Jacks, Janie
Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACPacton, Jamie
Summary: "Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PACFord, Jamie
Summary: With his friend Charlotte, twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, escapes from a Seattle orphanage determined to find his mother Willow and discover his connection to the exotic film star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ford 2013Oliver, Jamie
Summary: Discovering a secret way into Waterfall Woods, which is out of bounds, Billy and his best friends discover a world of magic and unusual creatures who need their help, sending them on an unforgettable adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2023
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Summary: Jon Smith and the Covert One team begin a worldwide search to recover several high-ranking members of government, including Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert who possesses confidential passwords and codes that his kidnappers could use to reprogram drones to strike targets within the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FREHarrison, Jamie
Summary: "Jules Clement is back in Blue Deer, working as an archaeologist and private investigator. He's a mostly happy man: he's a new father, and he and his wife Caroline are building their dream house on an idyllic patch of river bottomland. But everything that can go wrong will, in terms of money, love, and murder. The horrible neighbors enlist Jules to spy on each other. The county hires him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: "From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRESumner, Jamie
Summary: When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOAPatterson, James
Summary: A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATJanes, Diane
Summary: Tom Dod's Aunt Hetty is worried -- three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. They might seem like tragic accidents, but Aunt Hetty isn't so sure. After all, all three took a stand against Reverend Pinder, the new vicar of St Agnes Church, whose controversial changes have divided the congregation. But is there really a killer among the parishioners? And while Fran...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Janes 2018Mosse, Kate
Summary: Joining her fellow English villagers in a misty churchyard on St. Mark's Eve, a taxidermist's daughter reflects on the mysterious downfall of her father's once-famous museum before discovering the body of a stranger whose death unlocks dark memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSBellaire, Jordie
Summary: Vampirella discovers a time-displaced Red Sonja while investigating the deaths of hikers in the Ural mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamite Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAMScarfarotti, Lorie
Summary: "Over the course of a week, thirteen-year-old track & field runner, Josie Tomaselli, confronts multiple challenges with humour, confusion, fear, "lady balls," and the support of her pre-race music playlist. As the big race approaches she's missing the support of her father, who is dying of cancer. While at first she refuses to acknowledge the possibility of losing him, in the end she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2022
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Summary: The story of two different families, headed by a former slave and by a Quaker, who settle in Texas during the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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Summary: "Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, she prefers gray weather to sunshine, and she hates the taste of garlic. When Emma-Rose's great-aunt Margo comes to visit from Romania, Emma-rose uncovers a dark family secret and has a sudden revelation. Could Emma-Rose be a real, live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC AMEHarris, Rosie
Summary: "Now in her seventies and widowed for the past three years, Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping and she invites him in for a cup of tea, it marks the start of a slow-burning friendship. Mary's affection for Bill grows steadily, despite his failing health and repeated attempts to interfere by her scheming daughter-in-law. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARKilpack, Josi S
Summary: When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she must be a literary woman. Harriet's sister, Catharine, worries she will lose her identity in marriage, but she is determined to preserve her independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILKilpack, Josi S.
Summary: Young author Walter Scott is desperately in love with Mina, but after she rejects his marriage proposal, Walter travels to England, where he meets and courts a young Frenchwoman, Charlotte Carpenter and discovers there is a difference between a man's first love and his best love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILHarris, Robie H.
Summary: A young girl and her father walk through familiar streets on a brilliant, sun-drenched day. When they reach a park, the girl lets go of her father's hand. It is time for her to journey out on her own. As her father keeps watch, she finds an unfamiliar place--an extraordinary forest that blooms around her, lush and larger than life. She plays among gigantic leaves, discovers treasures, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARGates, Eva
Summary: "They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé and his overbearing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GATCullum, Jared
Summary: "Katya and her Meema are spending another summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she's ever seen... an enormous kodiak bear with a gentle heart and a knack for fishing. But when Katya must suddenly return home to Seattle, the two are torn apart, leaving Kodi to do whatever it takes to reunite with his fragile human friend....
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CULNixon, Rosie
Summary: When fashion boutique worker Amber Green is mistakenly offered a job as assistant to infamous, jet-setting 'stylist to the stars' Mona Armstrong, she hits the ground running, helping to style some of Hollywood's hottest (and craziest) starlets. As awards season spins into action Mona is in hot demand and Amber's life turned upside down. Suddenly she catching the attention of two very different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIXPechaček, Jared
Summary: "A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passage, a delightfully mysterious and intriguingly weird medieval fantasy unlike anything you've read before. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." -Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024