Sibson, Laura
Summary: "It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left. According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It's just as much a part of a Mitchell's life as brewing healing remedies or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family's legacy as local "witches." When her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SIBLaure, Estelle
Summary: "Teen detective Mary Elizabeth continues to unravel a dark conspiracy that has turned her best friend and boyfriend into villainous monsters--all while battling her own inner demons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAULaure, Estelle
Summary: At a party, Jo Beckett finds out that the boys on the wrestling team she manages consider her a "practice girl": good enough to hook up with but not to date. Now Jo feels , ashamed, betrayed, and angry, but refuses to let that label define her. In piecing her life back together, she must face uncomfortable truths about all her relationships-- from her best friend to the boy she likes-- that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUGibson, Rachel.
Summary: L.A. based tabloid reporter Hope Spencer has come to Gospel hoping for inspiration. Well, she gets inspiration.... Hope has never met anybody quite like the residents of Gospel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBBisson, Terry.
Summary: In a South where the Civil War never happened, a successful slave revolution spawns a socialist utopia, and a Black woman grieves for the loss of her astronaut husband on a mission to Mars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PM 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BISBernstein, Leora
Summary: George, Allie, and Bill want to practice gymnastics every day, so they decide to turn the backyard into a gym.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR SPANISH BERLaurain, Antoine
Summary: "When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: she has no idea of the author's identity. As the police begin to investigate a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAULaurain, Antoine.
Summary: Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. After the presidential party has gone, Daniel discovers that Mitterrand's black felt hat has been left behind. Daniel decides to keep the hat as a souvenir, and as he leaves the restaurant, he begins to feel somehow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Laurain 2013Chandrasekera, Vajra
Summary: "The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD TAMHobson, Brandon
Summary: "A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBDearman, Lara
Summary: "The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It is the world's only Dark Sky Island. This breathtaking patch of land seems the picture of tranquility--but at its heart lies a web of murder, deceit, and hidden danger. When bones are discovered on Derrible Bay and an elderly resident is violently murdered,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEADobson, Melanie
Summary: "1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she's starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners, a pastor and his wife, have left something - or rather someone - behind... Tom Dean has a bitter hatred for the father who considers him a lost cause, and for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROUIson, Graham
Summary: "June 1918. A patrolling constable discovers the body of Georgina Cheney, wife of a naval commander, in the basement area of a house in Westminster. At first it is thought to be suicide or even a tragic accident. But as Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the A or Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police begins to investigate --ably assisted by Detective Sergeant Charles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISORouda, Kaira Sturdivant
Summary: When her husband's indiscretion with a young staffer threatens to ruin everything she has accomplished, Jody Asher, the wife of a political icon, flips the narrative as the balance of power shifts when he suddenly dies, securing the future she's entitled to despite her secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUWood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOMiura, Kentarō
Summary: "Faced with the Kushan emperor's horrific new form, and the bloody swath of destruction and spawning demons he leaves in his wake with each step, the soldiers in Griffith's new Band of the Hawk must assume their true unholy forms to battle the emperor, revealing their true faces to the citizens of Midland. How will these tormented refugees react when they discover that their would-be rescuers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2010
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Summary: A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura's novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIUAnganuzzi, Clara
Summary: "Ayla lives on a beautiful tropical island surrounded by a coral reef. Her mom is a marine biologist, and every day, the two go exploring together. One day, Ayla notices that many of the fish have disappeared, and the once-vibrant corals have turned pale. She and her mom set out to save the corals--but is it too late?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANGChilds, Laura
Summary: When their longtime friend at County services, Hannah Venable, dies in a fire, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni, vowing to find the arsonist, investigate a possible connection with the nearby Prairie Star Casino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CHIGriffin, Laura
Summary: "Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind. She grew up in rural Texas, where her father raised search-and-rescue dogs, and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she's perplexed, but she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRIKasischke, Laura
Summary: The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl. Nicole was a straight-A student from a small town, sweet-tempered, all-American, a former Girl Scout, and a virgin. Too young to die. Unless she didn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASMcNeal, Laura
Summary: "A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024