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Summary: Brief text and illustrations recreate a ride on a merry-go-round.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CREFriis, Agnete
Summary: "Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRIStein, Triss
Summary: Erica Donato is researching the 1930s when Brownsville, New York, was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. Two young women are found murdered. One of them, Savanna, had helped Erica at the local library. Erica digs deeper than necessary into her research and encounters an apparent derelict white man, a vengeful rejected girlfriend, the role of boxing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECrimi, Carolyn.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Penny Rose has just moved to a new town, and so far the robots she builds herself are her only company. But with just a bit of magic, everything changes: she becomes best friends with Lark, has the chance to join a secret science club, and discovers that her robots are alive. Penny Rose hardly remembers how lonely she used to feel. But then a fateful misstep forces her to choose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CRIWilliams, Cress
Summary: After retiring his alter-ego Black Lightning years earlier to take care of his family, a high school principal is forced to become the masked vigilante again as crime and corruption overrun his community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLACrimi, Carolyn.
Summary: One deep, dark night, as all of the monsters are preparing for bed, Little Baby Mummy bravely searches for his mother until he sees a truly terrifying creature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CriWilliams, Cress
Summary: After retiring his alter-ego Black Lightning years earlier to take care of his family, a high school principal is forced to become the masked vigilante again as crime and corruption overrun his community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLAFries, Hannah
Summary: "Fiona Lee's charming illustrations invites little ones to celebrate a wonderful tree, learn its name, and say thank you for the tree's joyful, natural gifts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2021
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Summary: Anna doesn't fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university, not with the family she left behind, and definitely not with Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He's everything she's not--rich, tailored to precision, impossible to read--and before long Anna is hooked, desperate to hold his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PowerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWFriis, Agnete
Summary: Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades:...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRIFriis, Agnete
Summary: Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it--but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours--sometimes days--at a time and leave her physically and psychically drained. After one particularly bad...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRIKrebs, Chrissie
Summary: A bear reluctantly becomes a wizard when a magic wand crashes into his head, and he uses his powers to protect the forest animals from an evil wolf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KRE (Graphic novel)Fries, Claudia.
Summary: Dr. Fox, Henrietta Hen, and Nick Hare are worried when a pig moves into their building, but they are pleasantly surprised at what a good neighbor he turns out to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC FRIPrins, Mark
Summary: "In this wickedly sharp, propulsive debut, a classicist must outmaneuver her manipulative mentor. Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University, under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. Yet shortly before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career-and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Driven by what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRICombs, Harry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCrais, Robert
Summary: "A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crais 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: The extraordinary new crime novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it-and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group (USA), Inc. 2011
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Crisp, Marty.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sam, a passenger on the Titanic's maiden sea voyage, volunteers to help care for the dogs in the ocean liner's kennel and becomes fast friends with the Irish setter of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CRIVan Meter, Crissy
Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020