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England Fiction Familles monoparentales Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Familles pauvres Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Hill, Judy (Fictitious character) Fiction Jesus Christ Fiction Lloyd, Inspector (Fictitious character) Fiction Personnes en difficulté d'apprentissage Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Police England Fiction Policewomen Fiction Women journalists FictionSummary: In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: Things are getting tense at home for Nicky and Kenny as they wait for a visit from their estranged mother. To escape, they go for a walk on the moors, taking their little Jack Russell terrier with them. But what should have been a laugh, a lark, turns deadly when the weather changes and they are caught in a blizzard. Nothing will ever be quite the same again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCGMcGowan, Kathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGMcGowan, Jed
Summary: A nameless alien data compiler comes to Earth to study humans, setting up shop on the outskirts of a small desert community in North America. Working under forced labor, it must watch humans in complete secrecy while sending regular reports to its manager back home. Using spore-like technology to read the minds of his hosts, the alien quickly takes a special interest in Will, one of his early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCGMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: "When Kenny and Nicky rescue a rook left for dead, Kenny is determined to keep it alive. Nicky doubts the scruffy bird will make it, but then Nicky has plenty else to worry about. This time, it's not his dad or Kenny who needs help--his dad's sorting his life out and Kenny's busy making plans with his new best friend. Now it's Nicky's turn to struggle--with a school bully, his first love, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCGMcGowan, Claire
Summary: "A vicious assault. A devastating accusation. Who should she trust, her husband or her best friend? It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McGMcGowan, Kathleen
Summary: Maureen Pascal uncovers a scandal in Renaissance Italy and must face a descendant of the mad monk Savonarola and a 500-year-old vendetta that threatens Maureen's life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCGMcGowan, Kathleen.
Summary: Maureen learns about Matilda, an eleventh-century warrior countess who was secretly married to a pope, and begins to see the eerie connections between herself and Matilda-- connections she must trace to their source if she is to stop the wrong people from finding the Book of Love and hiding it forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGMcGowan, Kathleen.
Summary: Journalist Maureen Paschal discovers that she is destined to play a key role in an international quest to gain control of a priceless series of scrolls, written in the first century by Mary Magdalene and hidden in the wilds of the French Pyrenees.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCGMcGown, Jill.
Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd and his partner/fiancee Judy Hill investigate a kidnapping as well as a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MCGMcGown, Jill.
Summary: Detective Chief Inspectors Lloyd and Hill spearhead a high-profile investigation into the murder of Wilma Fenton, a woman killed the same night she won a huge pot at bingo, as they confront a series of apparently motiveless killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MCGMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: Life's not easy for Nicky. His mother is gone, his dad's out on bail, and his older brother, Kenny, needs looking after like a little kid. When Kenny drags Nicky out of bed one dark morning, Nicky has no idea that he is about to witness a terrible act of destruction, and the senseless killing of an innocent animal. But Nicky manages to save something precious from the disaster, and his and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCGMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: When Kenny and Nicky spot a glint of gold in the murky waters of Bacon Pond, they can't leave it alone. It means money, and money helps patch things up when you haven't got any. But sometimes it's better not to look too deep. Not when there are local gangsters involved, and tough questions about your own family's past. But Nicky can't help looking back. He knows it's a bad idea, and it could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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Summary: An interplanetary detective, Opportunity, aka Oppy, shares her adventures on the Red Planet, taking thousands of pictures and making groundbreaking discoveries that she transmits back to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCGMcGowan, Kathleen.
Summary: Maureen Pascal uncovers a scandal in Renaissance Italy and must face a descendant of the mad monk Savonarola and a 500-year-old vendetta that threatens Maureen's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOMcGahan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGMcGown, Jill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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Summary: When teen hacker and foster child Wick Tate finds a dead classmate's diary on her front step, with a note reading "Find me," she sets off on a perverse game of hide-and-seek to catch the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Childrens Books 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAGrossman, Vasily
Summary: "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROShamsie, Kamila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHARowser, Jamila
Summary: "A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWShamsie, Kamila
Summary: July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the tallest of men. Nearby is the familiar lean form of her father's old friend, Tahsin Bey, an archaeologist. Viv is about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure and the ecstasy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atavist Books 2014