Simons, Donna Searight.
Summary: "In 1913, Paul Weyburn and his fellow copper miners have tolerated dangerous working conditions for too long. Some of their workmates are being maimed or killed thousands of feet underground. . .which one of them will be next? Paul leads some of the miners on a labor strike to bring attention to the dangers of blasting and drilling copper for low pay. Marie, his wife, struggles to raise their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Publishing 2013
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Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Seeking to avenge the murder of her true love while on a dredge ship searching for gold, fifteen-year-old captain Poe Blythe becomes the architect of new defenses designed to destroy her enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CONBrogan, 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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Summary: In 1842, every resident of Copper Harbor, MI disappeared without a trace. In 2019, Bill Hitze and his son Brandon make a gruesome discovery while fishing on Lake Superior that starts to shed light on the old mystery. According to Professor Stephanie Crowe, an Ojibwa legend predicts that the town's residents will be lost again. Together, Bill and Stephanie strive to discover the truth about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing Group 2022
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Summary: "Susan B. Ellingson (SB to those who know her) publishes a struggling newspaper with the help of a retired librarian. Near the mining town of Iron, Minnesota, waters split three ways along the Laurentian Divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. When a corporation seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holy Cow! Press 2023
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Summary: "It was a different time and place . . . the Civil War had destroyed most everything they knew. Determined to begin anew, men came west in droves, lured by the promise of riches in the goldfields. It was into this melee of madness that Elijah McCain rode, committed to fulfilling a covenant to his recently departed wife. He came from years serving as an officer in the bloodiest war to date in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, are headed to California, where their search for a lost journal takes them into the history of Gold Rush. The journal follows young James Spencer, of the Sagamore Mining Company, on a spectacular journey from staid Boston, up the Sacramento River to the Mother Lode. During his search for a "lost river of gold,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TraverPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Nix, David
Summary: "Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far Yellowstone, his two best friends, Gus Rivers and Stacy Blue, show up with a dilemma. Miners at South Pass City are getting murdered by a man or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: "What's the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. He's been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents' new diner and, as the only Asian in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIMIchaso, Chelsea
Summary: "Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can't pretend to be optimistic about it--things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened. But then Savannah finds a note in Piper's locker inviting Piper to a meeting of their school's wilderness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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Summary: "Oliver loves mountain biking on rocky, wooded trails. And he has an unlikely partner--his much older half sister Morgan. One summer evening while out with their dog Digby, Oliver tries to impress Morgan by leading her down a new trail he claims to know. They end up at the bottom of a canyon with no choice but to push their bikes up the steep trail. Then disaster strikes. Morgan slips and badly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books 2023
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Summary: "Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something....
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2018
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Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: Rui has one goal in mind, honing her magic to avenge her mother's death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet, had he been born with magic. Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble, and the human world will be next if the King is not found. When an accident causes Rui's power to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TANAbnett, Dan.
Summary: The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain. Tensions are mounting, old rivalries are coming to the fore, people are dying - And then the Doctor's old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Or does it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABNMedina, K. T.
Summary: "Tess Hardy thought she had put Luke, her violent ex-husband, firmly in her past. Then he calls from Cambodia, where he is working as a mine-clearer, and there's something in his voice she hasn't heard before: Fear. Two weeks later, he's dead. Against her better judgment, Tess is drawn to Cambodia and to the killing fields. Keeping her relationship to Luke a closely guarded secret, Tess joins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDHickam, Homer H.
Summary: Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICLucido, Aimee
Summary: A family dinner gets out of hand as guest after guest arrives with a different pasta request.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUCSerle, Rebecca
Summary: "We've been waiting for an hour." That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed." At one point or another, we've all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we'd like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SERBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: Bianca Cooper escapes into the world of Minecraft after getting into a terrible car accident. Soon, however, she realizes she is trapped inside the game, and the in-game characters who have been attacking her resemble figures from her real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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Summary: Growing up blaming her mother after the mysterious disappearance of her beloved nanny, an embittered woman is forced to return home decades later when the discovery of human remains forces her to question everything she thought she knew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019