Hodgson, Antonia.
Summary: London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don’t hang and Tom’s damned if he’ll be the first. He may not be much of a gentleman, but he is innocent. He just always finds his way into a spot of bad luck. It’s hard to say when Tom’s troubles began. He was happily living in sin with his beloved, Kitty Sparks — though their neighbors were certainly less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HODBayard, Louis
Summary: "A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton , or fiction--of any era--that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." --A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln , the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYHoneywell, Antonia
Summary: ""Powerful, haunting, and beautiful," (M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts) The Ship is a luminous and genre-defying debut novel that follows a young woman's coming of age in a world where she has no future. London burned for three weeks. And then it got worse ... Lalla has grown up sheltered from the chaos amid the ruins of civilization. But things are getting more dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONBayard, Louis
Summary: "A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYIturbe, Antonio
Summary: "In the 1920s, long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an accomplished pilot. Along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, he was chosen to pioneer new mail routes across the globe. No distance was too far and no mountain too high -- each letter had to reach its destination. The three friends soared through the air, while a world torn apart by wars and political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITUAntony, Steve
Summary: It is bedtime and Mr. Panda carefully reminds his friends of the things that they need to do like brushing their teeth, and taking a bath before settling down for the night--but sometimes Mr. Panda can be absentminded, and Lemur has to remind him which bed is his.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: "From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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Summary: Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate. In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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Summary: There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the bullet is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M CONStilton, Geronimo
Summary: While celebrating his birthday with his family, Geronimo realizes someone has replaced all of his money with counterfeit bills and sets out to find the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STIRodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODDe Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: Investigating the death of a duchess in 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi is assisted by Brigadier Maione to connect the victim's demise to her associates in the Neapolitan privileged social circles and the local fascist elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEGSummary: Pierre is a ballroom-dance instructor with courtly manners whose pupils tend to be well-heeled teenagers. Partly as a dare and partly as a joke, he is offered the job of supervising a South Bronx high school detention class, where the students regard him as a visitor from the moon. They resist him, but he fascinates them, and before long, Pierre has talked them into learning a few steps. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: One day, gravity on Earth suddenly became a fraction of what it is now. Twenty years later, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. And to Willa Fowler, who was born just after G-day, it's pretty awesome. You can fly through the air! I mean, sure, you can also die if you jump too high. So you just don't jump too high. And maybe don't get mixed up in your dad's secret plan to bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HENDe Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: As Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime lurks terrible poverty and blinding desperation. In a luxurious apartment on the Mergellina Beach the bodies of a fascist militia officer and his wife have been found. The woman has had her throat cut while the man has been stabbed over sixty times. Seemingly, the hands of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014
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Summary: "A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch. Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie's back in Italy, pining for the woman he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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Summary: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2015
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Summary: Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret since his superiors are preparing for a state visit from Benito Mussolini.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014
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Summary: In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner, Maione. Contentment for Ricciardi proves as elusive as clues to the latest crime he has been asked to investigate -- amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2017
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Summary: "Shhh! Pablo is asleep. This is his last night inside the shell. Tomorrow he'll come out. But he's very shy so he starts with just a very little hole ... Tap tap!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2021
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Summary: "You can . . . be brave, challenge yourself, overcome your fears, be kind, be YOU! Come on an amazing journey with fourteen young people as they grow from birth to eighteen, learning new skills, exploring new worlds, standing up for their own and others' rights, and following their dreams. Created in consultation with real young adults, Alexandra Strick's groundbreaking narrative will inspire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STRSummary: Miami's top mob enforcer Cuda sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organization he's spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss Estelle is putting a young runaway's life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption, both for himself and his family, before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022