Foster, Harold R. (Harold Rudolf)
Summary: This volume leads off with the epic ten-month saga of Val's globe-trotting search for Aleta through Nothern Africa, with stops in Jerusalem, the Arabic deserts (including an eye-popping visit to a harem), and ultimately the "Misty Isles." But their romance is not destined to be (at least not yet) and so a disappointed, even embittered Val wends his eventful way back to Camelot - encountering en...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 741.5 FOSPolydoros, Aden
Summary: "Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLRader-Day, Lori
Summary: Using her skills as a handwriting analyst to assist a local murder and kidnapping investigation, Anna identifies disturbing parallels between the crimes and her own struggles to protect her troubled teen son from her abusive ex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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Summary: "Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House--the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie--in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLLepucki, Edan
Summary: "Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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Summary: Martin and his mother talk about Martin's worries about starting school, while his little sister wishes that she was old enough to go, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: minedition 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AUBWan, Michelle
Summary: Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who's tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they're sent to shake rent out of. One night Keno and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANHan, Kang
Summary: "In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2023
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Summary: "Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANDadey, Debbie
Summary: "Shelly, Echo, Kiki, and Pearl are spending their school vacation at Neptune's castle! Shelly's aunt, Queen Edwina, has invited the girls to stay for a whole week, and while they're there the girls can't wait to visit the Royal Orca Museum, see the Palace Library, ride seahorses, and maybe even attend a royal ball. Shelly is nervous about meeting her royal family, especially since she's never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2019
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Summary: Rhyming text illustrates how small acts become powerful seeds that improves oneself and the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Summary: Exiled hero Justin Cord works to outmaneuver a power-hungry corporate Earth society that has launched an interplanetary war in order to regain control over the outer planets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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Summary: "Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: After betraying her two best friends, eighteen-year-old Willa spends the week of her high school graduation going through a memory box commemorating important moments of the three girls' friendship in order to try to save it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAMTan, June CL
Summary: Rui has one goal in mind, honing her magic to avenge her mother's death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet, had he been born with magic. Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble, and the human world will be next if the King is not found. When an accident causes Rui's power to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to spark a new war in the Middle East, and ultimately destroy Israel. Cabrillo's crew of the Oregon have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MADHashimi, Nadia
Summary: When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: Dog Man is down on his luck, Petey confronts his not so purr-fect past, and Grampa is up to no good. The world is spinning out of control as new villains spill into town. Everything seems dark and full of despair. But hope is not lost. Can the incredible power of love save the day?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Summary: Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever." The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Brown 2017Brown, Dan
Summary: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gustav Lübbe Verlag 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.3 FIC BROGutman, Dan
Summary: "It's very important for kids to learn about fire safety, and Mrs. Meyer of the local fire department has been brought in to teach the students at Ella Mentry School. But she is the weirdest safety expert in the world. She likes fire just a little too much. Will Mrs. Meyer catch on fire? Will she retire? What will transpire?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTJolley, Dan.
Summary: Ravenpaw, having been forced from his home by rogue cats, teams up with Firestar and the ThunderClan warriors to get revenge and reclaim the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2010
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Summary: Priscilla Cilla Lee-Jenkins has just finished her (future) bestselling memoir, and now she's ready to write a Classic. This one promises to have everything: romance, adventure, and plenty of drama like Cilla's struggles to be more Chinese, to be the perfect flower girl at Aunt Eva's wedding, and to learn how to share her best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018