Wan, Michelle
Summary: Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who's tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they're sent to shake rent out of. One night Keno and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANFowler, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Summary: A woman is found drowned in her basement--with nary a drop of water to explain the crime. Senior-citizen detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006
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Summary: Twelve books carefully organized in presentation of short vowels and single consonants. Introduces the alphabet (except Q) with very basic three-letter words and short vowels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MASPhillips, Stephanie
Summary: "Jessica Harrow is dead...but her journey has only just begun. Discover the world of the afterlife, where Jessica has been recruited as a Reaper, tasked with ferrying countless souls to their final destination. But unlike the rest of the Reapers, Jess has no memory of what killed her and put her into this position. In order to unravel the mystery of her own demise, she'll have to solve an even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GRIAustin, Blair
Summary: "In a city far in the future, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. A line of mosquitos in uniforms and reglia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world - the conflict that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSThomas, M. J.
Summary: "Peter, Mary, and Hank journey to the pyramid-studded desert of ancient Egypt. When the trio become friends with Pharaoh's daughter, they witness first-hand as Moses petitions Pharaoh for the Israelites' freedom. Plagues wreak havoc as the group races to decode the scroll, gets chased by a panther, and battles Pharaoh's cunning advisor, the Great Magician"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/ideals 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KERAlbee, Jay
Summary: Nonbinary fourth-grader Riley learns how hard it is to take care of a dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024
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Summary: Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MBASummary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASEvans, Nicholas
Summary: Documentary filmmaker Tommy is divorced and estranged from his son. But when his son is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tommy must confront his son and a tragic memory from his own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVAMcBride, Eimear
Summary: "By the award-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Strange Hotel is a book about grief, travel, and female loneliness narrated by an unnamed middle-aged woman from a series of hotel rooms around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBGenhart, Michael
Summary: Follows the reaction of a neighborhood of birds, from a congress of crows to a gaggle of geese, when a flamboyance of flamingos moves in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENReef, Cora
Summary: Simon gets carried away storytelling and immediately regrets announcing his plan to climb Mount Aquarius, but his friends are so excited for him that he does not have to heart to tell them the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REEResnick, Jacqueline
Summary: "Splat gets to meet Seymour's brother, Brice, in this fun-filled I Can Read book from New York Times best-selling author-artist Rob Scotton. Splat the Cat: Twice the Mice is a Level One I Can Read audiobook, which means it's perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tim is a man who is still haunted by traumatic memories of his past, many linked to the death of his father. Desperate to resolve his nightmarish issues, Tim returns to his old hometown so he can pay a visit to the house where he grew up. But while Tim wants to convince himself the ghostly memories he carries are just a figment of his imagination, circumstances lead him to believe that there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOOMcCorkle, Jill
Summary: "Lil and Frank married young, having bonded over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCSavage, Stephen
Summary: "When the city is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one superhero can save the day. But who is this mysterious hero, and why does he disappear once his job is done?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: JE SAVCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAVCascardi, Andrea E.
Summary: "When Peg and Cat encounter hungry pirates by the seashore, they've got to think fast. Pirates get cranky when they're hungry, and when pirates are cranky, they sing -- really badly! To spare their ears, Peg and Cat must make sure each pirate gets his fair share of fruit -- the same amount for everyone. And when a sneaky monkey steals a few peaches, Peg and Cat have to divide the fruit up all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2017
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Summary: Who is Darth Vader? How did the once great Jedi become a fearsome villain? Who are the allies and foes Darth Vader has faced? In this biography -- complete with black-and-white illustrations, timelines, and character profiles -- young readers will delight in learning the complete history of the Sith Lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017