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Summary: An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination. It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbery, Muriel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.6 FIC BARGarbera, Katherine
Summary: "As a lonely foster kid, Serafina Conte sought refuge in handmaking journals -- and writing her wishes within their pages. Now, in the quirky new age store she shares with her two best friends, Sera's intentions have paid off. Her journals are in the spotlight -- and rumored to manifest great things. Whether it's witchy skills, real magic, or not, Sera's finally ready to be the leading lady of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GARGrant, Libbie
Summary: In 1827, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger who claims he can speak directly to God. In a few short years, Joseph Smith will found his own religion, gain tens of thousands of zealous followers and fracture Emma's life and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRAHobbie, Holly.
Summary: Toot and Puddle celebrate Christmas and learn that the best kind of present for the best kind of friend is one that shows just how much you care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HobHobbie, Nathaniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Young Readers 2010
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HOBBarnard, Robert.
Summary: Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: Eric Wallace is sick of secrets. As a Black queer teen, Eric's efforts to conform to fit his parents' and classmates' expectations have left him exhausted by the summer after senior year. When Eric finds out his pastor father has been cheating on his mother, his picture-perfect family crumbles. Eric rages at the double standards he's been held to. He travels to Los Angeles with his best friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARHambly, Barbara
Summary: "Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad -- the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime. Since Cain can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers LTD 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2016Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHambly, Barbara.
Summary: "When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the Church of St. Clare Pieds-Nus with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, his wife, Lydia, knows of only one person to call: the vampire Don Simon Ysidro. Old friend and old adversary, he is the only one who can help Lydia protect her unconscious, fevered husband from the vampires of Paris. Why James has been attacked --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2015Lehman, Barbara.
Summary: In this wordless picture book, a boy finds a mysterious key which leads him on an adventure one rainy day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Lehman 2007Allan, Barbara.
Summary: While dealing with morning sickness, her bipolar mother, and the citywide antiques bazaar, Brandy Borne must also deal with murder when a ninety-year-old Russian widow donates a priceless antique that is not what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLBaker, Barbara
Summary: On a Saturday evening, the members of a bear family busy themselves with cleaning up the kitchen, taking baths, and reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR GREEN BAKHambly, Barbara
Summary: "New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kingsolver 2018Lehman, Barbara.
Summary: A book about a book, a magical red book, without any words, and the friendship that develops around it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott LehmanO'Neal, Barbara
Summary: From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth. Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news ... Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It's what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'NEAllan, Barbara
Summary: "It happened at Serenity's swap meet, right after Brandy Borne and her ever-more-eccentric mother Vivian finished shooting the pilot for their very own TV show, Antiques Sleuths. Brandy just, well, lost her balance and fell...into the helpful arms of an old flame, local tycoon Wesley Sinclair III. But did Brandy's innocent slip lead to the murder of Wesley's wife, Vanessa?"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLBourland, Barbara
Summary: "Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated. After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed. With a collar of pearls locked around her throat and a rope of diamonds leashing her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOUDelinsky, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELHambly, Barbara.
Summary: When James Asher and his wife Lydias baby daughter Miranda is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, the stakes are high; blindly follow the Master Vampires instructions, keep out of the way of the human networks that serves the vampires, destroy the interloper who seeks to seize control of the London Nest, and find the key to the Nests tortuous inner workings: The Book of the Kindred of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambley 2013Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: James Asher must once again form an unholy alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as the two of them investigate cave-dwelling zombies in 1912 China, all while the notorious Peking vampires plan their own sinister agenda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2012Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: "Vampire Don Simon Ysido has been captured and held aboard a ship heading to the US to act as a slave, and Dr Lydia Asher must stop it...at any cost. March, 1917. The goal of every government involved in the Great War has been achieved: industrialist Spenser Cochran has drugged and enslaved a vampire, Don Simon Ysidro, to do his bidding, and is now on the way to the US aboard a luxury ship....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019