Summary: When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANINix, Garth
Summary: This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIXNix, Garth
Summary: Lirael is no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, with dead creatures to battle and Free Magic entities to bind. She's also a Remembrancer, wielder of the Dark Mirror. Lirael lost one of her hands in the binding of Orannis, but now she has a new hand, one of gilded steel and Charter Magic. When Lirael finds Nicholas Sayre lying unconscious after being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NIXMull, Brandon
Summary: Whisked through a portal to The Outskirts, an in-between world, sixth-grader Cole must rescue his friends and find his way back home--before his existence is forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MULCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MULSummary: David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOWesterfeld, Scott
Summary: Don't call them heroes, but these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't -- like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren't exactly best friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC WESHenning, Sarah
Summary: "When her warrior father, King Sendoa, mysteriously dies, Princess Amarande of Ardenia is given what would hardly be considered a choice: marry a stranger at sixteen or lose control of her family's crown. But Amarande was raised to be a warrior-not a sacrifice. In an attempt to force her choice, a neighboring kingdom kidnaps her true love, stable boy Luca. With her kingdom on the brink of civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2020
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Summary: "Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACSummary: The kids from Odyssey manage to get themselves into--and out of--all kinds of interesting predicaments. And with a little prodding from John Avery Whittaker, they learn how God can help them deal with anything!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CDA Juv AdvCherezińska, Elżbieta
Summary: "Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Widow Queen is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now. The bold one, they call her-too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for an alliance. Three marriages on which to build his empire. But Swietoslawa refuses to be simply a pawn in her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Raised as a slave, Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the façade when he becomes fascinated with the beautiful black woman he rescued in the desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JENDasGupta, Sayantani
Summary: Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: "Mine owner Barnabas T. Bullion is determined to shelter his daughter Abby from the Wild West, but she ignores him and sneaks into the Big Thunder Mountain gold mine. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPFreethy, Barbara
Summary: "In a flash of lightning, news photographer Alicia Monroe sees an apparent murder. Rushing she to the scene, she finds only a military tag belonging to a woman who has been missing for over a year. Her search for the missing woman takes her into the heart of Miami's Cuban-American community where she finds romance and danger"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRESummerill, Erin
Summary: Seventeen year-old Britta Flannery is the outcast daughter of a bounty hunter who must use her powers to track her father's killer in a world of warring kingdoms and dangerous magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUMManieri, Evie.
Summary: Two decades after being forced into slavery by seafaring Norlander invaders, a small faction of Shadari rebels hires the infamous mercenary Mongrel to assist their uprising, unaware that her ties to the region render her a volatile ally with an agenda of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANSuri, Tasha
Summary: "Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a dark journey to save their empire. Imprisoned by her tyrannical brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURJohnstone, William W.
Summary: Trail-hardened cattlemen and longtime buddies Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin learn their bosses are getting out of the beef business. The two plan to deliver the last two thousand cows to Abilene, collect their pay, and retire. There's just one problem: the company's lawyer is skipping town with all the workers' cash. They'll just have to steal it back. Casey and Eli plan to hold up the lawyer on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western JohnstoneCraddock, Curtis
Summary: "In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries cling to a fading glory, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs is about to be married to a man she has barely heard of, the second son of a dying king in an empire collapsing into civil war. Born without the sorcery that is her birthright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRALewis, Stephen
Summary: In the summer of 1895, Woodruff Parmelee, the son of a well to do farmer on Old Mission Peninsula, was tried for the murder of Julia Curtis, his pregnant girlfriend. On the day the verdict was announced a large and menacing crowd gathered in and around the courthouse demanding that justice be done. Parmelee’s defense rested on his alibi. He claimed that he was clearing brush for a new road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2005
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LewisCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI FIC LEWMafi, Tahereh
Summary: "To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFPearson, Ridley
Summary: "In the near future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney's imagination, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park. Five unique families are among the residents--and some of the parents were once known as the Kingdom Keepers. Their identities are carefully guarded in order to raise their children without special treatment, most of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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Summary: "In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI--which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging--Finn Whitman, an Orlando...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2009