Omotoso, Yewande
Summary: "Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires. Sworn enemies, the two share a hedge and a deliberate hostility, which they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 0000
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Summary: "Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires. Sworn enemies, the two share a hedge and a deliberate hostility, which they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OMOBierce, Ambrose
Summary: This volume of selected stories represents an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm, irony and element of surprise, they differ from the fiction admired in Ambrose Bierce's time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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Summary: Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back at 52 Queen Street, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARBierce, Ambrose
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 BIEParry, Ambrose
Summary: "Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2019
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Summary: "Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARRylant, Cynthia
Summary: Motor Mouse takes a hot air balloon ride with his brother Valentino and neighbor Horatio, decides to teach Valentino to drive a car, and spends a day with Valentino at the Funfair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RYLAmbrose, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1998
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Summary: It is bedtime for Albie the warthog, but he would rather play with the other animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Contents: The death of Halpin Frayser -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch --One summer night -- The moonlit road -- A diagnosis of death -- Moxon's master -- A tough tussle -- One of twins -- The haunted valley -- A jug of syrup --Staley Fleming's hallucination -- A resumed identity -- A baby tramp -- The night-doings at 'Deadman's' -- Beyond the wall -- A psychological shipwreck --The middle toe of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildside Press 1909
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEBenjamin, Cynthia.
Summary: Pictures and simple text depict forest animals' tracks in the snow as they rush to their homes during a winter storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1994
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Summary: Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman and has any power of her own, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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Summary: "Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman and has any power of her own, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2014
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Summary: From the author of An Amish Christmas and A Plain & Fancy Christmas comes a heartwarming novel of marriage and family, new beginnings and poignant homecomings--just in time for the holidays. After her husband, Shep, loses his latest job, Jennie Davis is grateful to be in a car en route to beautiful Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Shep has inherited a house from a distant cousin, along...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Lord, Cynthia
Summary: On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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Summary: During their trail ride on all-terrain vehicles, Hot Rod Hamster and his friends stop to help Grandpa Dog and two puppies, whose vehicle has tipped over and gotten stuck in the mud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Follows Hamster and his friend Dog as they prepare for a birthday party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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Summary: Fearless Franco's famous Monster Truck Mania has come to town, and Hot Rod Hamster and his friends are searching for the very best ride at the fair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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Summary: A hamster, with the help of a canine junkyard dealer and his mouse assistants, builts a hot rod and drives it in a race against some very large dogs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2006
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Summary: "From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past , and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZIOzick, Cynthia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print Print 2004