Harrington, Laura.
Summary: Outside the back window Alice can see the outlines of the garden, some of the furrows visible under the snow, stretching away in long thin rows. She can't imagine doing the garden without her dad. It's his thing; she's always thought of herself as his assistant at best. She can't imagine doing anything without her dad and she starts to feel like she can't breathe. And then she looks at him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Summary: When a photographer notices a ghost in her photos, she returns to the mansion where her photos were taken in the hopes of finding the truth. What she ends up discovering is that she and this mysteriously charming ghost are connected in more ways than one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kinonation 2014
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Fauré, Gabriel
Contents: Nocturne in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 1 (8:23) -- Impromptu No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 31 (3:24) -- Barcarolle No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 26 (5:11) -- Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 65 (8:54) -- Barcarolle No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 105 (5:08) -- Barcarolle No. 6 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (3:13) -- Barcarolle No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 90 (4:04) -- Barcarolle No. 2 in G Major, Op. 41 (7:14) -- Barcarolle No. 5...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Musical Concepts 2015
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Niven, Larry.
Summary: With an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, Doctor Toby Glyer and his partner William Connors must find a way to make contact with their wayward children -- the Briareus nanites -- and save the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVJortner, Maura
Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JORCheeks, Maura
Summary: "In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHEHarrington, Hannah.
Summary: Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcast--and nearly got someone killed. Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silence--to learn to keep her mouth shut, and to stop hurting anyone else. And if she thinks keeping secrets is hard, not speaking up when she's ignored, ridiculed and even attacked is worse. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2012
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Harrington, Jill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harbor Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 615 HARHarrington, Justine
Summary: "Lonely Planet's Texas is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the state has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Delight in live music at an Austin club, get lost in Big Bend National Park and visit NASA's Space Center in Houston; all with your trusted travel companion."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USASummary: Set against the golden age of Formula One racing in the 1970s, Rush is based on the true story of a spectacular sporting rivalry between English playboy James Hunt, and his structured, intelligent opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUS RATED RLaurain, Antoine
Summary: "Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red notebook with her jottings, which really makes him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAUMarra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Rouda, Kaira.
Summary: "The perfect home. The perfect family. The perfect lie. Jane Harris lives in a sparkling home in an oceanfront gated community in Orange County. It's a place that seems too beautiful to be touched by sadness. But exactly one year ago, Jane's oldest daughter, Mary, died in a tragic accident and Jane has been grief-stricken ever since. Lost in a haze of anti-depressants, she's barely even left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUHerrington, Lisa M.
Summary: "All living things on Earth need water to live. Learn more about out planet's most important natural resource."--cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J553.7 HERHarrington, C. C.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard, in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HARDole, Mayra
Summary: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community plan a surprise block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 DOLLatta, Nigel.
Summary: Do your kids sometimes make you feel like your head is going to explode? Have you ever yelled until you were hoarse? Do you ever have days when all you feel like doing is making a run for the airport? Why is it so hard to be the parent you thought you would be? For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2010
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Lalami, Laila
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LALMacCarald, Clara
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the atomic bomb. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMLalami, Laila
Summary: "The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens." What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LALAMI LALAvery, Lara
Summary: When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self, documenting moments great and small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AVECasey, Lara
Summary: "Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide ... [the author] offers wisdom from God's Word alongside lessons ... [she] has learned in her garden. Woven throughout is her personal story"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 248.4 CASSpencer, Lara.
Summary: Good Morning America co-anchor Lara Spencer is a life-long yard saler. She grew up happily following her mom to garage sales, auctions, flea markets, and thrift stores, and on the way, learned what to look for and how to turn those second-hand finds into stylish interior design. For Spencer, a former host of Antiques Roadshow, "junque" hunting is more than a hobby. She moonlights as an antiques...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 381 SPEPrescott, Lara
Summary: At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019