Jama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOXGoss, James
Summary: At a remote clinic in Italy, a lonely girl writes to her mother about the secrets and strange faceless creatures that rise from the sea that are found there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOSMosse, 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 MOSBoltanski, Christophe
Summary: In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLBryon, Lucie
Summary: What happened last night? Ella can't seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger's mansion, and she sure as heck doesn't know why she's woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie's nest of objects that aren't her own. And she can't stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can't tell about her sudden penchant for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 BRYBijan, Donia
Summary: "When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIJGruley, Bryan
Summary: "Summertime in Bleak Harbor means tourists, overpriced restaurants, and the Dragonfly Festival. One day before the much-awaited and equally chaotic celebration, Danny Peters, the youngest member of the family that founded the town five generations ago, disappears. When Danny's mother, Carey, and stepfather, Pete, receive a photo of their brilliant, autistic, and socially withdrawn son tied to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY GRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCoss Aquino, Melissa
Summary: "Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls--more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system that never valued them. For too long, all they had was each other. That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home, providing stability and support, and playing an outsize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AQUBrogan, Earl
Summary: "Roy Shea has never been one to make waves. But he's noticed some changes in his beloved Upper Peninsula, changes he's not entirely comfortable with. When two strangers come to town, Roy finds himself in more trouble than he ever bargained for-as do the strangers, as the ghosts of the Peninsula take a sudden interest in human affairs. Before long, the supernatural and natural, the past and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBruen, Ken.
Summary: PI Jack Taylor is called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K whom he remembers meeting at an airport. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBliss, Bryan
Summary: "Ever since her father died three years ago, Julie has had a professional wrestler run a constant commentary on her life that only she can hear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BLIDavis, Bryan
Summary: In the third Dragons of Starlight book Koren, Jason, Randall, and their newfound friends continue to battle the dragon rulers, while they also attempt to escape Starlight forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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Summary: Jason Masters does not believe that dragons take people to another realm as slaves until his own brother is taken, but once through the portal he meets Koren, a slave struggling to destroy a black egg prophesied to doom all mankind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2010
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Summary: "On her thirtieth birthday, Gwendolyn Reese receives an unexpected present from her widowed Aunt Bea: a grand tour of Europe in the company of Bea's Sudoku and Mahjongg Club. The prospect isn't entirely appealing. But when the gift she is expecting--an engagement ring from her boyfriend--doesn't materialize, Gwen decides to go."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2012
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Summary: A mysterious death, unusual car accident, and anonymous threats have one thing in common-- the vicitms are all members of the Good Novel bookstore's secret selection committee. Set in Paris, this tale combines mystery, romance, and French theology and literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COSRobbins, Christopher (Christopher C.)
Summary: Row, row, row your boat . . . in Michigan! The sights and scenery of Michigan spring to life in this adorable twist on the favorite children’s song. Each die-cut page of the layered board book reveals an imaginary boat sailing past Lake Michigan, Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, Windmill Island, and more! A delightful children’s introduction to the iconic places of Michigan. And when you’re...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familius 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Qualitas Pub. 2010
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Summary: "A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it - in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works at the only functioning space program in the world, which just happens to be in Nigeria. With Europe, Asia, and the U.S. knocked off-line, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLUWilson, Scott Bryan
Summary: "Eating candy nonstop and watching TV all day sounds great . . . until you actually do it, as the kids of Bayport High find out when all the adults vanish, and the world's greatest (high school) detectives--the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew!--have to team up to solve the mystery! Whether it's going under cover, sneaking out at night, chasing weird buses, or following a strange smell, they know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamite Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC NANChristopher, Matt
Summary: "When his teammate Stu is injured during practice, Manny promises to keep quiet so he can play, but then Stu starts acting funny, and Manny struggles with whether to keep his silence or break his promise and let his team down" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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Summary: "Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOPriest, Christopher
Summary: In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed--annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIRussell, Christopher
Summary: In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master, along with half of the manor's prized mastiffs, to France, where he must fend for himself when both his master and the dogs are lost at the decisive battle of Crécy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2006