Jinich, Pati.
Summary: Presents a collection of recipes which use simple methods and everyday ingredients to make Mexican dishes suitable for family meals and holiday celebrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5972 JINThomson, Pari
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Daisy knows it's up to her to find Ma-- but someone is hunting her across London. Someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. So when Daisy flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely believe her eyes--she has stepped out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023
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We have 2 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Vidich, Paul
Summary: In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he "jumped or fell" from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. As his wife and children grieve, the details of his death remain buried for twenty-two years. With the release of the Rockefeller Commission report on illegal CIA activities in 1975, LSD is linked to Wilson's death, and suddenly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VIDMiller, Marcus
Contents: Hylife (6:59) -- B's River (6:49) -- Preacher's Kid (Song For William H) (5:46) -- We Were There (6:49) -- Papa? Was A Rolling Stone (6:07) -- I Still Believe I Hear (7:06) -- Son Of Macbeth (6:12) -- Prism (Interlude) (0:30) -- Xtraordinary (6:14) -- Water Dancer (7:28) -- I Can't Breathe (5:09).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2015
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Baty, Chris.
Summary: Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month, has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling. Chris pulls from over 15 years of results-oriented writing experience to pack this compendium with new tips and tricks, ranging from week-by-week quick reference guides to encouraging advice from authors, and much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Usitalo, Kath
Summary: To the Anishinaabe-Ojibwa people it was a gathering place, a sacred burial ground, and the home of the Great Spirit Gitchie Manitou. Throughout the 1600s French voyageurs, explorers, missionaries, and fur traders arrived at Mackinac Island. Its strategic location in the straits between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas made it a military outpost the British and Americans found worth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reedy Press, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.3 USIAbbas, Fatin
Summary: "A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABBHadlow, Janice
Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HADCallahan, Patti
Summary: "It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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We have 5 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Callahan, Patti
Summary: "The love story of C.S. Lewis and his wife, Helen Joy Davidman Gresham, was improbable--and seemingly impossible. Their Eros-story led to some of Lewis's greatest works, yet Joy is most commonly known for how she died. Becoming Mrs. Lewis allows us to see how this brilliant and passionate woman lived--and why she stole Jack's heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CALCallahan, Patti
Summary: Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there's no way she can refuse. Megs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CALGarcia, Kami.
Summary: When Link joined his best friend, Ethan Wate, on a quest through a mysterious network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, he knew the journey would be dangerous. But returning home to Gatlin, South Carolina was just the beginning...Wounded during a climactic battle, Link discovers that tending his injuries won't be as simple as visiting a doctor and that healing his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audiobooks 2011
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Burton, Jaci
Summary: Lucy Fairchild is a confident, successful lawyer and heiress to the Fairchild fortune. Her father thinks he can choose who she'll marry, which Lucy finds ridiculous. She might be thirty and still single, but she's perfectly capable of finding her own man.Jake Dalton owns a construction company and has built his life from nothing to something he can be proud of. His father might have once...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Fryer, Janice.
Summary: Make every Christmas a cookie craft Christmas! The holidays offer just the right combination of cold weather and family togetherness for cookie crafters to elevate their skills to showstopping new heights. With more than 60 new Christmas cookie designs, along with festive New Year's cookies and lovely Hanukkah treats, Cookie Craft Christmas delivers colorful inspiration to cookie decorators...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing, LLC 2009
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Hallett, Janice
Summary: "Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALThompson, Janice.
Summary: Kat Jennings and Scott Murphy don't just play two people who are secretly in love on a television sitcom—they are also head over heels for each other in real life. When the lines between reality and TV land blur, they hope they can keep their relationship under wraps. But when Kat's grandmother, an aging Hollywood starlet with a penchant for wearing elaborate evening gowns from Golden Age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Davis, Patti
Summary: "A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAVIS DAVLacy, Patti.
Summary: A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Dallas hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Wallenfang, Patti.
Summary: "Wild" flowers featuring animal print petals. Bold bracelets, funky flip-flops, and hip purses. Who knew that duct tape could create such cool projects? American teens have embraced this hot trend and will go ga-ga for this creative guide to crafting with duct tape. More than 30 projects for gals and guys include wallets, jewelry, locker decor, flowers, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leisure Arts 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.5 WALGarcia, Kami.
Summary: There were no surprises in Gatlin County . We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUC RATED PG-13Cate, Annette.
Summary: A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CATTchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NUT HOLAttenberg, Jami
Summary: Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend, and therapist, Andrea Bern joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of her newborn niece's heartbreaking ailment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017