Dehnel, Jacek
Summary: "Lala has lived a dazzling life, filled with love, betrayals, acts of courage and some of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. There is nothing she likes better than to tell stories of her fascinating past - of her grandfather, the legendary owner of the first car in Ukraine; of her aristocratic mother; and not least of herself. Her most avid listener is her grandson, Jacek,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEHDacey, Patrick
Summary: "Centered around a family's weekend in their summer cottage on the Northeast cape that explores four lives in crisis and reflects back at us what the American family is becoming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DACLacey, Catherine
Summary: "The story of a young woman who takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan, hurtling herself into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers and sleeping in fields, forests or public parks"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUHosein, Kevin Jared
Summary: "Trinidad in the 1940s, nearing the end of American occupation and British colonialism. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognizable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building ... divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops--Hans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSGantos, Jack
Summary: "Ralph takes a swing through his family tree to find out why he's so rotten"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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Summary: After the world falls prey to an EMP that knocks out the power grid, millions die, chaos reigns, and humanity struggles to survive. For Laura, home is within reach when she finds Tommy in Tennessee, but a deadly adversary hell-bent on making him pay places all of them in the crosshair. As new threats arise in South Dakota, John Sheridan receives alarming news that tears him away and calls into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jack Hunt, 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNCheng, Jack
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: JFIC CHEHunt, Jack
Summary: When an EMP destroys the electrical grid and a family is separated by a massive storm, who will survive? Consumed by guilt over the accidental death of his daughter’s husband and child, a disabled veteran, John Sheridan leaves Florida and returns to his small town in the Black Hills of South Dakota to finalize the sale of a remote mountain cabin once shared with his wife. With his vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jack Hunt, 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNCheng, Jack
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC CHEDailey, Janet
Summary: "Emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children, former US Army major Logan Hunter heads to Blue Moon to salvage whatever peace he can. Yet settling into his new home is fraught with challenges, especially since Logan's land borders the rival Dollarhide spread, pitting Logan against an adversary who stirs him like no other. From her first encounter with Logan, Dr. Kristin Dollarhide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAIPeery, Janet
Summary: Gathering on a summer evening to celebrate the birthday of their ailing patriarch, the Campbell family confronts the difficult realities of an offspring's addiction problems, his mother's enabling behaviors, and his siblings' conflicted views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEEDailey, Janet
Summary: "Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas' most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in--and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy's body in their prize stallion's box stall.Roper's rodeo career was cut short by an injury....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIMack, Luz M.
Summary: "Retell[s] the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family that lives in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed region called Encanto--a wondrous place whose magic becomes threatened and whose rescue depends on the only member of the Madrigal family who doesn't possess magical gifts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MACTaylor, Janet
Summary: As a member of a long line of time-traveling ancestors, sixteen-year-old Hope must travel back to 1895 New York City to stop a plan to steal a dangerous device from inventor Nikola Tesla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYSummary: "What do Ace Savvy, Muscle Fish, and El Falcon de Fuego (The Falcon of Fire) all have in common? They're super-heroes! But, what makes a super-hero truly super? And what can make this SUPER SPECIAL even more super? Familia and friends, of course! Not only do we have Lincoln Loud and Clyde idolizing their super-hero favorites, but see what Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lisa, Lola, Lana,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023