Clark, P. Djèlí
Summary: "Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy ClarkQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "When her dreams of rising through the police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her life in Accra. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency tracking down missing persons, thefts, and marital infidelities. It's not the future she imagined, but it's her best option. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Quartey 2020Summary: Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEAQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss's asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi was just months shy of graduating high school when she became secretive and withdrawn. Suddenly, all she wanted to do was be with her handsome new beau, Femi, instead of attending law school in the fall. So when she disappears from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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Summary: "Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though plagued by rumors of lavish overspending, alcoholism, and womanizing. He's dating the imposing, beautiful Lady Araba, who leads a self-made fashion empire. Araba's religious family believes Augustus is after her money and intervenes to break them up. A few days later, just before a major runway show, Araba...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUABacon, Lee.
Summary: Besides being bullied, Joshua faces one more obstacle in middle school, trying to hide his identity as the son of supervillains, the Dread Duo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012
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Summary: "Learn all about planet Earth in the third book in this nonfiction Level 1 Ready-to-Read series about the universe that's perfect for kids who love science and space!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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Summary: Presents the debut novel in a trilogy of original Walking Dead books, chronicling the back story of the comic book series' greatest villain, The Governor, and explaining what drives him to extremes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIRJenkins, Jerry B.
Summary: "Nicole Berman is an archaeologist on the brink of a world-changing discovery. During her first dig in Jordan, she believes she has found concrete evidence of a biblical patriarch that could change history books forever-- but someone doesn't want the truth revealed. While Nicole is urgently trying to connect pieces of an ancient puzzle, a dangerous enemy is out to stop her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing 2018
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Summary: "Derrick Hollis is a 7th grader at Zachary Taylor Middle School and an aspiring cartoonist too shy to show his work to anybody but his best friend Doug. Derrick is devastated when his dog Max dies. But after being cremated, Max returns from the other side and starts giving Derrick advice. Derrick could use it, especially when it comes to affairs of the heart and standing up to bullies."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SULSummary: Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes finds himself alone. The world he knows is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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Summary: "Spice trader Cinnamon's quiet life is turned upside down when she ends up on a quest with a fiery demon, in this irreverently quirky rom-com fantasy that is sweet, steamy, and funny as hell. All she wanted to do was live her life in peace--maybe get a cat, expand the family spice farm. Really, anything that didn't involve going on an adventure where an orc might rip her face off. But they say...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2024
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Summary: Recent murder victim Tori can't make peace with the afterlife until she finds out who killed her and why. With the help of a Portal Detective named Seamus, Tori returns to the world of the living to seek answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LL-Publications 2011
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC HERKirkman, Robert.
Summary: "First came the ground-breaking comic book series. Then came the record-breaking television show. Next, the bestselling novel, Rise of the Governor. Now, having peered into the Governor's horrific past in the first book, this riveting sequel delves into Philip Blake's ascension as the leader of Woodbury. But it won't be easy . . . there are those within this walled-off city who don't trust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIRKirkman, Robert.
Summary: Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2007
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Summary: A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2007
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIDeCamp, Alison.
Summary: In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2015
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Summary: More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, fifteen-year-old Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA SF De La Cruz 2013Ireland, Justina
Summary: "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- derailing the War between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Negro and Native Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family is still alive and endures many horrors along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2009
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Summary: In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the Pacific League of Nations and the Atlantic Division of Nations, tensions are high as each side waits for the other to make a move. But neither side is prepared for a powerful third party that has apparently been an influential presence on Earth for thousands of years, and just might be making a reappearance very soon. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2024
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Summary: "One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain. Lord Daniel's absence triggers a series of crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Vertigo, DC Comics 2019