Ile, Jowhor
Summary: An unforgettable debut novel about a boy who goes missing, a family that is torn apart, and a nation on the brink During the rainy season of 1995, in the bustling town of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, one family's life is disrupted by the sudden disappearance of seventeen-year-old Paul Utu, beloved brother and son. As they grapple with the sudden loss of their darling boy, they embark on a painful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ILEPill, Maggie
Summary: In this second story of the series, our heroes are presented with two crime threads, one hot and one cold. The cold case is half a century old, which is okay, since many residents remember those days like they were yesterday. In 1967, on a warm night in Nashville, Tennessee, someone committed two brutal murders. It’s reported that person now lives in the park, hiding under a new identity. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILHill, Will
Summary: When Jamie Carpenter's mother is kidnapped by strange creatures, he finds himself dragged into Department 19, the government's most secret agency. Fortunately for Jamie, Department 19 can provide the tools he needs to find his mother, and to kill the vampires who want him dead. But unfortunately for everyone, something much older is stirring, something even Department 19 can't stand up against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILRill, Eric.
Summary: A riveting new novel and book club pick from Eric Rill, is about a race against time. The ticking time bomb is Saul Reimer's sanity. His Alzheimer's is going to be the catalyst that will either bring his family together or tear it apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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Summary: "When a midnight murder comes to Allport, Barb is observed conducting one of her 'Correction Events' nearby. The police want to question the Grammar Nazi, and Retta insists the only way to save Barb's reputation is to solve the crime before her secret activities are revealed to the whole town. The victim was a newcomer to Allport who was engaged to marry a local businessman's attractive but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Pill 2018Lewis, Gill.
Summary: When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAUGill, Jim
Summary: This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man's operatic and frustrating quest to eat it. The book is accompanied by a music cd of the opera being performed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jim Gill 2009
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Summary: As a group of refugees huddles together in a rubber dinghy in the middle of the sea at night, one of them uses his violin to tell a story of how the instrument was invented and of a white stallion that ran like the wind, weaving their stories together and giving them hope for freedom in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LEWPaul, Gill
Summary: If you loved "I Am Anastasia" by Ariel Lawhon, you won't want to miss this novel about her sister, Grand Duchess Maria. What really happened to this lost Romanov daughter? A new novel perfect for anyone curious about Anastasia, Maria, and the other lost Romanov daughters, by the author of The Secret Wife. 1918: Pretty, vivacious Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUDel Col, Anthony
Summary: Based on the popular game series, this graphic novel follows a fresh inductee into the modern-day Assassin Brotherhood - as they uncover a conspiracy in their DNA that stretches back hundreds of years! Contains first 5 issues of the "Assassin's Creed" comic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ASSGill, Shelley
Summary: Rhyming text describes the activities and physical characteristics of a variety of birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2019
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Summary: "Meet Detective Zebra and his trusty sidekick, Dot, in their first adventure where they investigate the untimely disappearance of the jam tarts"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2021
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Summary: New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAUHillenbrand, Will
Summary: While camping, Bear tells Mole the story of how the First Bears created the moon and the stars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HILThomas, Will
Summary: "At the request of Her Majesty's government, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker agrees to take on his least favorite kind of assignment--he's to provide security for a secret conference with the French government. The conference is to take place on the private estate of Lord Hargrave on a remote island off the coast of Cornwall. The goal of the conference is the negotiation of a new treaty with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THONa, Il Sung
Summary: While baby animals are born--some with fur and some with scales, some with lots of brothers and sisters, some with none--a curious duck watches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E NAEaves, Will
Summary: Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for "gross indecency with another male" and forced to undergo chemical castration. Set during the devastating period before Turing's suicide, Murmur evokes an extraordinary life, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EAVHobbs, Will
Summary: "Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice though, so he goes. On his first day, he takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Just like that, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all -- he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a potential client dropped dead in his office. When Roland Fitzhugh, Member of Parliament, arrives to consult Barker and his partner Thomas Llewelyn, he falls to the floor, dead, upon entering. As they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: When an upper-class girl goes missing in the East End, rough-hewn private enquiry agent Cyrus Baker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, link her disappearance to the murders of five girls in Bethnal Green before receiving taunting letters from a man with possible ties to a hedonistic gang of debauched aristocrats involved with possible satanic rituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOHill, Edwin
Summary: Two very different sisters, Glenn and Natalie, haunted by the murder of their father twenty years earlier, find the past rushing back when Glenn, a rising star in the baking world, begins receiving ominous messages that could be linked to the events of that night long ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HILHill, Eric
Summary: This fun mix-and-match book offers an array of mismatched outfits perfect for everyone's favorite puppy. Die-cut sections allow little hands to flip through the pages and create several silly combinations. So who does Spot want to be today? A cowboy? A pirate? Now he can be both, and more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Group 2017