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Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: " A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum--or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his childhood bedroom is aswarm with aliens, all bent on discovering the human who best personifies their mission--in this case, the deeply serious pursuit of fun. Ejected from the boring comfort of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANHamilton, Peter F.
Summary: The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel - self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMPage, Sally
Summary: Janice is a collector of stories. When she starts cleaning for elderly Mrs. B, she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice doesn't have a story, at least not one she can share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAGRickstad, Eric
Summary: Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning. Eight years later, he makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RICDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory. She can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom, the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. Melody...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home-and his own art-through new eyes. When Ruby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2013
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Summary: "Chu the panda goes to the beach!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD GAILimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Boston to experience the start of the American Revolution as it happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LIMColfer, Chris
Summary: "A combination travel guide, encyclopedia, and exciting fan compendium, this ultimate guidebook includes sections such as "Who's Who," "Places to Go," and "Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Things" that explore the backgrounds and histories of the many characters, places, and magic items throughout the beloved Land of Stories series. This book also includes bonus chapters, insider information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION COLCleary, Beverly.
Summary: Turning eight is a big step for Ramona. With her father taking college courses and her mother always working, Ramona finds herself with increased responsibilities, including taking the bus by herself and helping her big sister make dinner. However, Ramona's newfound confidence is shaken when her first grade teacher calls her a nuisance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Childrens 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDA FICTION CLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CLEDuvall, Dianne
Summary: After a spaceship is attacked, an Earthling survivor, Eliana, is finally rescued by Commander Dagon. As he and Eliana hunt for her missing friends, a bond grows between them, until Eliana becomes the hunted one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUVHowey, Hugh
Summary: "Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWMontefiore, Santa
Summary: "The rugged coastline, tightknit communities, and ancient landmarks of western Ireland provide the backdrop for this story of two women seeking peace and the love they desparately need."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONWade, James
Summary: After a horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb's moral compass will be tested as he and his brother travel the American Southwest and encounter those who have carved out a life there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he's kept his distance - until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Howard 2020Nehme, Farran Smith.
Summary: "New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she's never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwencan spend her days and her nights at the repertory houses--and most of the time that's left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEHHoover, Colleen
Summary: "In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared and no memory forgotten, but Holder's past remains a mystery. He is haunted by the little girl he let walk away from him and he has spent his entire life searching for her. He had hoped that he would finally gain closure and be able to rid himself of his guilt the moment they were reconnected. But he could not have anticipated that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2013
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Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: More than twenty years after Amy Bridgeman disappeared, Joseph Bridgeman still grieves for his lost sister. When a friend talks Joseph into visiting a hypnotherapist, the experience unlocks an unexpected Pandora's box: time travel. Soon Joseph begins to think of a way to solve the mystery of his sister's disappearance once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC JONMead, Richelle.
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Academy and Bloodline series returns with the second installment in her acclaimed Age of X series. Gameboard of the Gods introduced religious investigator Justin March and Mae Koskinen, the beautiful supersoldier assigned to protect him. Together they have been charged with investigating reports of the supernatural and the return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEAHarmon, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HARMone, Gregory
Summary: Kaya, raised in the undersea, high-tech world of Atlantis, has always been fascinated by the legends about life above the water. Despite the government's insistence that they're only stories, she can't help but dream about the Sun People, and when a group of officials known as Erasers move to bury those legends for good, Kaya sets out to the surface to uncover the truth once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MONSmith, Martin Cruz
Summary: "In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013