Connolly, Sheila
Summary: "The first in a brand-new series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job supervising every aspect of the day-to-day operations of a high-end boutique hotel on the Baltimore waterfront. Then her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEACarter, Ally
Summary: April thought she'd saved the day. With Gabriel declared guardian of the orphans at Winterborne House, everything should have been perfect. But with Izzy and Smithers away and social services snooping around, things are not quite right at Winterborne House. Gabriel isn't exactly the father figure the kids were hoping for and, when it seems like the long-lost heir might be lost (maybe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CARCotton Valent
Summary: "CREEP UP, CREEP OUT, CREEP...OVER?! Flora has vanquished her enemies and settled into life in a haunted mansion with the interdimensional Creepy Cat--but one day Creepy vanishes! Can Flora depend on Police Officer Oscar to find Creepy, or will the case of Oscar's own missing supernatural pets get in the way? Gloom is assured, and happiness not at all guaranteed in this final volume of Creepy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CRENewman, Harry Wright
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1967
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3752 NewmaSweren-Becker, Daniel
Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy . . . and an entertaining national obsession in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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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 ALESmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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Summary: "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAlexander, 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: "Flora moves into a mysterious mansion and finds it inhabited by a strange creature--Creepy Cat! Thus begins her strange and sometimes dangerous life with a feline roommate. This Gothic comedy brings the chuckles ... and the chills!"--Amazon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CREHerbert, A. L.
Summary: Halia Watkins, the owner of a well-loved soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland, investigates after a smooth-talking, shady entrepreneur turns up murdered in her kitchen, right next to her cast iron frying pan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERMessner, Kate
Summary: This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESBurch, Ciera
Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Summary: "2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILCotton Valent
Summary: "Flora has settled into her haunted mansion with the increasingly bizarre and mischievous Creepy Cat! It's a nice life, if she can keep it, but what will Flora do when sneaky assassins come for her? Will she end up as one more ghost in her own house, or will Creepy Cat out-prowl and out-swat those bad boys? The scary-cute adventure continues!"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CREYoung, Skottie
Summary: Gert finally realizes that being such a murderous maniac might be the reason she's not been able to find her way out of the candy-coated world of Fairyland that has been her nightmare for over forty years. She sets off on a new quest to redeem herself and tries to earn her way back home with good deeds and kindness and love an whatever other mushy, touchy-feely things she can manage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOUSalerni, Dianne K.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Garnet regrets that she doesn't know her family. Her mother has done her best to keep it that way, living far from the rest of the magical Carrefour clan and their dark, dangerous mansion known as Crossroad House. But when Garnet finally gets summoned to the estate, it isn't quite what she hoped for. Then Garnet learns the family secret: their dying patriarch fights to retain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SALYoung, Skottie
Summary: Follow Gert, a forty year old woman stuck in a six year olds body who has been stuck in the magical world of Fairyland for nearly thirty years. Join her and her giant battle-axe on a delightfully blood soaked journey to see who will survive the girl who HATES FAIRYLAND.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOUSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENLippman, Laura
Summary: When a lurid expose mysteriously appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light and causes a business tycoon to commit suicide in his garage, private investigator Tess Monaghan takes on the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIPNaylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Summary: As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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Summary: When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2017