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Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHE

Forbes, Lani

Summary: Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome. A river of blood and demons disguised as children are only two of the challenges standing in their way. Fortunately Mayana's royal blood controls the power of water, and Prince Ahkin wields the power of the sun itself....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOR

Forbes, Lani

Summary: "Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer--until fate took a turn. Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away. As 'Black Cat Whitfield,' adopted daughter of an outlaw, she's wanted by the authorities. It certainly wasn't the destiny she imagined--especially as one of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOR

Forbes, Lani

Summary: To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime--the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOR

Forbes, Lani

Summary: Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOR

Alai

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALA

Bandi

Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BAN

Taylor, Laini.

Summary: "The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAY

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYL

McEntire, Myra.

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Emerson uses her power to manipulate time to help Michael, a consultant hired by her brother, to prevent a murder that happened six months ago while simultaneously navigating their undeniable attraction to one another.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCE

Lanh, Andrew

Summary: Investigating the suspicious shooting death of one of the beautiful Le sisters, half-Vietnamese private investigator Rick Van Lam immerses himself in a hostile community where he uncovers dark secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAN

Taylor, Laini

Summary: In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle with their new boundaries as Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: YA PA FIC TAY

Lanh, Andrew

Summary: Rick van Lam is bui doi , "a child of dust," as the Vietnamese scornfully called a mixed-blood kid whose father was an unknown American GI. But Rick was lucky-in time he was sent to America. And he's ended up in Hartford, Connecticut, where he's made a life as a private eye after leaving a career as a cop at the NYPD. Rick is also teaching a part-time course at Farmington College where brainy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAN

Zumas, Leni

Summary: Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZUM

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Zumas 2018

Lanh, Andrew

Summary: When the body of Marta Kowalski, a simple woman who cleaned houses for a living, is found under the Farmington River Bridge, the police write it off as a suicide. But Marta's niece thinks otherwise and hires Rick Van Lam to dig deeper into the affluent Farmington community for evidence of murder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAN

Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAM

Taylor, Laini

Summary: In the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a hero, a librarian, and a girl must battle the fantastical elements of a mysterious city stripped of its name.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Taylor, Laini

Summary: "Don't you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, that's how Billie Blaster's day is going! The genius child of two famous scientists, Billie is an inventor extraordinaire and the star of the annual science fair, much to the disgust of her nemesis, Tiny Hector Glum....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TAY

Taylor, Laini

Summary: "Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Jacobs, Lana

Summary: Angelina and her friends plant a flower garden at their school. But the next day, the birds ruin all of their hard work. Can Angelina save her beautiful garden?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN JAC

McIntyre, Vonda N.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCI

Cao, Lan

Summary: "An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut, Monkey Bridge, won her wide renown for "connecting . .. the opposite realities of Vietnam and America" (Isabel Allende). In her triumphant new novel, Cao transports readers back to the war,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cao 2014

Cao, Lan.

Summary: A memoir of a Vietnamese refugee. The narrator, Mai Nguyen, was 13 when a helicopter lifted her from Saigon. Scenes of war written in lyrical Oriental style alternate with reflections on America, such as the obsession with winning and the usurping of parental authority by teachers. By the author of Everything You Need to Know about Asian Americans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAO

Ferguson, Lana

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A woman discovers the father of the child she is nannying may be her biggest (Only)Fan in this steamy contemporary romance by Lana Ferguson. After losing her job and being on the brink of eviction, Cassie Evans finds herself with two choices: get a new job (and fast) or fire up her long-untouched OnlyFans account. But there are no jobs to be found, and as for OnlyFans. . . . Well, there are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023

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