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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 MCGLitten, Kristyna
Summary: Bertie the giraffe oversleeps and becomes separated from his herd, but a new friend helps him get home and gives him a new perspective in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LITMcGowan, 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 MCGMcMorris, Kristina.
Summary: Violinist Maddie elopes with Lane Moritomo, the ambitious son of Japanese immigrants, but after Pearl Harbor is bombed, Lane is seen as the enemy and she must sacrifice her Juilliard ambitions when he is interned at a war relocation camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McMorris 2012Riggle, Kristina.
Summary: "Trish isn't perfect. She's divorced and raising two kids-so of course her house isn't pristine. But she's got all the important things right and she's convinced herself that she has it all under control. That is, until the day her youngest son gets hurt and Child Protective Services comes calling. It's at that moment when Trish is forced to consider the one thing she's always hoped wasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RIGAlger, Cristina
Summary: "FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ALGComencini, Cristina.
Summary: Manfred, a surly mountaineer recently abandoned by his wife, rents the upstairs apartment in his home in the Dolomites to Marina, a woman from the city, and her difficult young son. Deeply suspicious by nature, especially of women, Manfred spies obsessively on Marina, in whose shortcomings as a mother he finds resonances of his own mother's desertion of him in childhood. When Marina's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMMcGown, 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 MCGGregory, Kristiana.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA 2McGowan, 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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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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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCGMcGowan, James
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 MCGKristeva, Julia
Summary: Julia Kristeva's dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained lyricism. Reminiscent of The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir's 1954 masterpiece, The Samurai brilliantly reconstructs a pivotal era of postwar French history - Paris in the late 1960s - and at the same time records the political disillusionment and ferment of a generation. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRIKristian, Isaiah
Summary: Follows the intense family life of three brothers living in the shadow of their parents' passionate love, and their own profound sense of family unity and belonging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WEGregory, Kristiana.
Summary: In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREGregory, Kristiana.
Summary: A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001