Driver, Janine.
Summary: What if you could increase your salary by 15 percent, kick problems and worries to the curb, and get a better night's rest simply by learning how to detect a lie the moment it starts (or even before)? What if you had an easy-to-use test that tipped you off the instant someone held something back from you? An innate lie detector so powerful it becomes an unconscious skill, applicable with any...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Grover, Janice Zita
Summary: Dakota the dog is rescued from a puppy mill, cared for by a foster owner, and given to a young girl battling cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Gryphon Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ZITOliver, Jamie
Summary: "One is the ultimate cookbook that will make getting good food on the table easier than ever before... Jamie Oliver is back to basics with over 120 simple, delicious, ONE pan recipes. In ONE, Jamie Oliver will guide you through over 120 recipes for tasty, fuss-free and satisfying dishes cooked in just one pan. What's better: each recipe has just eight ingredients or fewer, meaning minimal prep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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We have 4 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Janine
Contents: Let It Run (4:04) -- Dark Mind (4:16) -- Hold Me (3:35) -- Little Bit (3:55) -- Bullets (3:37) -- Hold Me (feat. Pusha T) (4:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Mixtape Records/Atlantic 2014
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Oliver, Jamie
Summary: Plant-based and veg-forward dishes and meals to encourage eating more plants; based in nutritional, economical, and environmental considerations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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We have 3 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Siddons, Anne Rivers
Summary: "Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDArrouas, Michelle
Summary: "Ready to go away? The experts at Fodor's are here to help. We're bringing you the very best of Scandinavia, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure that you have all the essential information to plan a perfect trip and make the most of your time"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL EUROPESiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: Every summer, Thayer Wentworth, the daughter of a wealthy Middletown, Georgia family, attended Camp Greyledge on Burnt Mountain. It was there were she learned the facets of love and heartbreak with a boy named Nick Abrams. Years later, she marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and moves a few miles away from her childhood camp, much to the disapproval of her family. However, when Aengus spends a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDSiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: "Anne Rivers Siddons tells the beautiful, tragic, and redemptive story of a woman who searches for meaning after her husband dies"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SidTeisson, Janine
Summary: Pour son maître, Loulou n'est pas un chat normal : il déteste chasser les souris ! Eh bien, puisque c'est comme ça, le prince Duracuir l'envoie au cachot. Heureusement, il y rencontre Lili la souris qui trouvera la ruse pour le sortir d'affaire. Une atmosphère médiévale pour l'amitié improbable d'un chat et d'une souris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 TEI FRENCHTeisson, Janine
Summary: La classe de mademoiselle Rosalie et ses dix élèves ont reçu une invitation à « venir dévorer des livres à l’occasion de l’inauguration de la librairie L’ogre bouquiniste ». Tiphaine Lhogre les accueille. Les enfants peuvent ouvrir tous les livres qu'ils veulent ! Bientôt il est l'heure de rentrer à l'école, mais… trois élèves ont disparu ! Leurs livres sont abandonnés par terre. Tout le monde...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard jeunesse 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 TEI FRENCHJaine, Lillian
Summary: There are lots of ways to say "I love you" -and Elmo and his Sesame Street friends are ready to tell you in as many ways as they can!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAICummins, Jeanine
Summary: "También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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We have 8 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Crider, Bill.
Summary: Short fiction from the author of the popular Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. In these 11 previously published tales, we meet a detective who also happens to be a werewolf; investigate two separate missing-animal cases; tag along with series characters Carl Burns (the amateur-sleuth English teacher) and Dan Rhodes; watch Elvis Presley hunting a vampire; and a handful of other interesting puzzles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Paull, Laline.
Summary: Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Grier, Ella.
Summary: The seven days of Kwanzaa is a celebration of rich African-American culture and traditions: lighting candles, storytelling, singing and making mkeka mats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 394.2 GRIScott, Janny.
Summary: A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story. Award-winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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Fanone, Michael
Summary: "An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FANONE FANCummins, Jeanine
Summary: Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUMDonofrio, Jeanine
Summary: What type of cook are you? That is the question Jeanine Donofrio, creator of the wildly successful blog Love & Lemons and bestselling cookbooks by the same name, asks her readers in her newest book, Love & Lemons: Simple Feel-Good Food. Jeanine is beloved for her bright and breezy cook-from-the-hip style where trips to the farmers market lead to impromptu, seasonal meals. But, as life has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2023
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Summary: "Happy Chinese New Year! The zodiac animals are ready to celebrate Chinese New Year with traditions and a big feast! Little ones can count to twelve as each animal prepares for the holiday- Rat cleaned away the bad luck in one big sweep! Ox shopped for two new outfits. Tiger brought three kinds of flowers. Includes numbers written in Chinese characters and their pronunciation"--Publisher's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HO (BOARD)Chang, Janie
Summary: After being abandoned by her mother in 1908 Shanghai, a young Eurasian girl, Jialing, becomes the bondservant to the new owners of a grand estate until she befriends a young English girl who mysteriously disappears and forever changes her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P CHADunn, Jancee
Summary: "A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice.,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017