Summary: Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLOLee, Gee-eun
Summary: When he gets hit in the head by a delicious red fruit, Baby Bear searches for more of this elusive treat until he finds the biggest red fruit of all, in this delightful story about first discoveries and always landing in a safe place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Thomas, Lex.
Summary: "In this final installment of the Quarantine trilogy, David and Will are alive, but on the outside of McKinley High, while Lucy is the last of the trinity left inside to deal with Hilary, who will exact revenge before taking over McKinley High"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOLeer, Korrie
Summary: To escape the nonstop, loud crying of her new baby brother Cassie climbs into an empty box to drive, sail, and soar until she finally finds quiet--and loneliness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEEModesitt, L.E.
Summary: Rhenn prepares for his liaison duties only to encounter hostility from his new commander and a threat from a vengeful High Holder, a situation for which he becomes a lone defender against gang lords, naval marines, and terrorist priests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODVee, Julia
Summary: "Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VEEKaaberbol, Lene.
Summary: Red Cross nurse Nina Borg is drawn into Copenhagen's brutal underworld when she becomes the unwitting caretaker of a three-year-old boy who may be a victim of child trafficking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAAKaaberbøl, Lene.
Summary: "On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAAFranklin, Tee
Summary: "When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kaaberbol, Lene.
Summary: Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help--even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2011
View online at OverDrive
Kaaberbol, Lene.
Summary: Protecting the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has escaped police custody in the aftermath of a brutal murder, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg struggles with a belief in the woman's innocence as she learns more about her violent past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAAThomas, Lex.
Summary: When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EgmontUSA 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOLeet, Rhonda
Summary: Franny's father is not afraid of bucking gender norms in order to ensure that his daughter grows up smart, strong, and full of self confidence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: POW! 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEEDeighton, Len
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEIGrossman, Lev.
Summary: "Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can't hide from his past, and it's not long before it comes looking for him. Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCroucher, Lex
Summary: It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CROGrossman, Lev
Summary: Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Thomas, Lex.
Summary: The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOWallace, Lew
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family Pub. 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALDeighton, Len
Summary: The third novel in Deighton's "Hook, Line and Sinker" trilogy. Spanning a ten year period (1977-87), Deighton solves the mystery of Fiona's defection - was she a Soviet spy or wasn't she? He also retells some of the events from the "Game, Set and Match", trilogy from Fiona's point of view.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEIDeighton, Len
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEIKaaberbol, Lene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAAKaaberbol, Lene.
Summary: "Centered around Madeline Karno, an ambitious young woman eager to shatter the confines of 1890s France, this novel is a gripping mystery that takes the reader on a captivating journey to find the cause behind a series of suspicious deaths" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAASummary: Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022