Houston, Pam.
Summary: "In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey," says the narrator in the collection's title story. "But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUHouston, Victoria
Summary: When the bodies of a wealthy Chicago industrialist and his wife are discovered in their summer home at the same time that a local lawyer disappears, life becomes complicated for Loon Lake Chief of Police Lew Ferris. Relying on the forensic dental expertise of her close friend and acting coroner, Doc Osborne, Lew soon finds the investigations are even more complicated than she thought when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUHousman, Ivelisse
Summary: Iselia "Seelie" Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde...but as an autistic changeling left in the human world by the fae as an infant, she has always known she is different. Seelie's unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in---and draws her and Isolde into the hunt for a fabled treasure. In a heist gone wrong, the sisters make some unexpected allies and find themselves unraveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOUBoyce, S.M.
Summary: Ourean legends of the First Vagabond have survived a thousand years, blossoming in pubs and alleys even as the great Bloods of Ourea tried to squelch his name. But the myths glorify the deeds and forget the man he was—Cedric, a boy from a small Hillsidian farming village. As a young man, Cedric discovers a terrifying defect in his nature. He has no blood loyalty, which means he can defy his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: S.M. Boyce 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBoyce, S.M.
Summary: Before Stone trained Kara Magari or taught the First Vagabond to master the Blood loyalty, he was nothing more than a slave boy named Terric. Terric is a curious loner hellbent on reading his master’s forbidden books. When one heist goes wrong, Terric abandons his old life and runs for freedom—only to fall prey to a ruthless man named Niccoli. Niccoli is an isen—a creature of magic from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: S.M. Boyce 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYPoston, Ashley
Summary: Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale-inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard. Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy Poston 2020Poston, Ashley
Summary: Return to the geek-tastic world of Starfield fandom with a tale of a superstar and a superfan who swap lives in this sweet and funny companion novel to GEEKERELLA. Movie star Jessica Stone can't go up onstage at another con and pretend to love Starfield anymore--except that she's contractually obligated. She never dreamed she'd be playing Princess Amara for life, but people love Princess Amara,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POSMoulton, Deke
Summary: Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat... just drink a little blood. They're vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family. Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in his life (well, immortal life) than just drinking blood, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOUPoston, Ashley
Summary: "Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSHutton, Callie
Summary: "Bath, England, 1891. Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with Lord William Wethington, but on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mrs. Alice Finch's argument with her husband, Albert. The next morning, Alice falls face-first into her breakfast--dead. The detectives charge Albert with the murder, but there are too many things that don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUTHobson, Melanie
Summary: Summoned to their magnificent family home on the shores of Lake Ontario--a paradisiacal mansion perched on an escarpment above the city--three adult sisters Georgina, Jax, and Pippa, come together in what seems like an act of family solidarity. Pregnant and unwell, the youngest, Pippa, has left her husband and four young children in New Zealand and returned home to heal. But home to this family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBHiggins, Cam
Summary: Bo and his pig pal Zonk play in the mud together, but when Zonk's pet rock Rocky gets chipped and Zonk is upset, Bo must learn how to be a good, supportive friend to Zonk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HIGHiggins, Cam
Summary: Bo Davis, a sheepdog puppy, gets help from his farm friends when he has trouble herding sheep and climbing on rocks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Tara Maclay is at the center of a slew of unsolved murders in her new town and when the suspicion falls on her, she must find a way to reconnect with her absent magic and team up with the mysterious and distractingly cute, Daphne Frost who is hiding more than one secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POSHobson, Brandon
Summary: Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: Rambunctious puppy Bo, who lives with his human family on a farm, loses his dog tag and enlists his barnyard animal friends to help him find it. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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Summary: Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HURCarney-Coston, Barbara
Summary: In 1886, 11-year-old Mihaela embarks on a journey from Croatia to the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. Mihaela's papa had made the trip two years beforehand in order to work the copper mines so that he could send money back home, but a painful eye disease has left him vulnerable in a new land and in need of the skills of his wife, an expert healer. And so Mihaela,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARHiggins, Cam
Summary: Farm puppy Bo introduces a young foal to life on the farm.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HIGHay, Sam
Summary: "Camp Lil Vills heats up when Hades arrives determined to win camp contests by any means necessary"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DisneyHyperion 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HAYHay, Sam
Summary: A simple day at the beach for Evie and her friends quickly spirals into chaos, filled with ice cream, film crews, magical disguises, dogs of all shapes and sizes, and a surprisingly secretive fairy-tale figure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAYTaplin, Sam
Summary: "Little penguin is hiding! Children will love searching for the penguin by peeping through the holes in this endearingly illustrated book. Each time they turn the page, what they thought was the penguin turns out to be something else, until finally they find it at the end"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing. 2021
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Summary: Find the Easter eggs hidden by the Easter Bunny in this lift-the-flap book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2012