Dahl, Roald.
Summary: Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard Jeunesse 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 DAH FRENCHSummary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANGSummary: The Mallard family is in a bit of a rut: while dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids - teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen - the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2024
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Summary: In the Well of Lost Plots, Thursday discovers a linguistic free-for-all where grammasites run rampant, lousy books are scrapped for salvage, and a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel. Once again, it's up to Thursday to track down the killer, save her pulp novel-slash-temporary abode, and get back to her "real" life with her body and memory intact.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FfordSummary: Maksville County Sheriff Alden Rockwell's retirement plans are interrupted by a crime syndicate threatening the family of the neighboring county's sheriff, Joanne Porter. The situation soon escalates into a battle for the fate of the two counties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTIRE COUCall number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COU
Posthuma, Lisabeth
Summary: "Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POSMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNFlumeri, Elisabetta
Summary: "Escape to the winding cobblestone streets and rolling hills of Tuscany in this delicious, romantic, and charming tale of irresistible attraction and dreams fulfilled, complete with mouthwatering authentic Italian recipes--perfect for fans of Chocolat and Under the Tuscan Sun. Margherita is a spirited young woman with a passion for cooking. When her heart is broken in Rome, she returns to her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLUElo, Elisabeth.
Summary: "Dennis Lehane meets Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo's debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north. When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELOSchlatter, Gaspard
Summary: After his mother dies, a young boy is sent to live in an orphanage where he learns to trust and love again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MYHolleville, Élizabeth
Summary: Summer for Louise means sand, surf, and ... the supernatural. Louise spends every summer at her grandma's house with her older sister, cousins, and Rodin the dog. But, this year, her plans to relax and read comics on the beach are about to be turned upside down by a mischievous ghost, bored with being forced to haunt the same house. While the other girls are wrapped up in romance and teenage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow Ltd 2020
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Summary: "A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled, over-staffed, over-worked life. Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HYDMoss, Elisabeth
Summary: Years after a deadly pandemic wiped out most of the female population, a father travels with his young daughter disguised as a son through the fringes of the dystopian world, trying to protect her at all costs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIGNorebäck, Elisabeth
Summary: A successful therapist believes she's found her lost daughter when a young woman enters her clinic, while the woman's mother fears that her daughter's new therapist is planting dangerous thoughts in her head.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORSalmon, Caspar
Summary: "Get ready to show off your skills in this fun new counting book! But not everything is as it seems . . . is this book really only about counting to "ONE?" Because there are SO MANY fun things that you could count. But wait --maybe there's a way to outsmart the book . . . and count all the way up to 100!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SALCampbell, Lisbeth
Summary: When a country is held in thrall to a vicious, despotic king, it's up to one woman to take him down in this gorgeous literary fantasy debut from Lisbeth Campbell. Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed it was an assassination by a neighboring king, but everyone knew it was a lie. He had Disappeared her himself. But after finding the missing queen's diary, Anza--impassioned by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMGifford, Elisabeth.
Summary: "In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the remote Scottish island of Harris. He hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies--mermaids or seal people who have been sighted off the north of Scotland for centuries. He has a more personal motive, too; family legend states that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIFHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDOgilvie, Elisabeth
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGILVEgan, Elisabeth.
Summary: "In A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as "wearing many hats" and wishes you wouldn't, either). She is a mostly-happily married mother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EGACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGAHyde, Elisabeth
Summary: "The adult Blaire children, Lizzie, George, and Ruth, convene for a weekend visit in New Hampshire at the behest of their father, Murray. The Blaire children carry with them a host of issues, but perhaps the biggest one is that it has been more than 30 years since the accident that took their mother, Lillian, and brother, Daniel, from them. When a beloved keepsake of Lillian's, a Fannie Farmer...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: Diana Duprey, a doctor in a small town who also performs abortions, is found murdered. She had many enemies, thus, many of the townspeople are implicated in the murder, including her husband and daughter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006