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African American children Fiction African American families Mississippi Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Guilt Fiction Gulf Coast (Fla.) Fiction Gulf Coast (Miss.) Fiction Gulf Coast (U.S.) Fiction Rural poor Mississippi FictionRiordan, Rick.
Summary: Newly married and about to be a father, Tres gives up the dangerous life of a private detective. But while honeymooning on Rebel Island, he discovers a dead body that triggers memories of his own shady past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M RIOWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARSummary: The experts at Florida Sportsman bring you the most colorful, indepth book on snapper and grouper ever written. Learn how to catch more and bigger grouper and snapper than ever before. The best baits and rigs, new hotspots, and tips from the pros!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Florida Sportsman 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 SPOSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIMoran, Terrie Farley
Summary: The national bestselling author of "Caught Read-Handed "revisits Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where the proprietors of a local bookstore cafe occasionally take a stab at solving murder... At their seaside Read Em and Eat bookstore cafe, Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield offer fresh scones, great books, and excellent detective work With their book club season wrapping up with "The Florida Life of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORJenkins, Peter
Summary: Photographic record of the author's two-year trip around the Gulf Coast, from the Florida Keys to the Texas/Mexico border, with stories about some of the people he met and places he visited along the way. Companion piece to the author's book, Along the edge of America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 976 JENZentner, Jeff
Summary: "One day Carver Briggs had it all -- three best friends, a supportive family, and a reputation as a talented writer at his high school, Nashville Academy for the Arts. The next day he lost it all when he sent a simple text to his friend Mars, right before Mars, Eli, and Blake were killed in a car crash. Now Carver can't stop blaming himself for the accident, and he's not the only one. Eli's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZENRice, Luanne
Summary: Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION RICWard, Jesmyn
Summary: What's inside: Travel tips about seafood shacks, secret beaches, scenic rives and fishing destinations; Interviews with oyster farmers, historians and mermaid performers; Stories about hot sauce, hurricanes, islands and Old Florida.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.6 GULF COAST WARWard, Jesmyn
Summary: A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ward 2017Ward, Jesmyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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Summary: "A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west. It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kent 2013Baldacci, David.
Summary: After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baldacci 2012Brandt, Beverly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABattle, Lois.
Summary: Hilly Pruitt and the other women of Florabama, Alabama, wonder what course their lives are going to take after the factory where they have worked for years closes down, leaving them all with no jobs and very little hope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATKoryta, Michael.
Summary: When Arlen Wagner awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but are soon stranded at the Cypress House--an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KORRoby, Kinley E.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a prominent community activist in Florida only to discover that the beautiful socialite who hired him was implicated in the death of her husband years earlier, Harry Brock survives an attempt on his life before learning that his first wife is dying.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBurroway, Janet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: "Twin brothers struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf coast"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden Books/Agate 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARHiggins, Ryan T.
Summary: When Penelope Rex brings home Walter, the class goldfish, for the weekend, she is not sure how to feel, but when Walter goes missing, Penelope searches high and low for her fishy classmate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DisneyHyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction HigginsCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGKrauss, Nicole
Summary: One of America's most important novelists (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAGunderson, Jessica
Summary: Kamilla has a wonderful singing voice, but she does not want to sign up for the Memorial Middle School musical because she sees herself as overweight, even though the doctor tells her she is not--so can exercise and the support of her family and friends help her overcome her negative image and lead her to the starring role her talent demands?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JUNLaRocca, Rajani
Summary: When his grandfather, who makes masala chai each morning for the family, sprains his ankle, impatient Aarav decides to make the chai himself, but when his rushing causes him to miss some crucial steps, he must learn to slow down to get the recipe right.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARMontague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024