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Murray, Albert

Summary: "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUR

Stafford, Jean

Summary: Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Portis, Charles

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POR

Macdonald, Ross

Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Summary: Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1982

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STO

Keller, Shana

Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE FIC KEL

Gray, Shelley Shepard.

Summary: Beth Byler met Englischer Chris Ellis while helping out at the Yellow Bird Inn, and can't stop thinking about him. She knows a relationship could never go anywhere-- Chris was working undercover in Crittenden County as a DEA agent. He faced danger daily and carried a gun, making him completely unsuitable for an Amish woman like herself. When Chris returns three days before Christmas, he is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Logan, Kylie

Summary: The League of Literary Ladies is currently enjoying Margaret Mitchell's saga of the South, Gone with the Wind. But there's one situation on South Bass Island that they wish would simply blow over. Kidnapped as teenagers, the children of a famous movie star are now media darlings after a miraculous escape. What's next for the celebrity twins? They're opening an over-the-top B and B called Tara...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LOG

Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: "A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUM

Brezenoff, Steven

Summary: While cramming for her spelling test at an old library, Avery suddenly finds the words of her vocabulary workbook coming alive and wrapping around her --it is a cursed book, created by the evil Spellbinder, and only the Librarian can help her escape from the trap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRE

Mauleón, Daniel

Summary: Pablo, twelve, and his younger brother Alex find a book on extreme weather, only to discover the book does not just discribe weather, it creates it--and only the Librarian can control the book's power.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAU

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake

Summary: "In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Noopiming' braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Brezenoff, Steven

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Dace finds a strange book in an antique dresser, and upon opening it he releases The Oldest Trick, an ancient evil which traps the boy in a fake nightmarish world--and only The Librarian can show him how to break the spell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRE (Graphic Novel)

Brezenoff, Steven

Summary: Whitney and Ben are two middle school students on a field trip to a college library for a research project; but the bored teens venture through a door marked "Special Collection Sinister History" and meet the evil Archivist who collects tales of the world's oldest, most terrifying creatures and uses magic to bring them to life--she is looking to bring a local legend called The Stalker into the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRE (Graphic Novel)

Brezenoff, Steven

Summary: Shay Isley loves to read but she has become bored by the usual stories so she turns to the horror section and finds the book, Attack of the Moon Beast; but when night comes this book turns into a monster, part werewolf and part book--and only the Librarian can save her and her little brother from becoming its prey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRE

Brezenoff, Steven

Summary: Asher Symon falls behind in his reading assignments and is summoned before the ominous Sentencer for reading crimes, but will the boy face a lifetime sentence of punishment, or can the mighty Librarian prove a slower learning pace is no crime?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRE

Thorland, Donna.

Summary: "British Occupied Manhattan, 1777. With her witty comedies, American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recent success on the Continent, she seizes the opportunity to court his patronage. But her plan is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, Published by the Penguin Group 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Thorland, Donna

Summary: Rebel Kate Gray cannot resist the advances of British Major Peter Tremayne, but after a member of her own family steals his military dispatches, Peter, having narrowly escaped hanging, vows to get revenge on Kate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Thorland, Donna.

Summary: "1775, Boston Harbor. The gold is Spanish, the sloop is American, and the captain is dead. James Sparhawk, master and commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he's boarded is carrying ammunition for ballast and a fortune in foreign gold ... into a country on the very knife's edge of war. Sparhawk's duty is clear: confiscate the bullion, impound the vessel, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Thorland, Donna

Summary: "The acclaimed author of Mistress Firebrand and The Turncoat continues "her own revolution in American historical romance"* with another smart, sexy, swashbuckling novel set during the American Revolution. Manhattan and the Hudson River Valley, 1778. The British control Manhattan, the Rebels hold West Point, and the Dutch patroons reign in feudal splendor over their vast Hudson River Valley...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Snicket, Lemony

Summary: After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Adams, Douglas

Summary: In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADA

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