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Action and adventure television programs Anti-globalization movement Beijing (China) History China History City and town life England Drama Eccentrics and eccentricities England Drama England Forbidden City (Beijing, China) Murder Investigation Fiction Women private investigators FictionSachar, Louis
Summary: A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SACAbtahi, Olivia
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Azar Rossi sets out to find her voice and win her local Battle of the Bands contest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ABTOffutt, Chris
Summary: "Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town. It's Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney's mother, Shifty, asks Mick to take a look, it seems there's more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFFWillberg, T. A.
Summary: "The envelope was tied with three delicate silk ribbons: 'One of the new recruits is not to be trusted...' It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London, having baffled Scotland Yard. The newspapers call him The Florist because of the rose he brands on his victims. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers at Miss Brickett's for assistance, and second-year Marion Lane is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILTrine, Greg.
Summary: As Melvin and Candace continue their crime-fighting work as superheroes, the McNasty Brothers, the McNasty Sisters, and the school bullies all plot to get even with them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED TRIDiehl, William.
Summary: In Chicago, a series of murders has the hallmark of Aaron Stampler, the altar boy who butchered a bishop and whom lawyer Martin Vail saved from the electric chair. But Stampler is in jail--unless. The nagging thought sends Vail into a panic when his woman becomes a target. By the author of Primal Fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIEHLDoctorow, Cory
Summary: The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Effinger, George Alec.
Summary: "Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence. Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world. During...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EFFGear, Kathleen O'Neal
Summary: In the brutal Ice Age caused by the ancient Jemen war, many archaic human species, including Denisovans and Homo erectus, hover on the verge of extinction. There seems no way out, until the greatest Neanderthal holy man, Trogon, has a vision. Legends say the truce that ended the old war left one hostage in the hands of the victorious rebels: the god-like Jemen leader, known as the Old Woman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEACarcaterra, Lorenzo
Summary: A wealthy woman alleges a valuable necklace was stolen from her hotel room on island of Ischia. The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect-- a young woman who is Nonna Maria's goddaughter. She takes the heat, but privately, she proclaims her innocence. Then the body of an unidentified...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARDekker, Ted
Summary: "Enter the world of Millie Maven, a twelve-year-old orphan who embarks on a great adventure that takes her to the distant, mysterious world of FIGS, the FarPointe Institute for Gifted Students. There, she discovers that there is more to her than she ever dared imagine or believe . . . and that there are some truths that change everything" --from the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Ted Dekker] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Series DekkerSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SALMartin, Kat.
Summary: Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious. All six feet three obscenely wealthy, good-looking inches of him. His sixty-year-old father, Stewart, a former state senator no less, has impregnated a teenager. Barely able to contain his anger, Beau is in for another surprise. It appears that Stewart has moved an entirely different woman into the house. Beau assumes that stunning Cassidy Jones is his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARSummary: "The second season of Merlin sees our hero battle deadly assassins, magical monsters and ever more powerful sorcerers as he strives to fulfill his destiny as Prince Arthur's protector. All the while, Merlin must work harder than ever to conceal his growing magical powers, as King Uther redoubles his war against magic. Merlin faces his most formidable opponent yet as an ancient evil buried deep...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADVSmith, Emma Bland
Summary: "The McNallys stop at a Colorado lodge for the night and by morning, they are snowed in! While looking for a place to study, Gavin and his sister, Chloe, go through a door into a dark hallway. The door locks behind them, and it's getting colder by the second. Will Gavin and Chloe have to weather the blizzard in the dark, frozen passage?"--Page [4] cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SMICard, Orson Scott.
Summary: Alvin Maker is drawn into the political manueverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARWilliams, Timothy.
Summary: April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean departement of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises--for example,the fact that every witness Anne Marie interviews grills her about when she's going to get remarried. She is only just starting to investigate the increasingly suspicious suicide of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILLee, Stan
Contents: [1] Reprinting Fantastic four, nos. 1-10 -- [4] Reprinting the Fantastic four, nos. 31-40 & Fantastic four annual no. 2.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 1987
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEELee, Stan
Contents: [1] Reprinting Fantastic four, nos. 1-10 -- [4] Reprinting the Fantastic four, nos. 31-40 & Fantastic four annual no. 2.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 1987
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEEMaihack, Mike
Summary: "During an average morning of heroic deeds, Spider-Man is interrupted by the Fantastic Four and Namor with distressing news: The great underwater city of Atlantis has disappeared, and the heroes need Spider-Man's help to find it! While Spider-Man takes on the uncertain mission hoping not to disappoint the heroes... But when other super heroes start going missing around the city, Spidey realizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SPISummary: The doctor flees to a coastal village to reassess his marriage and his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Centuries ago, they performed miraculously technical brain surgery, built modern irrigation canals, made agricultural discoveries still used by modern man, and were master builders...the Incas were mysterious people, once ruling half of South America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Monterey Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INCSummary: Satisfying one's hunger is a primal act which most Westerners never connect to global issues. But the diets and farming systems of wealthy countries can be directly linked to starvation in the underdeveloped world. This program sheds light on the international tragedy of hunger and malnutrition, emphasizing that the problem is one of distribution, not production. Filmed in Asia, South America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008