Springstubb, Tricia
Summary: Khalil lives in the upstairs apartment with his family, which is big and busy and noisy. Downstairs lives Mr. Hagerty, who is quiet. Khalil and Mr. Hagerty don't appear to have a lot in common, but hot summer days have a way of bringing people together. As Khalil looks for buried treasure in the yard, Mr. Hagerty tends to his garden. Both help each other navigate language -- whether it be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPRColandro, Lucille.
Summary: "You won't believe why this old lady swallowed a clover, a daisy, a butterfly, a bird, a pot, some gold, and a fiddle"-- Cover verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books/Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COL BASKETNelson, Colleen
Summary: "A plucky West Highland Terrier named Harvey is determined to protect his yard from an intruding animal. Meanwhile, Harvey's owner Maggie struggles to fit in at school, his friend Austin works to prevent his grandfather from losing his job at a retirement home, and new retirement home resident Josephine Fradette clings to her fierce individuality in the face of conformity. Finally, all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NELShriver, Lionel
Summary: Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRTursten, Helene
Summary: "Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M TURRendell, Ruth
Summary: "Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rendell 2014Hyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: "Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: "Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDMcNicoll, Sylvia
Summary: "Hallie, dying to know whether her crush likes her, runs across a mall parking lot with her cell phone blocking her vision as 82-year-old Susan is backing out. The freak accident appears to cost both of them their lives. It's all Susan's fault, right? What business does she have still being behind the wheel at her age? The two find themselves transported to a strange fairground, and argue back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2018
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Summary: "Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim - the Thursday Murder Club - are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor - an old pal of Elizabeth's (or perhaps more than just a pal?) - arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M OSMRoth, Philip.
Summary: "Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTKing, Stephen
Summary: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINBrown, Carrie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROPrice, Reynolds
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIKing, Stephen
Summary: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KingCotterill, Colin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press Inc. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTBrewer, Sonny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRECotterill, Colin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: "Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HYDEvison, Jonathan
Summary: "Geno is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his nursing assistant, Angel, who he sees as being different from him in every way possible, and unable to understand him in any way. Perhaps no one really can, since Geno has been telling everyone who will listen that he's not just Geno-in fact, he's lived many past lives, dating back 1000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEDeveraux, Jude
Summary: In the early days of the pandemic, Etta is stranded in Kansas City and takes refuge with an old man in need of a caretaker. She finds his library and begins having vivid dreams of the city in the 1870s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEVCotterill, Colin.
Summary: Coroner Siri Paiboun must identify a corpse found near the mansion of the new Laotian president, an investigation which includes communication with the dead, sacrificial rituals, a marriage proposal, and strange disco music that only the doctor can hear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTCotterill, Colin.
Summary: Supervising an excavation for the remains of a U.S. fighter pilot who crashed in a northern Laos jungle a decade earlier, national coroner Dr. Siri becomes suspicious when a series of fatal accidents culminates in his team getting trapped in a cabin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTTyler, Anne.
Summary: "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015