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Peck, Richard

Summary: In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PEC

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PEC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PEC

Peck, Richard

Summary: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PEC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PEC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 1998

Townsend, Jack

Summary: "Night-shift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learnn that an annoying new-day-shift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack fins himself...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Townsend Writing Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOW

Walton, Stewart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.18 Walto

Clark, Tracy P.

Summary: Sitting in cold cars for hours, serving lowlifes with summonses . . . being a P.I. means riding out a lot of slow patches. But sometimes the most familiar paths can lead straight to danger--like at Cass's go-to diner, where new delivery guy Jung Byson wants to enlist her expertise. Jung's friend, Tim Ayers, scion of a wealthy Chicago family, has been found dead, floating in Lake Michigan near...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Cameron, W. Bruce

Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron once again captures the bravery and determination of a very good dog in the gripping sequel to A Dog's Way Home, the acclaimed novel that inspired the hit movie! Bella was once a lost dog, but now shelives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships in her past. Then a weekend camping trip turns into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Salvatore, R. A.

Summary: "There's a lot that Jarlaxle doesn't know: is he the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, can he even find a way to get out, and beyond his immediate predicament, could he possibly escape the ice caverns and get help for his friends? However, what Jarlaxle does know is that if he plans to come back--if Catti-brie, Entreri, and Zaknafein are to have any hope of surviving--he's going...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAL

Summary: Travel with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from John O'Groats to Cape Town descending through Western Europe and Africa before arriving at the southern most tip of the continent. On their journey their endurance, biking skills and friendship are tested to the limit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LON

Graham, Cliff.

Summary: In a time of Israel's greatest need, an elite band of King David's warriors known as the Mighty Men are all that stands between their people and destruction at the hands of the ruthless Philistines. Part two of the Lion of War series brings the actions of those heroes and the terror of the ancient battlefields to life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Kagawa, Julie.

Summary: Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan is deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, becomes a prisoner of the Winter faery queen, and loses her own fey powers. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey--ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her--and trusting a seeming traitor...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAG

Klassen, Julie

Summary: "Return to Ivy Hill in The Ladies of Ivy Cottage as friendships deepen, romances blossom, and mysteries unfold. Living with the two Miss Groves in Ivy Cottage, impoverished gentlewoman Rachel Ashford is determined to earn her own livelihood . . . somehow. When the village women encourage her to open a subscription library with the many books she has inherited or acquired through donations,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KLA

Summary: In 1941, Stalin appeals to Russian nationalism to convince millions to take up arms against German invaders, among them a sniper named Lyudmila Pavlichenko who inspires others to fight and survive. In Canada a young woman named Veronica Foster becomes Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl and brings women into the workforce. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Allies have the mighty Americans on their...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: By 1945, propaganda machines that had geared populations for war now have to prepare them for peace. With the beginning of the Cold War, enemies become partners and allies now foes. The "free French" retake their beloved city of Paris under the leadership of Charles De Gaulle and Nazi collaborators are outed and publicly humiliated. Meanwhile American sleuths go searching for "evidence" to...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: When Adolf Hitler begins his campaign of conquest in 1939, most Germans actually don't want war. But Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels use every tool of propaganda to change their minds. German pride is invoked to justify the invasion of Poland and France. Messages of hatred are used to persuade Germans that minorities should be stripped of their rights, deported or sent to...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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McCann, John

Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for completing twenty-five rubber band loom projects, including jewelry, hair accessories, and toys.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2014

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Summary: Musical excerpts from various Disney productions, featuring popular heroines.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DIS

Salvatore, R. A.

Summary: "Wily elf Drizzt Do'Urden has been around for 35 years, and he's a legend in the drow city Menzoberranzan for having escaped its evils. Here, the city is on the edge as the drow begin questioning rampant corruption and the very story of the city's founding, with Drizzt along for the ride to examine his role as father, friend, and quester."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAL

Clark, Tracy

Summary: While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Salvatore, R. A.

Summary: In the wake of the demon uprising and two years of peace, a Civil war is in the offing, and Jarlaxle and a small group of friends go on an expedition in search of Doum'wielle, the last wielder of the powerful sword known as "Cutter", in hopes that she may be the key to unlocking the sword's potential.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAL

Gray, Shelley Shepard

Summary: "Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of running a ranch on her own, Laurel Tracey decides to hire a convict--a man who's just scary enough to take care of squatters and just desperate enough to agree to a one year post. The years following the war have been hard on Laurel Tracey. Both her brother and her father died in battle, and her mother passed away shortly after receiving word of their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Casale, Anne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 CAS

Roper, Gayle G.

Summary: Cara Bentley's efforts to find her roots lead her to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where attorney Todd Reasoner helps her in her investigation, but it soon becomes clear that someone does not welcome her digging into the past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROP

Cabot, Meg

Summary: Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison still finds it hard to believe that she's a real live PRINCESS OF GENOVIA. Not only does she get to live in an actual palace with her newly discovered family and two fabulous poodles (who all love her and think that she's anything but ordinary!) but she also gets her very own PONY! Of course, things aren't going exactly like she imagined. Her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAB

Clark, Tracy

Summary: Cops can make mistakes, even when they're not rookies. If anyone knows that it's Cass Raines, who took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation with an armed suspect. Deeply traumatized by the incident, Cass resigned from the Chicago PD, leaving one less female African-American on the force. Now she's the head of a one-woman private investigation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLAR

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