Hämäläinen, Karo
Summary: Three cell phones ring in an opulent London suite. The calls go unanswered, because their recipients are dead. Earlier that night, four old friends and lovers meet for a reunion dinner. It's been ten years since the host, Robert, who made millions by way of unethical (but not illegal) interest rate manipulation, has seen Mikko, an investigative journalist feared by corrupt financiers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMHämäläinen, Karo
Summary: "Inspired by puzzle-mystery great Agatha Christie, prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hamalainen (The Buyout) presents us with a comedy of murderous intentions Three cell phones ring in an opulent London suite. The calls go unanswered, because their recipients are dead. Earlier that night, four old friends and lovers meet for a reunion dinner. It's been ten years since the host, Robert, who made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMNewson, Karl
Summary: When Bear wakes up early from his hibernation, he can't remember what he is! Is he a bird? Or a moose? Maybe a fox? Just when it seems like Bear won't be able to figure it out, he finds his cave and decides another nap might help. Will Bear be able to remember what he is when he wakes up again in the spring?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Despite the evidence Mouse insists that he is a tiger--or maybe a crocodile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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Summary: When Louie and Ralphie Ratso see their friends singing and dancing on the run-down band in the Big City Park, Louie gets one of his big ideas. They'll put on a concert to raise money to improve the park! Ralphie, Tiny, Velma, and Millicent are practicing songs from their favorite pop group, the Critter Kidz, wen Chad Badgerton says that singing and dancing in glittery things? And why do some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LARHorn, Dara
Summary: Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally, but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die. "What would it really mean to live forever? Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can`t die. Her recent troubles--widowhood, a failing business, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHorn, Dara
Summary: Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years-ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: In this graphic version of the classic story, Jak and her broken-down robot, Cow, make a deal with the scrap collector; if they will take the Space Elevator to the supposedly deserted Cloud Kingdom and procure some nano-beans, Cow will be fixed as good as new--but when they get there they find that the Kingdom is occupied by an immense alien monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Summary: "Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hiaasen 2020Copies Available at East Bay
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Summary: Ex-reporter Joe Winder had been working in the public relations department of a sleazy family entertainment park, The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills, when he chanced upon a news-breaking story inspired by the disappearance of two blue-tongued voles and the bizarre death of Orky, the killer whale.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIAHiaasen, Carl
Summary: "Snakes, grizzlies, a missing dad, a menacing drone... Carl Hiaasen delivers a wickledly funny, slightly subversive tale in his latest New York Times bestseller. Some facts about Billy Dickens: * He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to runover a snake. * Later, that motorcycle somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal. * Billy isn't the type to let things go. Some facts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION HIAHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pie (nee Cheryl Bunterman): a pop star since she was fourteen--and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann Delusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed"--meaning wasted--to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hiaasen 2010Gregory, Daryl
Summary: "A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind us. The Telemachus family is known for performing inexplicable feats on talk shows and late-night television....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMeister, Cari
Summary: Seb the draft horse is very upset because a friend from the neighboring farm has moved away, and Snowy and Princess decide that a seaside adventure will cheer him up because he has always wanted to swim in the sea, and anyway Princess wants to catch a fish (she is convinced that she is actually a cat)--but when Seb swims out too far and panics, it is up Princess to rescue him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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Summary: Princess is a show pony who is absolutely convinced that she is a cat and needs to hunt for her dinner, Blizzard (otherwise known as Snowy) is a Shetland pony who needs material for the book he is writing, and Sebastian is a draft horse who knows how to break out of the barn; so together the Tres Caballos Incognito set out for the clover fields looking for adventure--where Princess chases a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MEIMeister, Cari
Summary: It is Snowy the Shetland pony's birthday and Princess and Seb have planned a surprise trip to the movies to celebrate--but three horses in a movie theater are bound to result in one smelly situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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Summary: Seb, Princess, and Snowy are the three horses who call themselves the Tres Caballos Incognito, and they like to break out of the barn at night and go on adventures--and tonight's adventure is a trip to an amusement park where Seb the draft horse is looking forward to riding the roller coaster, and gathering more material for the book he is writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MEIDahl, Roald
Summary: Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction DahlMacDonald, Betty Bard.
Summary: Contains a collection of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories, describing how she lives in a upside-down house that is always filled with the smell of freshly baked cookies and her backyard of buried treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2003
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE MRSDahl, Roald.
Summary: Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a lifetime. Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await. Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could be all his ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Pop-Up Books, Call number: J FIC DAHDahl, Roald.
Summary: Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DAHCarle, Eric
Summary: "Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Carle 2015Carr, Jan (M. J.)
Summary: Buddy (who is reserved and thoughtful), Bea (who is boisterous and bossy) and the other second graders in Ms. Maple's class are trying to come up with a name for their class, but it is proving harder then they thought it would be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2023