Mahmoud, Lena
Summary: Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2018
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Summary: "Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2024
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Summary: "As the eldest child in a large family, Pauline struggles to find her niche, and she longs for peace and quiet -- a charming graphic novel. Pauline lives with her mother, father, little brother and sister, and there's a new baby on the way. Her friends tell her she's lucky to be the eldest -- she's the one who gets new clothes and can stay up late -- but Pauline isn't so sure. In her busy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAHSummary: A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINParrish, Robin.
Summary: The return of NASA's first manned mission to Mars was supposed to be a momentous day. But when the crew loses touch with ground control before entry, things look bleak. Safe after a treacherous landing, the crew emerges to discover the unthinkable—every man, woman, child, and animal has vanished without a trace. Alone now on their home planet, the crew sets out to discover where everyone has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2009
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Parrish, Christa.
Summary: Deputy Benjamin Patil is the one to find the infant girl, hours old, abandoned in a field. When the mother can't be located, Ben and his wife, Abbi, seem like the perfect couple to serve as foster parents. But the newborn's arrival opens old wounds for Abbi and shines a harsh light on how much Ben has changed since a devastating military tour. Their marriage teeters on the brink and now they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: "Greta Russakoff needs some space from her overbearing family. Truman Belvedere needs a place to heal after a devastating heartbreak. The solution is obvious: Truman and Greta decide to swap houses for the month of December. Can a change of scenery be the start of something new?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParrish, Tommi
Summary: Parrish's emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author's themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. -- Amazon.com summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2017
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Summary: Following her mother's death and her father's abandonment, infant Sarah Graham was left to be raised by her emotionally distant grandmother. As a child, she turned to music for comfort, but an unplanned pregnancy and the birth of a stillborn baby put a screeching halt to her potentially brilliant career. Now twenty-seven, Sarah lives hard in an attempt to escape her past. But when her estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOT RATED PG-13Parrish, Christa.
Summary: Ruled by fear and deep wounds, teenager Molly Fisk stays hidden away in the tiny tourist-town museum she and her mother call home but everything changes when Claire Rodriguez, a woman from Molly's past, suddenly reappears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "Ada escaped her family's self-enclosed world to elope with a mysterious stranger. Five months later, she's a widow in a strange new world, but there is still life ahead for her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: From her earliest memory, Liesl McNamara's mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food. And now, as the owner of Wild Rise bake house, Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough, nourishing and perfecting her craft. But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite complicated. Her head baker brings his troubled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013
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Summary: Where is Hoppity Frog? Is he playing in the reeds? No, that's Downy Duckling. Is he paddling through the pond? No, that's Silky Swan! Children will love pushing out the sturdy sliders on each page of this board book until they find Hoppity Frog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE PARParrish, P. J.
Summary: "For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981. Jean's daughter Amy, only five at the time, has been plagued by dream-like memories of a violent killing, and it is assumed that the murder she has seen is her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Star 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Wormwords invade the school, draining the students' mental energy and causing them to repeat themselves, so the Librarian works to exterminate the pests before they zombify the students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: Detective Louis Kincaid moved to Loon Lake, Michigan, to escape the horrors of his past, but he finds himself in the middle of a serial killer's deadly spree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books/Kensington Pub. 2001
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Summary: Matt Owens is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, but he's adrift, more inclined to hit the bottle alone than the Miami Beach club scene. When his younger sister Mandy comes to visit, Matt wants to show her a new world. It's the trip of her dreams, but the nightmare begins when Mandy disappears from a crowded dance floor. When her lifeless body is found, the only clue is a grisly rock song...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2007
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Summary: Louis Kincaid is wearing a badge again, as part of an elite homicide squad. But the return to his Michigan home comes at the bidding of a man who once vowed to destroy him. When the cold case deaths of two little boys collide with the white-hot murder of a mega-church minister, Louis finds himself fighting to unearth the secret past of his police captain and the demons of his own childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Our Noir Publishing 2018
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Summary: Florida's Gulf Coast community of Sereno Key has been shaken to the core by a grisly ritualistic murder. Though an arrest is quickly made, Detective Louis Kincaid feels strangely unsettled. His uncertainty is confirmed as a second body is discovered, and then a third--each branded with the bizarre trademarks of a serial killer whose blood lust is growing. Now in a race against time, Kincaid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Our Noir Publishing 2018
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Summary: Kincaid, a former cop turned private investigator, is hired by a woman who fears that her father, Frank Woods, a middle-aged, nondescript librarian with murky connections to several missing women dating back as far as 35 years, may be the killer. Although all signs point to Woods's guilt, his confession and apparent suicide never sit well with Kincaid. He reluctantly teams up with Mel Landeta,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P PARParrish, P. J.
Summary: "She knows her name is Amelia, but after waking up in a hospital battered and bruised with just the clothes on her back, it's all she knows. Unable to piece together her shattered memory, she's haunted by a vision: menacing faces and voices implying her nightmare is far from over. Relying only on her wits and her will to live, Amelia becomes a fugitive from a mysterious man, and a life she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P PARParish, Herman
Summary: "Amelia Bedelia's mother loves garage sales so much, she decides to have one herself! But Amelia Bedelia loves her garage and does not want to sell it, so she and her parents decide to call it a yard sale instead. People come from all over the neighborhood to buy Amelia Bedelia and her parents' old things, and one woman even buys the yard!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016