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Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Homelessness Fiction Homelessness Juvenile fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Poverty Poverty Fiction Poverty Juvenile fiction Real property Fiction Right of property Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Art and the warGoldembaum, Sally
Summary: "Birdie, Nell, Cass, and Izzy are prepping their coziest handiwork for a holiday gathering in Sea Harbor, Massachusetts. But as murder makes waves in their tightly knit coastal village, can the Seaside Knitters prevent a deadly trend from catching on? While the Seaside Knitters get ready to showcase their new Danish-inspired event, locals can't stop talking about Tess Bean--a bright-eyed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOLMorris, Michael
Summary: A riveting portrait of turn-of-the-century Florida. An unforgettable drama of love and loyalty, betrayal and redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORHendrix, Grady
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a hilarious and terrifying new novel that explores the way your past-and your family-can haunt you like nothing else.... Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENMcCarthy, Tom
Summary: "From the author of Remainder and Satin Island (which was short-listed for the Booker Prize), a high-tech odyssey through CGI studios, wind tunnels, and drone research centers, where the limits of healing, entertaining, revelation, and destruction are continually being transformed. A kaleidoscopic exploration of motion and how the forces that compel and impel us continues to defy capture and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCClark, Mindy Starns.
Summary: A property dispute sends Matthew Zook on a mission to find the previous owner in order to solve the boundary issue. But the previous owner was a suspect in the murder of his own wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLAWarner, Kaki.
Summary: Hoping to escape his past, Ethan Hardesty left a career as an architect and went to work for the railroad. Only two things impede his desire to transform Heartbreak Creek into a thriving town once again-- a vandal bent on stopping the railroad, and the beautiful but hardheaded woman who won't sign over the final right-of-way through the canyon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARWill
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 WILLi, Grace D.
Summary: "Ocean's Eleven" meets "The Farewell" in this lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIAlexander, Kianna
Summary: "Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of life pull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEGoldenbaum, Sally.
Summary: The Seaside Knitters for Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, band together to prove the innocence of one of their own, after Cass Halloran is accused of murdering a local fisherman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLMayle, Peter.
Summary: "The beloved author at his effervescent best: his master sleuth, Sam Levitt, eating, drinking, and romancing his way through the South of France-even as he investigates a case of deadly intrigue among the Riviera's jet set. Billionaire Francis Reboul istaking in the view at his coastal estate, awaiting the arrival of vacationing friends Sam Levitt and Elena Morales, when he spies a massive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYMayle, Peter.
Summary: Unable to resist an exciting job offer in Marseille, Sam and Elena find their happy return to the region's coastal sunshine and delectable cuisine challenged by an increasingly violent competition for waterfront property.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYShriver, Lionel
Summary: "Ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word ... These pieces illustrate how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves, and how tussles over ownership articulate the power dynamics of our relationships"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: "In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles of fine gold watches; mountains of fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and Shabbat candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALTerrell, Heather.
Summary: Mara Coyne represents an auction house to prove the Crystalis, a 16th century masterpiece, wasn't stolen by the Nazis. She discovers that documents from the auction house have been forged and goes to London to discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TERWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALFarnsworth, Christopher
Summary: "John Smith possesses a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other people's thoughts. He hears the songs stuck in their heads, knows their most private traumas and fears, and relives the painful memories they can't let go of. The CIA honed his skills until he was one of their most powerful operatives, but John fled the Agency and now works as a private consultant, trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARBoulley, Angeline
Summary: Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep. Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, Team Misfit Toys, and even her twin sister Pauline. Together they ace obstacle courses, plan vigils for missing women in the community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A rare Chinese vase is stolen from a pottery shop. Nancy and the owner of the shop feel that locating "the leaning chimney" will provide the clue to the vase and other stolen articles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEEMozley, Fiona
Summary: "Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London that truly never sleeps. Tourists dawdling, chancers skulking, addicts shuffling, sex workers strutting, punters prowling, businessmen striding, the homeless and the lost. Down Wardour Street, ducking onto Dean Street, sweeping into L'Escargot, darting down quiet back alleyways, skirting dumpsters and drunks, emerging on to raucous main...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZMorelli, Laura
Summary: Summer, 1943. Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans works as a typist at the Yale Art Gallery. When both women are called to Italy, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the world's greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOREdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSDesmond, Matthew
Summary: "[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 DESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 DESEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013