Pennington, Lewis
Summary: When Mase Winslow, the heir to a Civil War-era plantation is forced to almost kill his best friend, a slave named Spoon, he unconsciously brings about the demise of his beloved home. As guilt and remorse overtake him, he seeks atonement through death on the battlefield. With the help of an ordinary-looking stone given to him by Spoon’s mother, he is transported through time. When he realizes he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Lining Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENSummary: Set 5: With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYBeall, Will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAPennington, Jessica
Summary: Sidney and Asher should have clicked. Two star swimmers forced to spend their summers on a lake together sounds like the perfect match. But, it's the same every year -- in between cookouts and boat rides and family-imposed bonfires, Sidney and Asher spend the dog days of summer finding the ultimate ways to prank each other. And now, after their senior year, they're determined to make it the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PENHill, Will
Summary: After watching his father's brutal murder, sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter joins Department 19, a secret government agency, where he learns of the existence of vampires and the history that ties him to the team destined to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILHill, Will
Summary: The brave men and women of Department 19 have fought Dracula at every turn, but now Zero Hour has passed and the ancient vampire is at full strength. Inside Department 19, the Operators are exhausted and fractured. Jamie, Larissa, Matt and Kate are each struggling with their own demons. When the friends need each other most, they are further apart than ever. Outside the Department, the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILBilal, Parker.
Summary: "The ancient city of Cairo is a feverish tangle of the old and the new, of the superrich and the desperately poor, with inequality and corruption everywhere. It's a place where grudges and long-buried secrets can fester, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye. Makana, a former Sudanese police inspector forced to flee to Cairo, is now struggling to make ends meet as a private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILPill, Maggie.
Summary: When Retta’s “gentleman friend” is accused of murder, the Sleuth Sisters take on the case. Winston Darrow is a charmer, but his secrets create trouble that spills onto Retta, Barb, Faye, and even police chief Rory Neuencamp. Someone is out to get Win, someone he claims is the real killer. While Retta admits Win is less trustworthy than her daffy Newfoundland dog, she insists he’s not a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILBilal, Parker
Summary: When a surveillance job leads private investigator Makana to the murder of a teenage girl, he and a woman named Zahra search for justice in a country where the authorities can be willing to turn a blind eye to apparent honor killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILBoll, Heinrich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLBilal, Parker
Summary: Hired to investigate the disappearance of a university student who may have become involved in political activities, Makana is drawn by a gruesome murder into an ethnic rivalry and gang war among young men from South Sudan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILHill, Will
Summary: Before, she lived inside the fence. She was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything-- and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences. Then came the fire. Now Moonbeam is in the hospital, sharing her stories of sexual, physical and mental abuse. There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILHill, Will
Summary: Rehabilitating Frankenstein while training a new squad to help recover from an attack by evil vampire Valeri Rusmanov, operator Jamie Carpenter races to recapture escaped prisoners who have been transformed into vampires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILHill, Will
Summary: "Now that Jamie's an official member of Department 19--a classified government agency of vampire hunters--he and his squad of elite operators are discovering that work is a non-stop emergency. And that's before the red alert: Dracula's remains have been stolen from the hiding place where they've been in lockdown for more than a century. The clock has been set. Jamie and the Department must stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILHill, Will
Summary: When Jamie Carpenter's mother is kidnapped by strange creatures, he finds himself dragged into Department 19, the government's most secret agency. Fortunately for Jamie, Department 19 can provide the tools he needs to find his mother, and to kill the vampires who want him dead. But unfortunately for everyone, something much older is stirring, something even Department 19 can't stand up against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILPill, Maggie
Summary: In this second story of the series, our heroes are presented with two crime threads, one hot and one cold. The cold case is half a century old, which is okay, since many residents remember those days like they were yesterday. In 1967, on a warm night in Nashville, Tennessee, someone committed two brutal murders. It’s reported that person now lives in the park, hiding under a new identity. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILBilal, Parker
Summary: In Cairo, private investigator Makana is called into the office of his new client, a powerful art dealer known as Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a famous painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn't want to be found. The world of art is a far cry from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILRill, Eric.
Summary: A riveting new novel and book club pick from Eric Rill, is about a race against time. The ticking time bomb is Saul Reimer's sanity. His Alzheimer's is going to be the catalyst that will either bring his family together or tear it apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RILBilal, Parker
Summary: When the Coptic community of Cairo is implicated in a series of child murders in the summer of 2001, Sudanese private investigator Makana fears an increase in religious tensions and identifies links to a woman with a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILBull, Bartle.
Summary: Story of pioneers coming to the African bush after World War I passing through The White Rhino Hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BULWill
Summary: Two dogs each claim a bone they have found and ask passersby for help in deciding ownership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILConnington, J. J.
Summary: "Bacteria inimical to plant growth spread around the world, causing a blight, Jack Flint is invited to become director of operations at Nordernholt's survivalist colony in England's Clyde Valley"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONSummary: The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHASummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021