Walliams, David
Summary: "1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short. Armed gangs of drug-fueled youth rampage through the countryside as the nation descends into chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONNavin, Rhiannon
Summary: Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the table, Nina, a beautiful and restless teenager, vows her life will be different. When a strapping older man in a fancy car appears at school one day offering her luxuries her single mother cannot afford, Nina believes he's her ticket out of her dumpy little town. Ignoring the danger signs and her mother's constant pleas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHunter, Devin
Summary: "Time is running out for Grey and his squad. While they consistently rank in the top twenty players stuck in Fortnite Battle Royale, they need to be the top five to escape virtual reality and go home. Grey's team begins to fray apart, and he fears he won't be able to keep them together long enough to get the rank they need. With the season ending in a couple weeks, people are either giving up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019
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Summary: In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIWaid, Mark
Summary: Someone is meddling with Matt Murdock's mind! Daredevil undergoes urgent brain surgery when fellow Avenger Hank Pym enters his head to destroy sensory-deprivation robots implanted by Dr. Doom. The two men gain a new understanding of each other's struggles when the bots battle back, forcing Ant-Man to fight blind! Then, Daredevil's recovery hits a snag when he starts to question reality. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 DARGrayson, Devin K.
Summary: "Gifted doctor Cecelia Cobbina was once held in the highest regard by peers and patients alike. But that was before an incident in Africa changed her life forever. Now with the ability to process thoughts at the speed of light, she faces the unimaginable burden of literally having an answer for everything. As the truth of her origin slowly comes into focus, Cecelia must overcome her fears and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H1, an imprint of Humanoid, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OMNWilliams, Drew
Summary: "Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilliams, Fiona
Summary: "Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEWilliams, Sean
Summary: Seemingly returned from the dead, the assassin Starkiller, who has been purged of his memories, reunites with beautiful Imperial fighter pilot Juno Eclipse to fight back against Darth Vader and avoid permanent enslavement to the dark side of the Force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucasbooks 2010
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Summary: Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I France. Driving an ambulance for the Red Cross, she meets a charismatic British army surgeon whose persistent charm opens her heart to the possibility of love. As the war rages, Virginia falls into a passionate affair with the dashing Captain Simon Fitzwilliam,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Williams 2017Williams, Denise
Summary: "Divorce attorney RJ would never describe herself as romantic. But when she ends up officiating an unplanned wedding for a newly engaged couple in a park, her life is turned upside down. The video of the ceremony goes viral, and she finds herself in the unlikely position of being a sought-after local wedding officiant. Spending her free time overseeing "I dos" isn't her most strategic career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILWilliams, Mazarkis.
Summary: "There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that attacks young and old, rich and poor alike. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until you die in agony, or become a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence, the Pattern Master. Anyone showing the tell-tale marks is put to death; that is Emperor Beyon''s law...but now the pattern is running over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2011
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Summary: "Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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Summary: Exiled hero Justin Cord works to outmaneuver a power-hungry corporate Earth society that has launched an interplanetary war in order to regain control over the outer planets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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Summary: "Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2010
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Summary: Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2006
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Summary: "A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones-like twenty-something who discovers that she may have simply been looking for love -- and, ahem, pleasure -- in all the wrong places (aka: from men)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Dylan and Langston used to be best friends. After he moved away, Langston became a star R&B artist. He returns for visit and stays with Dylan and her family. They start to renew their friendship--and maybe see their relationship grow into something else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2022
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009
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Summary: "Mystery writer and dabbling recreational sleuth Sophie Katz is head over heels in love--with a three-bedroom Victorian. She's just got to have it, despite a few drawbacks. Her slimy ex is the Realtor. The rich, creepy seller wants her to join San Francisco's spirited Specter Society. And her first tour of the house reveals, well, a lifeless body clutching a cameo with a disturbing history of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2009
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Summary: "More than 400 years ago, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) sent his irrepressible optimist of a hero out to tilt at windmills-- and Don Quixote and his philosophical squire, Sancho Panza, still remain among the world's most popular and entertaining figures, as well as the archetypes for the tall, thin straight man and his short, stocky comic sidekick. In this terrific adaptation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013