Vande Zande, Jeff
Summary: Rules of Order tells the story of Harvey Crowe, a community activist, who lives in what could be the last remaining high-rise building in a wrecked city. Cracks in the ground-floor apartments are appearing exponentially. The building's structural strength can't possibly hold the load it bears. Crowe works to inform tenants on the upper floors that the weight of their possessions could bring the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montag Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Detroit Muscle is a fearless examination of family and of loss, a picaresque novel about putting these shattered pieces of our lives together again - to examine them, to understand them, and to see how, if at all possible, we can move past them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. This novel unites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bottom Dog Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANParent, Nancy
Summary: Fancy Nancy discovers a new talent for repairing broken toys in her neighborhood, but she must learn to keep her cool when her next patient is her beloved doll Marabelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: The author of Denton Little's Deathdate gives us a tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RUBTrasler, Janee.
Summary: Silly rhyming text invites young readers to join the chickies as they have their pictures taken and learn about opposites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperfestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD TRALange, Tracey
Summary: When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it's not easy. She deserted them all, and her high school sweetheart, five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LANMarks, Janae
Summary: Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARVasco, Irene
Summary: A woman explains to her son how she grew up in a remote village where almost no one could read and write, but she found a way to learn how when her sister began getting letters from a young doctor who used to live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VASMarks, Janae
Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Get ready for whimsical, woolly adventures in this collection of eight funny stories of everyone's favorite sheep by bestselling author Nancy Shaw and illustrator Margot Apple! Ride along with this crowd of mischievous, well-meaning sheep as they take a ride in a jeep, create chaos in a shop, and much more! Each adventure can be read aloud in five minutes, making it a perfect book for story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: When Frenchy gets in trouble one too many times, the Clancy's decide it's time for puppy school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: "On a snowy day, Nancy and her friends are stuck playing inside--but the plot thickens when Lionel's comic book goes missing! Don't worry, Detective Nancy is on the case." -- From dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SAXChance, Megan
Summary: The eve of destruction. After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAO'Connor, Jane
Summary: When Ms. Glass runs out of Backward Day ideas, Nancy comes up with a way to celebrate the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: When Nancy's class hosts a swap-and-shop, Nancy finds the perfect tutu, but her mother tells her she already has too many tutus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: "Told in rhyming text, Dog and Frogs are enjoying riding a log in the pond, but then Hog comes along and is not willing to share the log, or the lunch Dog has made. Hog wants it all, so Dog and Frog need to teach Hog a lesson about friendship and sharing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: "Putting a painful breakup behind her, Amy has come home to help revitalize Fairfield Orchard, its blossom-scented air and rows of trees framed by the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains. She doesn't have time for the handsome--distracting--professor who wants to dig into her family's history for his research"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CANYancey, Richard
Summary: The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others and now by ourselves. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YANCane, Tina
Summary: "Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CANYancey, Richard
Summary: Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds people together is gone. Cassie and her friends haven't seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YANHiggins, Jace
Summary: Sunny the bunny is finding it hard to say goodbye to home before she leaves for sleep away camp. When she decides to try new things at camp, Sunny discovers that new things can be fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGJance, J.A.
Summary: "Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest. With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter heading off for college, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady has her hands full when a puzzling new case hits her department, demanding every resource...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS JANBunce, Elizabeth C.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her fathers law books and her mums microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020