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Dukess, Karen

Summary: "A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when her circle of literary friends' infamous book club turns from talk of the lettered world to a nightmare without seeming end. If she's not careful, this may very well be the LAST book party..."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUK

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Dukess 2019

Summary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHE

Kagen, Lesley

Summary: "The summer of 1960 was the hottest ever for Summit, Wisconsin. For kids seeking relief from the heat, there was a creek to be swum in, sprinklers to run through, and ice cream at Whitcomb's Drugstore. But for Frankie, Viv, and Biz, eleven-year-old best friends, it would forever be remembered as the summer that evil paid a visit to their small town - and took their young lives as they'd known...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAG

Parsons, Karyn

Summary: Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAR

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Parsons 2019

Landsman, Keren

Summary: Throughout human history there have always been sorcerers, once idolised and now exploited for their powers. In Israel, the Sons of Simeon, a group of religious extremists, persecute sorcerers while the government turns a blind eye. After a march for equal rights ends in brutal murder, empath, moodifier and reluctant waiter Reed becomes the next target. While his sorcerous and normie friends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAN

Kagen, Lesley.

Summary: During a sweltering 1960 Milwaukee heat wave, Sally O'Malley struggles with the trauma of her father's sudden death and her sister Troo's possible role in a string of burglaries, an escape from a reform school, and an orphan's disappearance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAG

Mahajan, Karan

Summary: After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAH

Wang, Daren

Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAN

Callender, Kacen

Summary: Lark Winters wants to be a writer, and for now that means posting on their social media accounts--anything to build their platform. When former best friend Kasim accidentally posts a thread on Lark's Twitter declaring his love for a secret, unrequited crush, Lark's tweets are suddenly the talk of the school--and beyond. To protect Kasim, Lark decides to take the fall, pretending they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Summary: Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MEN

Summary: After signing a plea deal to spare his colleagues at Pearson Specter Litt, Mike faces the harsh realities of prison life as he starts his two-year sentence. Meanwhile, the once bustling PSL offices are now a ghost town. The partners have defected, leaving Harvey, Jessica, Louis, Donna, and Rachel to pick up the pieces. With the firm facing numerous lawsuits as fallout of the plea deal, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Universal Pictures Home Entertainment] 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUI

Callender, Kacen

Summary: For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime. Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic, so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage’s College, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he’s discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested, but instead...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Callender, Kacen

Summary: "In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAL

Čapek, Karel

Summary: Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catbird Press 1990

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAP

Callender, Kacen

Summary: Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Callender, Kacen

Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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Zailckas, Koren

Summary: Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors--young children, marriage, money--and she's settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAI

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Summary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom potboiler, Anatomy of a Murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ANA

Summary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANA

Hayes, Karel

Summary: When the summer visitors leave in the fall, a new group of visitors moves into the vacation cottage to spend the winter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAY

Eggert, Maren

Summary: In order to fund her own research, a scientist participates in an experiment in which she lives with a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect life partner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distribution Solutions 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN I'M

Maren, Mesha

Summary: "Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAR

Dukes, Kristopher

Summary: When eighteen-year-old Eleanora's father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora must abandon her dream of studying art in Italy as she struggles to survive in a remote mountain village with her stepmother Meria. Nearing starvation, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the cruel heir of a powerful clan. Intent on keeping her freedom, Eleanora takes an oath...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Zailckas, Koren.

Summary: Josephine Hurst has her family under control: two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family. When her oldest daughter, Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAI

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