Summary: After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARGabhart, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABBradley, C. Alan
Summary: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, a series of inexplicable events strikes Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that her family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp pinned to its beak. Later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BRASummary: In the dead of winter, past and present traumas afflict two sisters and their aging father in this, one of Ozu's most heartbreaking and powerful works.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKEnger, L.L.
Summary: "Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy who knows firsthand that life is a gift, and also one who suspects that his father is touched by God and can overturn the laws of nature. The quiet 1960's midwestern life...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ENGPalmer, Diana.
Summary: Appealing to district attorney Rourke Kilpatrick when her troubled brother is arrested on drug charges, naive Rebecca Cullen finds herself falling for this man who might be using her and her family to get to a notorious drug dealer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 1990
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Summary: "Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Dakota State University Press 2018
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BRAWard, Jesmyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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Summary: Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Spinelli 2017Summary: Belle, an animal-loving 12-year-old, becomes withdrawn after her mother's death in an automobile accident. Rebelling against her father, she is sent to live at the horse ranch of her gruff maternal grandfather. With the help of the animals, Belle's work on the farm transforms the entire family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family All 2008Eicher, Jerry S.
Summary: "Ella Yoder has moved into her dream house. In the stillness of the great house, Ella ponders her options. How is she to survive on her own? How will she ever forget Aden? What is to become of her? Two would-be suitors soon make their intentions known, but Ella is unsure of her own feelings. As she agrees to take care of Preacher Stutzman's three motherless girls, Ella's heart is touched by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EICAusten, Jane
Summary: The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, is doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth, until he makes his fortune at sea and returns to claim her as his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOWJames, Erica
Summary: As a young child, Lydia and her sister were sent to live with grandparents they'd never even met. It's a cruel and loveless new world for them and it teaches Lydia to grow up fast. She learns to keep secrets and to trust sparingly. And through it all she suppresses her grief and guilt, believing she is to blame for her mother's death. Now, twenty-eight years later, Lydia is persuaded to leave...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMMorris, Mary McGarry.
Summary: Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, spend that summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. Henry, an itinerant butcher, struggles to provide for them, but often must leave them alone as he travels the county in search of work. And while Henry loves his children deeply, he is devastated by their mother's desertion. He has not told them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORRobards, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Summary: Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011