McDonald, Briana
Summary: Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDCrossan, Sarah
Summary: With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CROTuransky, Carrie
Summary: "Can faith and love reunite childhood friends separated by an inconceivable tragedy and light the way to a bright future? In a quiet corner of northern Edwardian England, Margaret Lounsbury diligently works in her grandmother's millinery shop, making hats and caring for her young sister. Several years earlier, a terrible event reshaped their family, shattering an idyllic life and their future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TURMosberg, Jason
Summary: "When Marty returns to Pennsylvania after living in California for ten years, he's happily welcomed by his father and older brother, Jody. The joyful reunion is short-lived. Two days later, Jody enters the house to find his father and Marty shot dead as their masked killer flees out the back door. Without any answers from the local police, Jody heads to Los Angeles looking for who murdered his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: "University student Matt Pine has just received devastating news. Nearly his entire family have been found dead while holidaying in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI aren't convinced - and they won't tell Matt why. The tragedy thrusts his family into the media spotlight again. Seven years ago, Matt's older brother, Danny, was sentenced to life in prison for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Finlay 2021Baldacci, David.
Summary: Amos Decker's promising football career was ended by a violent helmet-to-helmet collision. Now a police detective, he is still haunted by a side effect from the injury--he remembers everything, including things he would prefer to forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law murdered. As the husband, Amos immediately becomes a prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Baldacci 2015Baldacci, David
Summary: Amos Decker's promising football career was ended by a violent helmet-to-helmet collision. Now a police detective, he is still haunted by a side effect from the injury--he remembers everything, including things he would prefer to forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law murdered. As the husband, Amos immediately becomes a prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: Ebony and De'Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De'Kari's ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to think about and explain their behavior--to their families, to each other, and ultimately to themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000
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Summary: "Mati's family is reeling from the death of Mati's mother. Her Baba has drawn into himself, her sister Chichi is rebelling, and her young brother Tana is desperate for love and normalcy.When Chichi pulls her worst stunt yet, Baba uproots the family from their home in England for an extended camping holiday in their native Zimbabwe. Along for the trip is Meticais, a fabulously attired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Char Hawthorn is a college professor, loving wife, and devoted stepmother to her husband Bradley's spirited fifteen-year-old daughter, Allie. Char and Allie have a special bond, and together, the three of them feel like a family. But when Bradley dies in a car accident, the "step" in Char's title suddenly matters a great deal. In the eyes of the law, all rights to Allie belong to Lindy, Allie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "When Char Hawthorn's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly form a family and how, sometimes, love knows no bounds. Char Hawthorn, college professor, wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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Summary: "It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family to Utah; and his parents separate. When Richard is run down by bullies at his new school, he meets Mr. Foster, an elderly neighbor who chases off the bullies. Richard becomes fast friends with the man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolent spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books 1997
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Summary: It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother's abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVABlejwas, Emily
Summary: In small-town Wicapi, Minnesota, in 1991, twelve-year-old Justin struggles to pick up the pieces of his life after the unexpected death of his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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Summary: When her husband dies unexpectedly, Michigan college professor Char Hawthorne is left questioning everything she believed about her cozy small-town life and her relationship with her once-spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built Kaleidoscope, a glittering, 'global bohemian' shopping empire sourcing luxury goods from around the world. Statuesque, design savant, and family pet--eldest daughter Morgan Brighton is most celebrated of all. Yet despite her favored status, both within the family and in the press,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WONCitra, Becky
Summary: "A YA novel about discovering family secrets. Rachel and her little sister, Jane, are spending the summer with strangers: their grandparents. Up until their mom's death a few months ago, she didn't even know they existed. When their last remaining uncle decides they can't spend the summer in Vancouver, they are packed off to the family ranch in the BC interior. But her new-found family isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CITAbbott, Jeff.
Summary: After finding his mother murdered, documentary filmmaker Evan Casher discovers that every aspect of his life has been fabricated and that he is being targeted by a ruthless organization of killers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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Summary: This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OATFabiaschi, Abby
Summary: When a devoted wife and mother commits suicide and then begins meddling from beyond the grave, her husband and teenaged daughter are forced to reconsider their understanding of family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017