Aslam, Nadeem.
Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Summary: Heartwarming tales of friendship between a long-haired guinea pig and a naked mole rat in the spirit of Frog and Toad. In the second book in this charming series of graphic novels, three more delightful stories explore themes of friendship, grief, and belonging. These three stories dig deep, showing Otis and Peanut dealing with the death of Pearl, Peanut's sister and Otis's friend. Addressing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2024
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Summary: To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. Yet after twenty-six years of singledom, and still no sign of "Mr. Perfect," even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAHAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: When his fiancée abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Abdul-Jabbar 2015Basham, Brendan Shay
Summary: When the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "Michael Shepard, a detective with his own set of problems, is hired one morning by a fashionable young woman at her Hollywood apartment. Soon he's embroiled in a murder investigation that may shed light on a nearly forgotten tragedy. A divorced father wondering how to set his son on a better course in life, the detective gets into deepening trouble as he negotiates a vivid panorama of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2015
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Summary: Takes a loving look at knees from the vantage point of a mother's lap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ASILemmie, Asha
Summary: "From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lemmie 2020Ahlberg, Allan.
Summary: Presents a day in the life of a loaf of bread that is baked early in the morning and enjoyed slice by slice by the baker and his wife as well as their son, a dog, ducks, fish, birds, and finally a tiny mouse that nibbles up the last crumbs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AHLAllan, Barbara
Summary: "It happened at Serenity's swap meet, right after Brandy Borne and her ever-more-eccentric mother Vivian finished shooting the pilot for their very own TV show, Antiques Sleuths. Brandy just, well, lost her balance and fell...into the helpful arms of an old flame, local tycoon Wesley Sinclair III. But did Brandy's innocent slip lead to the murder of Wesley's wife, Vanessa?"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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Summary: While dealing with morning sickness, her bipolar mother, and the citywide antiques bazaar, Brandy Borne must also deal with murder when a ninety-year-old Russian widow donates a priceless antique that is not what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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Summary: A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Ahlberg 2008Allan, Barbara.
Summary: Moving back in with her mother, Vivian, Brandy Borne finds her life in the town of Serenity anything but serene, especially when their antiques booth at the mall is overwhelmed with holiday business and Vivian's former flame, an antiques dealer, is foundmurdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2008
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Summary: When her "charmingly eccentric" mother Vivian is accused of killing mousy-haired busybody Connie Grimes after they were both involved in a bit of a scuffle, Brandy Borne must find the truth, which immerses her in a scandal involving questionable antiques and dark family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLFoster, Harold R. (Harold Rudolf)
Summary: This volume leads off with the epic ten-month saga of Val's globe-trotting search for Aleta through Nothern Africa, with stops in Jerusalem, the Arabic deserts (including an eye-popping visit to a harem), and ultimately the "Misty Isles." But their romance is not destined to be (at least not yet) and so a disappointed, even embittered Val wends his eventful way back to Camelot - encountering en...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 741.5 FOSCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: Private investigator Ms. Michael Tree looks into the twin killings of the account manager and his afternoon fling. She obviously rejects the outraged wife motive that the police push; besides which the case reminds her of her own personal history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hard Case Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLJohnson, Adam
Summary: ""In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. 'George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine' follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. 'Nirvana' portrays a programmer whose wife has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2016
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Summary: "[A]n edgy novel set in the netherworld of the Mexican-American border. On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface. It's a deadly epidemic of crime that plunges a small-town police chief into a monster of an investigation he's not equipped to handle. An ancient evil has returned, and now everyone-- the innocent and the guilty-- must face their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANBlade, Adam.
Summary: In the perilous Black Ocean lurks Narga the Sea Monster. As well as preying on the rebels and fighting evil wizard Malvel, Narga is holding one of the good Beasts of Avantia captive. Can Tom set the good Beast free, or will it remain trapped in the Dark Realm for ever?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLAGidwitz, Adam
Summary: After encountering a Jersey Devil while on a field trip to the Pine Barrens, Elliot and his new friend Uchenna help their weird teacher Professor Fauna rescue the mythological creature from a pair of greedy billionaire brothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2018
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Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: Taladon the Swift has returned! But to Tom's horror, his father is a ghost. To save Taladon, Tom must battle the Ghost Beasts and collect the pieces of the shattered Amulet of Avantia. First is Nixa the Death Bringer. Will her deadly disguises lure Tom to his death?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLAChristopher, Adam
Summary: "A far future space opera set in the universe of Burning Dark. In the decades since the human race first made contact with the Spiders--a machine race capable of tearing planets apart--the two groups have fought over interstellar territory. But the war has not been going well for humankind, and with the failure of the Fleet Admiral's secret plan in the Shadow system, the commander is overthrown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2015
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Summary: "Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020