Abdul-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 2015Aslam, 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 RAHMcAdam, Tash
Summary: "In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sister's death."-- Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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Summary: "Achilles Kallis vowed that he'd do whatever it took to claw his way into Olympus's inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize... or for the sparks that fly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, nonbinary teen Brick must rescue the crew of the spaceship they snuck onto when it is taken over by pirates."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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Summary: Exiled from his homeland of Norway as a boy, Erik Thorvladsson wants nothing more than to honor his father's legacy and to figure out where he belongs in the world. Navigating natural disasters, violent clashes, and banishment, he seeks his fortunes in an Iceland on the brink of change. When a conflict over property erupts into violence, Erik is outlawed from the country for three years and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis, W1-Media, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROEBrooks, Karen (Karen Ruth)
Summary: "Mallory Bright is the only daughter of London's most ingenious locksmith and has apprenticed with her father since childhood. After scandal destroys her reputation, Mallory has returned to her father's home and lives almost as a recluse, ignoring the whispers of their neighbors. But Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster and a frequent client of Mallory's father, sees potenial in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Forensic psychologist Claire Markwood has experienced her share of disaster. But nothing could prepare her for her sister, Darcy, going missing. Claire rushes to the butterfly sanctuary where Darcy has been working, prepared to do what she does best--work the clues. But her sister, along with her car and some of the sanctuary's rarest species of butterflies, has seemingly vanished without a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
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Summary: "1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth--"the queen mother"--shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it's no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the "Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel. Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Harper 2020Kondazian, Karen.
Summary: A novel based on the life of Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst, a woman who lived as a man in the old west and became a renowned stagecoach driver for Wells Fargo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hansen 2012
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Summary: This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Russell 2011Ellis, Karen
Summary: One of the few black kids on his Brighton Beach block, Titus "Crisp" Crespo was raised by his white mother and his Russian grandparents. He has two legacies from his absent father, Mo: his weird name and his brown skin. Crisp has always been the odd kid out, but a fundamentally good kid, with a bright future. But one impulsive decision triggers a horrible domino effect--an arrest, no reason...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLJennings, Karen
Summary: "In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police department. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from their land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions: Was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2024
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Summary: In this world, Dr Charlotte Stone is an expert psychologist, helping to catch serial killers. In the next world, Charlotte's ghostly lover - wrongly executed killer Michael Garland - is facing death yet again: the ultimate annihilation of his soul. Can Charlie prove Michael's innocence and rescue him from total oblivion? A stranger has turned up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia - a man who could be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2015
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Summary: "After completing her tours with the Marines in Iraq, Molly Sutton knew she could take down any bad guy she met. But when a family tragedy exposes the dark side of her local police, she joined up with her former CO Burke Broussard, who left New Orleans PD to set up a private investigative service for people who couldn't find justice elsewhere. Gabe Hebert saw the toll that working for the NOPD...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: A lonely nineteen-year-old working at a local pool hall accepts an invitation from her charismatic coworker to take revenge on a creepy customer, leading to an amazing friendship but also an introduction to pills and hustling to maintain the high.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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Summary: From the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother's suspicious death. A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London's art world to learn the truth behind her brother's murder... Edwin is dead. That's what Inspector Matthew Hallam of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODDTraviss, Karen.
Summary: "HALO: GLASSLANDS saw a very different development in the war that Earth has been fighting for so very long. With terrible losses on both sides, finally open hostilities have ended. But though a fragile peace has been established between Earth and the peoples of the Covenant, forces on both sides make that peace precarious. A schism among the Sangheili is gaining strength, with a splinter group...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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Summary: "Vibrant historic Yellowstone National Park comes to life in this romantic mystery about a man hiding the truth, braving the west to become something more--and the woman who must confront his deception"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Barnett 2019Bass, Karen
Summary: When Jo McNair is one minute late for her curfew, her controlling father locks her out. Wandering the streets, she has no money and nowhere to sleep. She meets someone who says they're with a group working with at-risk kids, helping them get back on their feet-- and walks into a kidnapper's trap. Now Jo and several other teens are being held prisoner; their captors drug them regularly and force...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BASDionne, Karen
Summary: "Two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: Christmas is Emmie's first love, and this year she can't wait to share her favorite traditions with her boyfriend, Grant. When Grant's hectic work schedule has him more 'Bah Humbug' than 'Ho, Ho, Ho,' Emmie creates a holiday-themed scavenger hunt to help him find his Christmas spirit. At the end of the journey, Grant will arrive at the charming town of Christmas Point where she's planned a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019