Summary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BABParkhurst, Carolyn
Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a "family camp" in New Hampshire-- a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammonds are living in suburban DC, where everything...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParkhurst, Carolyn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARParkhurst, Carolyn
Summary: Paul Iverson's Life Changes in an instant. He returns home one day to find that his wife, Lexy, has died under strange circumstances. The only witness was their dog, Lorelei, whose anguished barking brought help to the scene-but too late. In the days and weeks that follow, Paul begins to notice strange "clues" in their home: books rearranged on their shelves, a mysterious phone call, and other...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParkhurst, Carolyn
Summary: Widow and novelist Octavia Frost is reunited with her estranged son Milo after he is arrested for murdering his girlfriend. Octavia then embarks on a troubling quest to root out the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARSibley, Priscille.
Summary: After an accident leaves his wife Elle brain dead, Matt Beaulieu, resolving to take her off life support, changes his mind when the doctors discover that she is pregnant, a decision that results in a controversial legal battle with Elle's family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIBSibley, Priscille.
Summary: Matt Beaulieu was two years old the first time he held Elle McClure in his arms, seventeen when he first kissed her under a sky filled with shooting stars, and thirty-three when they wed. Now in their late thirties, the deeply devoted couple has everything--except the baby they've always wanted. When a tragic accident leaves Elle brain-dead, Matt is devastated. Though he cannot bear losing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Masters, Priscilla.
Summary: A quiet lad named Callum is thrust into infamy after fatally stabbing his classmate Roger. Then, only two days after his arrest, Callum is discovered lifeless, presumably a suicide. As events unfold, the truth about the boys' relationship might just prove to be even more devastating than the bloody act that ended Roger's life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MASRoyal, Priscilla.
Summary: "In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England's ruler. His queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return from Outremer, a journey that will include a stay at Tyndal Priory. Envoys are sent to confirm that everything will be suitable for the king's wife, and Prioress Eleanor nervously awaits them, knowing that regal visits bring expense along...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYBurris, Priscilla
Summary: "Children have fun at school experiencing familiar classroom activities for the first time"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BURCogan, Priscilla
Summary: When an old Indian medicine woman announces she intends to die, her daughter takes her to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist, a white woman, finds she is getting nowhere and slowly the tables are turned, the Indian medicine woman successfully treating the problems of the lonely and divorced white doctor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC COG
Ferguson, Sarah
Summary: As Ruby tells everyone about her invitation to tea with the Queen, family and friends remind her about how she should conduct herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E FerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FerMasters, Priscilla
Summary: In the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton, south of Shrewsbury, Tracey Walsh drives herself and her four-year-old daughter, Daisy, up the remote Burway in the early hours of the morning, tragically loses control of her car and crashes into the valley below. Tracey is rushed to hospital, but where is Daisy? She has vanished, provoking an intense police search of the area...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASRyan, Pam Munoz
Summary: A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYACogan, Priscilla
Summary: Awakening from a coma with a traumatic brain injury, former English professor Tess Outerbridge finds herself cognitively challenged, facing unexpected divorce papers from her husband and homeless. An elderly, lonely hospital volunteer, Cassie McDermott, invites Tess to her mansion for the long rehabilitation. An unforeseen gun battle leaves Sonny, a brilliant young man on the cusp of a bright...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2013
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC COG1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cogan 2013Friedrich, Priscilla.
Summary: Having slept past Easter, the Easter bunny tries to distribute his eggs on Mother's Day, the Fourth of July, and Halloween, but no one is interested until finally Santa Claus is able to get him back on track.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1983
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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE FRIRoyal, Priscilla.
Summary: Recently appointed prioress Eleanor of Wynethorpe gets more than she had bargained for when she takes over the Order of Fontevraud after a monk is found murdered and Brother Thomas arrives to investigate the Order's shaky finances.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYShirer, Priscilla
Summary: "Two years ago, the Prince Warriors lost one of their own, but now they must stand firm . . . because death is coming once again. In this sequel to Priscilla Shirer's best-selling trilogy, the Prince Warriors return to Ahoratos to find it bare and dangerous. The Winter War is upon them"--from Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHIFerguson, Jenny
Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FERFerguson, Jenny
Summary: Jen Ferguson's powerful and beautifully written YA debut novel follows a demisexual Metis teen girl from a Canadian prairie town, who over one summer must grapple with an unwelcome figure from her past--as well as the questions about identity, secrets, confusion about her sexuality, and relationships that all make up who she is. In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC FERFerguson, Keith
Summary: A shy eight-year-old boy is forced to give up his imaginary friend, a talking blanket named Bloo, but he finds the perfect home for him at a home for imaginary friends, making a deal with the proprietress that Bloo never be adopted as long as he visits him daily.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FOSFerguson, Jenny
Summary: In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FERFerguson, Melissa
Summary: "Cassie Everson is an expert at escaping bad first dates. And, after years of meeting, greeting, and running from the men who try to woo her, Cassie is almost ready to retire her hopes for a husband--and children--altogether. But fate has other plans, and Cassie's online dating profile catches the eye of firefighter Jett Bentley. In Jett's memory, Cassie Everson is the unreachable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERBurris, Priscilla
Summary: This count-and-sing book will introduce preschoolers to early math concepts that will engage as well as reinforce their learning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2016