Jansson, Tove.
Summary: In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2012
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Johnston, Joan
Summary: Picking up a pretty woman, Grace, at his favorite bar, FBI agent Breed Grayhawk is unaware that she has just finished jail time for murdering her parents and is breaking into her late father's colleagues' homes in search of evidence that will clear her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSmith, Jeff
Summary: A graphic novel which presents the story of the Bone cousins who try to save ancient Atheia from The Hooded One but the time is short, and they must hurry before the city is totally destroyed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix / Scholastic 2008
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Smith 2008Messner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESAlexander, Tamera
Summary: "In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALESummary: Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FOUMatera, Lia.
Summary: Lawyer Willa Jansson, the wisecracking sleuth, stages a phony kidnapping with herself in the role of hostage to permit a falsely accused friend to escape from police. But now they have to evade the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATArthur, Keri.
Summary: Working for an organization that polices supernatural races, Riley Jenson--half werewolf, half vampire--is given the task of infiltrating the heavily guarded pleasure palace of Deshon Star, a criminal mastermind who has been experimenting with genetics for decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ART RJ 5Arthur, Keri.
Summary: Half-vampire, half-werewolf Riley Jenson must use all the dhampire powers at her command as she tracks two vicious serial killers--one who targets high-society strumpets and their lovers, and the other who selects victims with tragic pasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF ARTAlexander, Tamera
Summary: Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee. As a conscripted Confederate soldier he likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin. Catriona leaves their Irish homeland in search of him with their seven-year-old spitfire sister, Nora, hoping to reunite the siblings. Wade Cunningham is a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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Summary: Wilbur, a naked mole rat who likes to wear clothes, is forced to go before the wise community elder, who surprises the other naked mole rats with his pronouncement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WilMacomber, Debbie
Summary: First, drop in at 5-B Poppy Lane, where you'll get a chance to visit with Helen Shelton, her granddaughter Ruth and Ruth's husband, Paul. They'll offer you a cup of mulled cider and the story of how they met--and they'll share Helen's breathtaking adventures during the Second World War. Then drive out to Grace and Cliff Harding's place. They have a small horse ranch not far from Cedar Cove....
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACBoynton, Sandra
Summary: "Starring a little fox child and a big fox parent, here's a loving ode to terrific noses of all kinds. Your Nose! is a celebration of the love between a parent and child--and of the beautiful, BOOP-able noses we love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boynton Bookworks 2020
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Summary: Dhampire Riley Jenson, a hybrid of vampire and werewolf, journeys to Melbourne and into the heart of the city's seductive and dangerous urban underworld to find an enigmatic killer who has been using a nightclub that caters to its denizens' every fantasy as his stalking grounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Book/Bantam Dell 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ART RJ 4Adler, David A.
Summary: When a collectible basketball is stolen from a retiring coach after a game, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ADLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CJ 29Burgess, Sarah
Summary: "Jay often feels that like they are a nobody. Beah, on the other hand, is fierce, charming, athletic--and OBSESSED with the street skipping art, Double Dutch. When the two meet, sparks fly, in this colorful slice-of-life graphic novel about the wonder of platonic friendship and finding your identity. Jay is always scribbling poetry in their notebook. When they come across Skip, a Double Dutch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews Mcmeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BURSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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Summary: While Cam's Aunt Molly is competing in a comedy contest, the expensive plate the winner will receive disappears and Cam and Eric set out to find it before the contest is over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ADLAnstee, Ashlyn
Summary: Adorable art paired with fun-to-read text shows tots all of the ways they can boop a snoot--as in: poke cute animal noses! They can boop one snoot or two snoots, slow snoots and fast snoots. This interactive board book begs to be poked and prodded as toddlers learn to boop the snoot!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE ANSPalmer, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALOxley, Jennifer
Summary: "Peg and Cat are at the South Pole preparing to watch the ski race at the Animal Winter Games. Suddenly they spy the Penguins zooming downhill. CRASH! The Penguins apologize ("Snow problem," says Cat), but it seems that there is a problem: the Penguins keep slamming into things! So they all try again, with Peg shouting directions each time they come to a hurdle. "Go over! Go under! Go in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2016
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Summary: "A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RIOOstertag, Molly
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends ... who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OSTEarhardt, Ainsley
Summary: A celebration of the enduring power of love, told in lullaby form. The author shares her own hopes and dreams, and lets her child know that whatever challenges life brings, "Before you were born, Before you came to be, I dreamed a love song..." and "Take heart, my child, I will-- or, my love will-- always be there for you." It's a universal message, one that all readers will relate to. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2016