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Bucket, Charlie (Fictitious character) Fiction Chocolate factories Fiction England Humorous stories Murder Investigation Fiction Paniatowski, Monika (Fictitious character) Fiction Police England Fiction Toy and movable books Toy and movable books Specimens Wonka, Willy (Fictitious character) FictionSummary: Inheritance is the story of Monika Hertwig, a soft-spoken woman struggling with a profound legacy left bya father she never really knew. Monika's father was Amon Goeth. Often described as a "monster" and "inhuman", Goeth was a prominent Nazi leader and commandant of the Plaszow Concentration Camp. He murdered thousands of Jews and other prisoners during the war. Sixty years after Amon Goeth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INHVillanueva, Gail D.
Summary: In one week Sabrina will be eleven-years-old and she would really like to get her estranged parents and her older sister Ate Nadine together for the celebration, especially since the black butterfly landing on her locket has convinced her that she is going to die; Sabrina and her friend Pepper come up with a bucket list, and enlist Ate Nadine's help--but aspiring reporter Ate Nadine is working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VILRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLSpencer, Sally
Summary: When the body of an American woman is found in the Prince Alfred suite at the Royal Victoria Hotel, DCI Monika Paniatowski is faced with one fo the most baffling cases of her career. The owman who called herself Mary Edwards had been a guest at the hotel for the past two weeks, having paid cash in advance. But who was she really - and what was she doing in a small town like Whitebridge? If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLManzano, Sonia
Summary: A coming-of-age memoir by the actress and writer offers a look into the daily lives of a loving, but troubled, Latino family and a girl kept afloat amid the turbulence of her life and times by the dream of becoming an actress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MANZANO, SONIA MANSpencer, Sally
Summary: Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman dumped on the lonely canalside, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out who she is--but no one seems to know.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEArre, Arnold
Summary: It's been two decades since the former classmates first met, and the ensuing years have brought their share of changes. Kubin's strength is weakening with each passing day; Lane's telepathy is gone; Rey and Misha are nowhere to be found; and the bonds that once held them together are slowly crumbling under their misfortune. Thrown into the mix is Nicole and Kubin's daughter, Marilag, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ARRSpencer, Sally
Summary: "He was going to have to terminate Monika, he decided. It was a pity, but there it was... The body has lain buried for years, and has no face and no fingertips. Monika Paniatowski's team have no real leads, but when they discuss the case at her hospital bedside - where she lies paralysed - Monika begins to see possible links with a case she closed four years earlier. Are the two cases...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESpencer, Sally.
Summary: The third book in the series featuring DCI Monika Paniatowski - When a recently released prisoner claims in a deathbed confession that he is innocent of the rape and murder of a young girl for which he was convicted twenty-two years earlier, DCI Monika Paniatowski is tasked to lead an unofficial investigation into his claims. At first she is reluctant, but when she learns that her old mentor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESotomayor, Sonia
Summary: "As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books! They were her mirrors, her maps, her friends, and her teachers. They helped her to connect with her family in New York and in Puerto Rico, to deal with her diabetes diagnosis, to cope with her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SOTOMAYOR SOTMorton, Andrew
Summary: "In the summer of 1995, Monica Lewinsky, then twenty-one years old and fresh out of college, went to work as an unpaid intern at the White House. What happened next, as a vivacious young woman's "crush" on her boss led to her public humiliation and the impeachment of the President of the United States, has been documented in shocking detail."--BOOK JACKET. "But have we heard the true story?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MORPotts, Monica
Summary: "Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives-broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTTS, MONICA POTSummary: Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found "home" at a Santa Monica laundromat. Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimi's passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywood's red carpets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QUEStarr, Kenneth
Summary: "Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history. You could fill a library with books about the scandals of the Clinton administration, which eventually led to President Clinton's impeachment by the House of Representatives. Bill and Hillary Clinton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 STAJohnson, Dana Kenneth
Summary: Ionia County's 16 townships once contained around 160 schools. This book explores the historic schools of Ionia County, Michigan through vintage maps, descriptive text and colorful photos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.454 JOHSummary: What, exactly, is religion? Why does one religious tradition often differ so markedly from another? Why--despite their common source--are the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so different? What kinds of factors separate the beliefs of a Hindu or Buddhist from the 'people of the book' and from other sects of Hindus or Buddhists? Religion affects everyone's life, whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291 COMCall number: DVD 291 COM
Spencer, Sally.
Summary: DCI Monica Paniatowski becomes emotionally invested in finding the murderer of a wedding guest who was killed just hours after the investigator saw her alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESpencer, Sally
Summary: DCI Monica Paniatowski is assigned to be an advisor for the Earl of Ridley's rock festival, but events become chaotic when the Earl hires a motorcycle gang to act as security and a tabloid journalist turns up dead nearby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESpencer, Sally.
Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Monika Paniatowski is called to investigate the murder of a retired miner in the village of Bellingsworth, which is already dealing with an impending miners strike and as Monika tracks the killer her partner and closest frind Detective Inspector Colin Beresford threatens to tear the team apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEAndrews, Julie
Summary: This creative nonfiction book introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d'Arezzo's development of musical notation. Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually, he created the musical scale, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do...one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time, Guido's music couldn't be silenced. His discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUIDahl, Roald.
Summary: Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a lifetime. Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await. Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could be all his ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Pop-Up Books, Call number: J FIC DAHSchenck, John S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.W. Ensign & Co. 1881
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.453 SchenckAlvarez, Julia
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH ALVCall number: YA 468 SPANISH