risks involving the media by releasing a photo of the victim, hoping to find someone who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BLAFoster, Sara
Summary: Tom Carruso left home soon after Lizzie Burdett disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's disappearance, intent on telling his side of the story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FOSGruen, Sara.
Summary: A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUParetsky, Sara.
Summary: The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007