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Halls, Stacey

Summary: Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAL

Winterson, Jeanette

Summary: Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hollinghurst, Alan.

Summary: 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens. An innocent in matters of politics and money, he becomes caught up in the Feddins' world: its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obssession with beauty--a prize as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOL

Cameron, Stella

Summary: When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder. A new year arrives and winter holds Britain's Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it's the construction of a new housing development that's causing the residents of Folly-on-Weir most concern. As she passes the site late one afternoon, pub...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Shoemaker, Sarah

Summary: "<Strong>"Reader, she married me."</strong> For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHO

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHU

Beaton, M. C.

Summary: Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beaton 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BEA

Johnson, Kij

Summary: "In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. There are adventures, kidnappings, lost letters, and family secrets-lavishly illustrated throughout by award-winning artist Kathleen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Colfer, Eoin.

Summary: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC COL

Beaton, M. C.

Summary: "Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again in Down the Hatch. Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BEA

Summary: At the height of the frontier era, a locomotive races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote Army Post. But one by one, the passengers are being murdered. Their only hope is John Deakin, a mysterious prisoner-in-transit who must fight for his life -- and the lives of everyone on the train -- as he uncovers a deadly secret that explodes in a torrent of shocking...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BRE

Beaton, M. C.

Summary: Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Beaton 2014

McDermid, Val

Summary: "In the northern England, psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are on the hunt for a serial killer who picks up women at weddings without a date, only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCD

Maupin, Armistead

Summary: "The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MAU
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Aziz, Susannah

Summary: Every Friday Musa's family takes turns picking out a Jummah treat which they use to try all different foods, but when it is Musa's turn he sticks to his favorite halal hot dogs to share.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AZI

Conaghan, Brian

Summary: "All seventeen-year-old Dylan Mint wants is to keep his Tourette's in check and live as a normal teen, but during a routine hospital visit he overhears that he is going to die, and in an attempt to claim the life he has always wanted he makes a list of "Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It" and sets out to have some fun."--From Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Beaton, M. C.

Summary: Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEA

Barker, Susan

Summary: Dark themes of colonial misconduct, racial prejudice, and doomed love resonate throughout this novel, yet it is infused with characteristic humor and warmth. It opens in Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection when a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl. The book then moves to 1969 where Frances, Christopher's Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Swan 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Cameron, Stella

Summary: "Although he has always kept his past carefully hidden, as the ever-reliable manager of her well-stocked pub, The Black Dog, Hugh Rhys has Alex Duggins' total trust. However the unexpected arrival of two women from his past raises the fury of the usually even-tempered Hugh, threatens his carefully-crafted reputation and sends shockwaves through the village. When a battered body is discovered in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Nazer, Mende.

Summary: The author provides an account of her experiences after being kidnapped from her Nuba village in 1993 by Arab raiders when she was twelve years old and sold into slavery, and discusses how she was able to gain her freedom seven years later while living and working for her master's sister in London.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 NAZ

Rendell, Ruth

Summary: Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rendell 2010

Shreve, Anita.

Summary: In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHR

Melchior-Durand, Stéphane

Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation, the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Beaton, M. C.

Summary: "An irresistible new adventure for the bossy, vain, and endearing Agatha Raisin, from New York Times bestselling M.C. Beaton, "the reigning queen of the cozies" (Booklist). The picturesque Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to warm the winter months after the holidays by roasting a pig in the town square. Agatha, always one for a good roasting, has arrived with her former protege;e...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

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