Montes, Raphael
Summary: "A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontes, Raphael
Summary: A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Rahal, Eliot
Summary: "Spanning nearly a century in time, The Vain chronicles the criminal lives of four sinful and stylish blood bank-robbing vampires. Chicago, 1941. A blood bank is held up in a robbery, but no cash is taken--only blood. It's the latest in a string of similar robberies and as the United States prepares to enter World War II, FBI Agent Felix Franklin is certain it's part of a wider plot to weaken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RAHMurdock, Catherine Gilbert
Summary: "This is the story of ... A kitten who becomes a cat. A hostage who becomes a champion. A reader who becomes a detective. An artist who becomes a thief. A soldier who becomes a builder. An inventor who leaves a mystery. A painter who changes the world. But mostly, this is a story about a boy and a girl who slip through time and history. A boy and a girl who follow that cat into an unforgettable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MURAllen, Rachael
Summary: "Skyler, Ellie, Scarlett, and Amelia Grace are forced to spend the summer at the lake house where their moms became best friends. One can't wait. One would rather gnaw off her own arm than hang out with a bunch of strangers just so their moms can drink too much wine and sing Journey at two o'clock in the morning. Two are sisters. Three are currently feuding with their mothers. One is hiding how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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Summary: "The moment Spencer meets Hope the summer before seventh grade, it's ... something at first sight. He knows she's special, possibly even magical. The pair become fast friends, climbing trees and planning world travels. After years of being outshone by his older brother and teased because of his Tourette syndrome, Spencer finally feels like he belongs. But as Hope and Spencer get older and life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLLippincott, Rachael
Summary: Stella Grant likes to be in control, even though her out-of-control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. Now she needs to keep herself away five feet away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Then she meets Will Newman, another boy in the hospital and exactly what Stella needs to stay away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LIPVerne, Jules
Summary: This book tells the story of Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman who makes a fantastic trip as a bet. His adventures, with his French manservant Passepartout, by railway, steamship and elephant see him travel around the world pursued relentlessly by a detective who mistakes the traveler for a notorious criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VER FRENCHFoster, Sara
Summary: Tom Carruso left home soon after Lizzie Burdett disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's disappearance, intent on telling his side of the story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FOSFoody, Amanda
Summary: After the publication of a salacious tell-all book, the remote city of Ilvernath is thrust into worldwide spotlight. Tourists, protesters, and reporters flock to its spellshops and ruins to witness an ancient curse unfold: every generation, seven families name a champion among them to compete in a tournament to the death. The winner awards their family exclusive control over the city's high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FOOKhoury, Raymond
Summary: Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom, naked, covered in strange tattoos, to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for 300 years, ever since its fall, along with all of Europe, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KHOSummary: A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGBunzl, Peter
Summary: When her father goes missing, thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman must team up with a clockmaker's son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance and his world-changing invention, a perpetual motion machine called the Cogheart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016