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Summary: The Dawn Patrol, a close-knit group of surfers, not only ride waves together but have one another's backs out of the water. It's the life Boone loves, all he wants. When one of their own is murdered and another surfer, a young punk from the Rockpile Crew, stands accused, the small world of Pacific Beach is rocked to its core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.6 FIC BARBarbash, Tom
Summary: An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination. It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARGarbera, Katherine
Summary: "As a lonely foster kid, Serafina Conte sought refuge in handmaking journals -- and writing her wishes within their pages. Now, in the quirky new age store she shares with her two best friends, Sera's intentions have paid off. Her journals are in the spotlight -- and rumored to manifest great things. Whether it's witchy skills, real magic, or not, Sera's finally ready to be the leading lady of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GARBarnard, Robert.
Summary: Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarber, Angel
Summary: Eric Wallace is sick of secrets. As a Black queer teen, Eric's efforts to conform to fit his parents' and classmates' expectations have left him exhausted by the summer after senior year. When Eric finds out his pastor father has been cheating on his mother, his picture-perfect family crumbles. Eric rages at the double standards he's been held to. He travels to Los Angeles with his best friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARGraham, Winston
Summary: "Cornwall, 1798-1799. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliament--his time divided between London and Cornwall, his heart divided about his wife, Demelza. His old feud with George Warleggan still flares--as does the illicit love between Morwenna and Drake, Demelza's brother. Before the new century dawns, George and Ross will be drawn together by a loss greater than their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2008Graham, Winston
Summary: Tired from a war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead. But his sympathy for the destitute farmers of the district leads him to rescue an urchin girl and take her home -- an act which alters the whole course of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2015Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "After a fire decimates her studio, including the seven billboard-size paintings for her next show, a young, no-name painter is left with an impossible task: recreate her art in three months--or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into an exclusive retreat in upstate New York famous for its outrageous revelries and glamorous artists. And notorious as the place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOUCameron, Barbara
Summary: Ever since her stepmother brought her a snow globe of the New York City skyline, Annie has wanted to visit the beautiful, big city. Since the time of her rumschpringe is nearing, the family decides a visit is a good idea. But others are not as thrilled with her interest in the Big Apple. Aaron has long been attracted to Annie and is sure he is in love. As he watches her engage in big city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC CAMAllan, Barbara.
Summary: While dealing with morning sickness, her bipolar mother, and the citywide antiques bazaar, Brandy Borne must also deal with murder when a ninety-year-old Russian widow donates a priceless antique that is not what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLBaker, Barbara
Summary: On a Saturday evening, the members of a bear family busy themselves with cleaning up the kitchen, taking baths, and reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR GREEN BAKHambly, Barbara
Summary: "New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KINLehman, Barbara.
Summary: A book about a book, a magical red book, without any words, and the friendship that develops around it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott LehmanO'Neal, Barbara
Summary: From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth. Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news ... Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It's what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction O'Neal 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P ONEHambly, Barbara
Summary: "Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad -- the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime. Since Cain can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers LTD 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2016Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHambly, Barbara.
Summary: "When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the Church of St. Clare Pieds-Nus with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, his wife, Lydia, knows of only one person to call: the vampire Don Simon Ysidro. Old friend and old adversary, he is the only one who can help Lydia protect her unconscious, fevered husband from the vampires of Paris. Why James has been attacked --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2015Lehman, Barbara.
Summary: In this wordless picture book, a boy finds a mysterious key which leads him on an adventure one rainy day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Lehman 2007Allan, Barbara.
Summary: Moving back in with her mother, Vivian, Brandy Borne finds her life in the town of Serenity anything but serene, especially when their antiques booth at the mall is overwhelmed with holiday business and Vivian's former flame, an antiques dealer, is foundmurdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllan, Barbara.
Summary: When her "charmingly eccentric" mother Vivian is accused of killing mousy-haired busybody Connie Grimes after they were both involved in a bit of a scuffle, Brandy Borne must find the truth, which immerses her in a scandal involving questionable antiques and dark family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLHambly, Barbara
Summary: "April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he is saved from being hanged by Valentina Taggart, wife of the wealthy landowner of Rancho Perdition. After Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she in turn calls on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019