Summary: Svetla, a strong-willed widow, lives alone in a small Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border. She has recently lost her job as a teacher due to the lack of families with young children. One day, while hunting in a forest, she encounters an African refugee, Bamba, who is trying to reach Germany, and will bring about a dramatic turn in her life. Reluctantly, she offers him hospitality, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEAKostova, Elizabeth
Summary: A "novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kostova 2017Kingfisher, T.
Summary: "The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKostova, Elizabeth
Summary: "From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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Summary: Presents five of the author's most popular novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDA FICTION DAHGreenwell, Garth.
Summary: "A haunting novel of erotic obsession by a major new talent On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a stairwell beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREPenkov, Miroslav.
Summary: "A young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut all contact with the family three years ago. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains--a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Penkov 2016Lawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Jack and Annie join Merlin on a magical mission to King Arthur's castle at Camelot, a haunted castle, fight a giant sea serpent, and travel to the land of snow.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDA FICTION OSBRiordan, Rick.
Summary: Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived in London, her brother has traveled with their father, Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a research experiment at the museum to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: Three friends fall prey to the demands of the Well Witch when they trespass in her wishing well and steal some coins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction Hardinge 2008Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: J CD OSBSummary: Rob Gordon's record store is semi-failing, and his long-time girlfriend has just walked out on him. In order to figure out where things went wrong, he examines his past relationships with other women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIGSummary: Forensic pathologist Dr. Nariman's car accidentally injures a motorcyclist's eight-year-old son. He offers to take the child to a clinic, but the father refuses his help and his money. A few days later, in the hospital where he works, Dr. Nariman learns that the boy has died under suspicious circumstances. His existential dilemma: is he responsible for the death, or did the child die of another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOHobson, Brandon
Summary: Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: JFIC HOBSchlitz, Laura Amy.
Summary: When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Schlitz 2010Milford, Kate.
Summary: At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MILPrineas, Sarah.
Summary: Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery's pocket and touched the wizard's locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic and work spells. But for some reason he did not. Nevery finds that interesting, and he takes Conn as his apprentice on the provision that the boy find a locus stone of his own. But Conn has little time to search for his stone between wizard lessons and helping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: A warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient gods and adept in magic, leaves the desert to return to the world of men, only to find himself drawn into a battle for the throne of Egypt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMICannell, Stephen J.
Summary: Frantically searching for his wife, Alexa, who vanished after a night out at L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully investigates the execution-style murder of an African-American gang member found in Alexa's car.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CANBardugo, Leigh
Summary: The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Hidden away, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA CD FIC BARSummary: Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CADSummary: Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANCharles, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004