Cander, Chris
Summary: In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CANSummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STASummary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDLupica, Mike.
Summary: Eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe follow clues to find Zach's missing baseball, signed by his favorite major league player, while competing in Spirit Week events at school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPLupica, Mike
Summary: "Someone is secretly renovating the basketball court at the local park, and Zach and Zoe are determined to find out who"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPZander, Joakim
Summary: Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: there are riots erupting on the streets of Stockholm and they appear to be connected with the disappearance of her brother, Fadi. Following rumors that Fadi was radicalized and died fighting for ISIS in Syria, Yasmine returns to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZANCandau, Brittany.
Summary: Peter Parker continues to adjust to his ever-changing life of family, friends, and being the Super Hero wall-crawler known as the amazing Spider-Man. Since gaining great power and great responsibility, Spidey has fought crime all over the city day in and day out and it's taken its toll on Peter's life. Gwen has moved on from their relationship. His old friend Harry Osborn has returned and plans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Book Group 2014
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Camden, Elizabeth.
Summary: The last thing Libby Sawyer and her father expected upon their return from their summer home was to find strangers inhabiting a house that had been in their family for decades. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family from Romania to the town of Colden, Massachusetts with a singular purpose: to claim the house willed to him long ago. Since neither party has any intention of giving up their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2012
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Gaider, David.
Summary: For Dragon Age newcomers, this comprehensive volume brings you up to speed on everything you need to know about the regions, religions, monsters, magic, and more! For dedicated fans, never before have the secrets of BioWare's epic fantasy been revealed so completely and so compellingly!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2013
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Summary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATEDCruz, Caris Avendaño
Summary: Swept into Engkantos, the land of gods and spirits, ten-year-old Marikit embarks on a quest to save her family from a sinister shadow god.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CRUCather, Willa.
Summary: Lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentieth century, in an epic novel that chronicles America's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2005
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Banner, Catherine.
Summary: Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world’s troubles. At the center of the island’s life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where over generations the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCantero, Edgar
Summary: "The summer of 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCrider, Bill.
Summary: Lizzie Randall, the preacher's daughter, is murdered. The men of the west Texas town are set on lynching Paco Morales, a Mexican teenager who happened to be in the vicinity. In the end justice is served. The list of suspects grows to include almost everyone in the story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Summary: A 1950s housewife living with her husband in an idealistic experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding troubling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DONCrider, Bill.
Summary: Short fiction from the author of the popular Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. In these 11 previously published tales, we meet a detective who also happens to be a werewolf; investigate two separate missing-animal cases; tag along with series characters Carl Burns (the amateur-sleuth English teacher) and Dan Rhodes; watch Elvis Presley hunting a vampire; and a handful of other interesting puzzles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Center, Katherine
Summary: "Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CENFinder, Joseph
Summary: "New York Timesbestselling author Joseph Finder returns with an explosive new thriller about a female judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her--and her family's--undoing. It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINFaris, Stephanie
Summary: Gabby's father has a podcast called Ghost Search, and this time they are investigating a haunted bookstore--ten-year-old Gabby does not believe in ghosts and always tries to debunk the hauntings, but this time she is not so sure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARHandler, David
Summary: After being hired to ghostwrite a new book about their family, Hoagy investigates a man claiming to be the Aintree sisters' father, who disappeared years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHandler, David
Summary: New York City ghostwriter-sleuth Stewart Hoag and his faithful neurotic basset hound, Lulu, investigate three murders that are linked by a stolen manuscript.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HANSummary: In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PG-13Summary: The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016