Hess, Annette
Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963 ... [this] is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HESSummary: When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATMarie, Annette.
Summary: Piper is feeling a bit overwhelmed. With Seiya and Lyre missing, Ash recovering from near fatal injuries, and the Gaians picking fights with daemons all over the city, a girl can't help but think she might be in over her head. And this time, she's on her own. Before she even has a chance to investigate the Gaians' new stockpile of mysterious, high-tech weaponry, an old enemy ambushes her:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Cate, Annette.
Summary: A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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Summary: A compilation of three tales which relate the fantastic adventures of Elmer Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GanBarnette, Abigail.
Summary: Newly divorced and romantically pessimistic, Ian Pratchett doesn't know why he's been set up with Penny Parker. She's unrelentingly positive, utterly superstitious, and sexually inexperienced-everything Ian is not. But when sparks fly between them, Ian sees the possibility of a life he'd given up hoping for . . . with a woman he would never have expected.Contains mature themes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Hest, Amy.
Summary: A boy and his dog hike to the top of a very tall, snowy hill where they play, enjoy a snack, and then share their favorite book before sledding home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Children's Publishing 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HESNess, Patrick
Summary: Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. At least he has two people to keep him sane: his new boyfriend (he does love Linus, doesn't he?) and his best friend, Angela. But all day long, old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NESNess, Patrick
Summary: What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NESGordon-Reed, Annette.
Summary: Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B Hemings GorNess, Patrick.
Summary: Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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Chapman, Vannetta
Summary: "Why would someone kill Nathan King? The peace of a perfect November afternoon is shattered when Agatha hears the frantic bleating of goats across the river from her B&B. Agatha kayaks over with retired detective Tony and two guests - Bishop Henry and his wife Emma. They find the goats huddled together in a terrified group and Nathan lying face up, lifeless eyes staring at the Texas sky. Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CHAChapman, Vannetta.
Summary: In the Amish community of Shipshewana, two women---one Amish, one English---reluctantly join forces for a short-term business venture. Neither is looking for friendship, but when the town's newspaper editor is murdered, and an unexpected prime suspect is identified, the women form an unlikely alliance to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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Hest, Amy.
Summary: When Sam has a cough, Mrs. Bear tends to him all through the cold night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HEST,Walls, Jeannette
Summary: "Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALMcCurdy, Jennette
Summary: "Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SCHOH 0000
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Summary: Presents a twist on themes from Moby Dick in the story of a proud warrior whale pod that attacks a ship before pursuing a near-mythical adversary on a vengeful hunt that risks the worlds of both whales and humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NESNess, Patrick.
Summary: At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting— he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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Chapman, Vannetta.
Summary: The Fall Crafters Fair has barely begun in Shipshewana when murder strikes the small town once again ---this time on the property of Daisy's Quilt Shop. It will take all of the sleuthing skills Deborah Yoder and Callie Harper possess to catch the perpetrator. But the stakes are higher than ever before, since the material witness is their best friend's child. Everyone will have to go on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012
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Arnett, Mindee
Summary: Cast out of the nobility after her father's attempt to assassinate the high king, Kate's job as a royal courier brings her to the scene of a drake massacre where she finds Corvin, the king's son and her first love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ARNRoat, Sharon Huss
Summary: Introverted high school student, Vicky Decker, invents a social life on social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROAChapman, Vannetta
Summary: "When Agatha Lapp's brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in a buggy accident, Agatha relocates to the new Amish community in Hunt Texas, nestled in the Texas Hill Country. She's there to make a success of her brother's dream--an Amish B&B. Agatha is friendly, efficient, and capable. She's also a fifty-five year old widow who has learned to be independent. When she discovers Russell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: In her signature style, Vannetta Chapman is back with another cozy Amish mystery with a twist! In A Perfect Square, Amish-English sleuthing duo Deborah Yoder and Callie Harper set out to solve a murder. But more than an innocent man's future is at stake. In book two of the Shipshewana Amish Mystery series, God's grace touches the long-lost past as well as lives shaken by current tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012