Ellsworth, Loretta
Summary: For the first time in decades, Lorraine Kindred has returned to the ballroom where she was swept away by the big bands during the 1940s--and by a star-crossed romance. As she takes in the magnificent energy and brassy sounds of her youth, the past comes to life, along with the fateful decision all those years ago that forced her to choose between personal conviction and social expectation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ELLEllsworth, Loretta
Summary: " For the first time in decades, Lorraine Kindred has returned to the ballroom where she was swept away by the big bands during the 1940s--and by a star-crossed romance. As she takes in the magnificent energy and brassy sounds of her youth, the past comes to life, along with the fateful decision all those years ago that forced her to choose between personal conviction and social expectation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ellsworth 2017Ellsworth, Melanie
Summary: A vibrant and humorous story about a harmonious friendsip that falls flat. How will Clarient and Trumpet piece together their broken notes to become one symphonic duo again?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's 1969, and things have taken a darker turn for the old Cowley team. With the gang now scattered across Oxfordshire, it takes a series of brutal crimes to reunite them. Now joined by former adversary DCI Ronnie Box and his sidekick DS Alan Jago, the gang must battle crime and corruption to finally solve their greatest challenge, which is to find the truth behind George Fancy's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENDHall, Leanne
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Everyone is affected by Yin's disappearance--even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HALZusy, Jeannie
Summary: "Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER in Maryland where her older sister lives, the cracks start to appear. Ginny, her sugar-loving and diabetic older sister with intellectual disabilities, has overdosed on strawberry Jell-O. Maggie knows Ginny really can't live on her own, so she brings her sister and her occasionally vicious dog to live near her in upstate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZUSSchwartz, Leanne
Summary: "Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa as a haven for his followers, but to keep the devil at bay, the church sends a child sacrifice to hell's entrance every season--often poor or plain girls just like Alesta. With a head full of ideas for inventions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHCummins, 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 CUMKukkonen, Janne
Summary: "Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods -- a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: :01, First second 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KUKPirro, Jeanine.
Summary: Prosecutor Dani Fox has handled some gruesome homicide cases, but her investigation into the brutal murder of a local Mafia capo's daughter goes from tricky to downright dangerous. Although the victim has ties to the New Jersey Mafia, she was also secretly engaged in an affair with someone from a rival New York crime family. As if squaring off against two powerful crime families weren't enough,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIRBaker, Jeannie.
Summary: In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAKMobley, Jeannie
Summary: Juliette Pitau, the daughter of a master gem-cutter, hopes to avoid execution by telling the court clerk--who is also her paramour--the story of how King Louis XIV's magnificent blue diamond was stolen. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOBMobley, Jeannie
Summary: After the Army of the Republic destroys her town, Claudie and her sister agree to a mission to deliver a valuable stolen jewel to the resistance's leader and Claudia finds herself irresistibly drawn to the man and his cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOBMobley, Jeannie.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOBCummins, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cummins 2020Auth, Jeannine.
Summary: Emmy's mom has a drinking problem that is starting to affect Emmy. Former friends aren't allowed to associate with her anymore, and Emmy doesn't know where to turn for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morningtide Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUTAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEITrasler, Janee.
Summary: Silly rhyming text invites young readers to join the chickies as they have their pictures taken and learn about opposites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperfestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD TRAGist, Deeanne.
Summary: "Set in 1640's Colonial Virginia, a marriage of convenience becomes most inconvenient when the bride proves more than the planter had bargained for"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GISGist, Deeanne.
Summary: In 1904 Texas Ranger Luke Palmer arrives in Brenham, Texas, with one goal--to capture the gang of outlaws led by Frank Comer. Undercover as a telephone repairman, he uses his days on the range to search, not realizing there's another pair of eyes watching him. Georgie Gail, switchboard operator and birder, heads out on a birding expedition, but instead of sighting a painted bunting, her opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GISGist, Deeanne.
Summary: "From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive "New Woman"--the girl behind Tiffany's chapel--and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 World's Fair setChicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany--heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire--seizes the opportunity to unveil his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GISHearne, Betsy.
Summary: A young girl recounts the brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her great-great-great grandmother who came to America in a wooden sailboat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC HEAHatch, Leanne
Summary: "When Violet gets a super big box of crayons she can't bring herself to use them because they are so perfect" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023