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Summary: "Marigold "Goldie" Vance is curious, quick-witted, and dreams of becoming a world-famous detective. She lives and works at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel in Florida, with a whole slew of characters: her dad, Art, the manager of the joint; Cheryl Lebeaux, Goldie's best friend; and Walter Tooey, the hotel detective. Her mom, Sylvie, works nearby at the Mermaid Club. While life at the Crossed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: A sequel to "The Hotel Whodunit" finds Goldie teaming up with Derek, an overeager part-time magician and detective to uncover a saboteur who is targeting a magical arts convention being hosted at the Crossed Palms hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: In early 1960s Florida, sixteen-year-old Goldie, an aspiring detective at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel, investigates when a diamond-encrusted swim cap goes missing during the filming of a movie at the resort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIVWilliams, Fiona
Summary: "Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBrown, William Wells
Summary: Includes memoirs, travel writings, fiction, and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROFaulkner, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION FaulknerBrown, William Wells
Summary: "At a slave auction, a beautiful teenage girl, her sister, and her mother are sold as William Wells Brown's 1853 novel Clotel begins. In making his title character the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Brown takes advantage of a scandalous and - until recently - unconfirmed rumor. Clotel's new owner falls in love with her, gets her pregnant, seems to promise marriage - then sells her. A fast-paced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004