Summary: Set in a British register office, where people come to record life's big events: births, marriages, and deaths. Senior Registrar Kate Dickenson juggles a hectic personal life with grumpy teenagers and longtime partner Rob, while dealing with the emotional toll the job has on her. After a big promotion, jealous colleague Judy threatens to reveal an indiscretion Kate had with her handsome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOVSweren-Becker, Daniel
Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy . . . and an entertaining national obsession in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SWEHerbert, A. L.
Summary: Halia Watkins, the owner of a well-loved soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland, investigates after a smooth-talking, shady entrepreneur turns up murdered in her kitchen, right next to her cast iron frying pan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSmith, Jill Eileen
Summary: "Esther is poised to save her people from annihilation. Relying on a fragile trust in a silent God, can she pit her wisdom against a vicious enemy and win?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMILeth, Kate
Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETLippman, Laura
Summary: Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected-- and first female-- state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LIPHerbert, Brian
Summary: "Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim meets with Baron Harkonnen; Duncan Idaho is sent on another hunt and becomes a hunter; Leto Atreides meets Prince Rhombur and begins exploring Ix
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AND/HERHerbert, Brian
Summary: Duncan Idaho follows a beacon to escape the hunt; Baron Harkonnen and the Reverend Mother make an agreement; Padot Kynes helps some Fremen and visits one of their sietches; Leto explores Ix and overhears a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AND/HERHerbert, Brian
Summary: Leto Atreides brings news of the revolt brewing on Ix, but the city’s leaders make a decision that may threaten everyone, while Crown Prince Shaddam plots to overtake it. Meanwhile, Pardot Kynes begins spreading his edenic vision to terraform the desert planet of Dune into an oasis even as the native Fremen raise suspicions about his motives...and if he can truly accomplish his goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AND/HERWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEASummary: After the fall of the Galactic Empire, a lone gunfighter makes his way through the lawless galaxy's outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter. When he refuses to deliver a specific bounty, he makes himself a target for some of the most powerful forces in the fallen Empire and unwittingly becomes entangled in the remnants of the rebellion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: As Gert navigates a fairy-tale netherworld with a capital "H," Fairyland's baddies brood and brew to revitalize a rotten ruler. Can Fairyland hope to survive the coming storm when the only people trying to save it are the mastermind tag team of Larry and Duncan Dragon? Are the fates of Gertrude and the land she loves to hate more intertwined than anyone expected?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSturm, James
Summary: A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams's beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home."Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us." Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press 2023
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Summary: New York, 1858: Mary, a young widow with three children, agrees to marry her brother-in-law Frederick Law Olmsted, who is acting on his late brother's deathbed plea to "not let Mary suffer." But she craves more than a marriage of convenience and sets out to win her husband's love. Beginning with Central Park in New York City, Mary joins Fred on his quest to create a 'beating green heart' in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2021
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Summary: After Dorothy's house is carried off by a tornado, she finds herself in the strange and magical Land of Oz. With the help of her new friends the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, she must persuade the Wizard of Oz to help her get back to Kansas. L. Frank Baum's timeless fantasy is beautifully recreated in this enchanting graphic novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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Summary: "Gert's still stuck in Fairyland and trying to get the fluff back home, but her quest hits a bit of a roadblock when she winds up being crowned Queen! Join Gert as she rules the world she hates, meets a new friend named Duncan Dragon, gets her face smashed in by a beautiful princess, and makes a choice that may very well lead to the last days of Fairyland"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOURubin, Adam
Summary: When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RubCogan, Priscilla
Summary: Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the third novel in The Winona Trilogy, continues to explore the deep divide between the modern psychological view of life and the traditional Lakota (Sioux) spiritual perspective, following the same characters: Dr. Meggie O'Connor, the psychologist and Hawk, the Lakota medicine teacher. In Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the two lovers marry but soon find their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2000
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Florence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
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Summary: Gert finally realizes that being such a murderous maniac might be the reason she's not been able to find her way out of the candy-coated world of Fairyland that has been her nightmare for over forty years. She sets off on a new quest to redeem herself and tries to earn her way back home with good deeds and kindness and love an whatever other mushy, touchy-feely things she can manage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOUBurch, Ciera
Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BURCampbell, Nicola I
Summary: Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, [2005] 2005