Summary: The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SECMcCoy, Shirlee
Summary: "Sullivan Bradshaw never dreamed of returning to his hometown of Benevolence, Washington, but when a car crash kills his brother and critically injures his sister-in-law, the die-hard bachelor returns to care for the couples six children and the ancestral farm. The nanny he hires will change everything he ever thought he wanted"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCBusbee, Shirlee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUSBusbee, Shirlee.
Summary: Returning to her hometown after her brother's suicide, a young woman tries to heal the shattered past and face the questions that remain unanswered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUSMcCoy, Shirlee
Summary: "For the Bradshaw brothers, coming back to their hometown is the last thing they wanted. But to cope with family tragedy, they're reuniting in Benevolence, Washington--a place of hope, caring, and ever-surprising love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCShipley, Jocelyn
Summary: "After his girlfriend's accidental death by overdose, Kipp has been living on the streets, overwhelmed by his grief. He wants to honor her memory and finds help to get clean, but just when he feels like he's getting his life together, everything comes crashing down. He gets fired from his job and kicked out of his rented room on the same day. So when Reba, a friendly woman he met at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIObuobi, Shirlene
Summary: For fans of Grey's Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi explores that time in your life when you must decide what you want, how to get it, & who you are, all while navigating love, friendship, and the realization that the path you're traveling is going to be a bumpy ride.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBUThorley, Addie
Summary: "Before the massacre at Nariin, Enebish was one of the greatest warriors in the Sky King's Imperial Army: a rare and dangerous Night Spinner, blessed with the ability to control the threads of darkness. Now, she is known as Enebish the Destroyer--a monster and murderer, banished to a monastery for losing control of her power and annihilating a merchant caravan. Guilt stricken and scarred,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOClimo, Shirley.
Summary: Long ago in Germany, an old woman cleans her house and decorates her Christmas tree, hoping that this year she will witness some special Christmas Eve magic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC CLIHughes, Shirley
Summary: Lily's mother is sick and her father must go to work, but she does not want to stay with a babysitter, even if it means playing with cute baby Sam, sweet little dog Ringo, and fun big brother Jack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUGJackson, Shirley
Summary: The story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: When Zack soaks his new alligator keychain in water, it grows into a full-sized and fun-loving alligator. Zack gets a magical alligator key chain that turns into a real alligator when he runs it under water.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1995
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MOZCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MOZTallman, Shirley.
Summary: Flaunting the conventions of nineteenth-century society and feminine behavior, headstrong attorney Sarah Woolson gets more than she had bargained for when a reporter is found murdered during a seance at San Francisco's famed Cliff House.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTallman, Shirley.
Summary: Returning from an evening spent listening to a young Oscar Wilde in 1882 San Francisco, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are targeted in the fog by a gunman who strikes Samuel, prompting Sarah's investigation into the shooter's identity and intended victim.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALClimo, Shirley.
Summary: A small red ant finds a crumb in a Mexican cornfield, but she is afraid that she lacks the strength to move it herself and goes off to find an animal that can.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E CliHughes, Shirley
Summary: In his absence, Abel's children relive his tales of earlier adventures, make a moon machine out of an old table, and dream of being joined with him through the all-seeing moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 1999
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Summary: Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACJackson, Shirley
Summary: When four seekers arrive at a notorious old mansion, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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Summary: Nora has always been the sister who binds the O'Bannons together. No matter what crisis hits, smart, dependable Nora knows how to fix it. But for Nora, the pressure of perfection is taking its toll. Nora's marriage is in trouble and she has been reluctant to worry her sisters with just how dire her situation is. Now, though, faced with losing her husband, her home, and the life she's worked so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUMNeitzel, Shirley.
Summary: A young girl names all the clothes that she must wear to play in the snow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1991
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: STO NEINeitzel, Shirley.
Summary: A cumulative verse with rebuses in which a young boy has a wonderful day at the zoo, despite a series of mishaps with the animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Neitzel 2002Climo, Shirley.
Summary: A small red ant finds a crumb in a Mexican cornfield, but she is afraid that she lacks the strength to move it herself and goes off to find an animal that can.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 CLIJackson, Shirley
Summary: A collection of two of the author's tales exploring a world of horror and the macabre featuring the haunting story of a small town's yearly ritual of evil.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN JACMarr, Shirley
Summary: Inheriting First Uncle's home after he dies tragically and unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Meixing and her family immigrate to the New Land, where it will take all of Meixing's resilience and bravery to finally find her place of belonging in this new world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021