Samuels, Barbara.
Summary: A boy who loves trucks is disappointed when he receives a cat named Lola instead of a toy fire truck, but Lola proves to be a "trucker" after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMSisler, Celeste
Summary: While preparing for Suzette's birthday party, Johnny-Ray and his friends find that Timmy fell into a hole and needs help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green SislerLittler, Jamie
Summary: "In a snow-covered land where monsters rule the icy tundra, only song weavers hold the power to control these vicious giants. But for centuries song weavers have been the subject of suspicion--how can those who hold so much power be trusted? Ever since his parents were lost on a pathfinding expedition, Ash has spent his life as an outcast. As a budding song weaver, his village marked him as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LITBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIParker, Samuel
Summary: "A couple finds themselves stranded in the Mojave Desert with dwindling hope of survival--until a mysterious man shows up. Will he help them or does he have more sinister plans?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARNarh, Samuel
Summary: There is beauty in determination and ingenuity. These attributes are evident in Melia, whose friendship and connection with Ginger transcends time. A Kite for Melia delicately deals with the idea of loss and acceptance, using soft words woven with meaning that can be understood by everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chasing a Spider Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NARBjørk, Samuel
Summary: Winter 1999. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers 2018
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Summary: International bestseller Samuel Bjørk makes his US debut with a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer, and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime as I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive -- and shocking -- conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BJOBjørk, Samuel
Summary: "The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BJONarh, Samuel
Summary: As the seasons turn, Maisie rides her bull in and out of Dada's tall tales. Her Mama wears linen and plays the viola. Her Dada wears kente cloth and plays the marimba.They come from different places, but they hug her in the same way. And most of all, they love her just the same. A joyful celebration of a mixed-race family and the love that binds us all together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NARParker, Samuel
Summary: "A father reluctantly crosses the Mexican border to rescue his estranged son mixed up in the drug trade. It will take everything they have to make it back alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PARMuñoz, Manuel
Summary: ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUNOstler, Scott
Summary: Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan's most powerful yakuza clan. To survive, Rain strikes a desperate deal with his handler: take out a high-profile target in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISSigler, Scott.
Summary: As people across America are transformed into raving, paranoid, murderous monsters by a mysterious bioengineered parasite, Perry Dawsey confronts his own battle with the infection as he discovers that the parasites want something from him that goes beyond murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOSauer, Tammi.
Summary: "Everyone knows that minnows and sharks can't be friends! Can Nugget and Fang be different?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAUMailer, Norman
Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAIManuel, Jennifer
Summary: "The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeenyear-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Manuel 2021Eisler, Barry.
Summary: John Rain is back. And the assassin is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISSattler, Jennifer Gordon
Summary: "When a new neighbor moves in, Chick can hardly believe his eyes! Daisy is another pug, and she's BEAUTIFUL! Pug, however, doesn't seem to notice. But Daisy sure notices Pug, and she will do anything to win his affection"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SATSattler, Jennifer Gordon
Summary: A variation on the folk song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," featuring gifts that consist of birds, including beret-wearing French hens and "calling" birds using their cell phones. Includes the original words, as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SAT (BOARD)Sattler, Jennifer Gordon
Summary: Nine animals, including a bike-riding dog, a book-loving mouse, and a jig-dancing pig, introduce animal sounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019
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Summary: Young Sofi enters a New York City community garden and finds a half-painted mural. It's full of big, leafy plants in blue and yellow, and a vibrant emerald green color appears where the two colors meet. As Sofi runs her fingers over the image, she is suddenly transported to a beautiful place with plants just like the ones on the wall! Sofi finds herself in the Dominican Republic, where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ORTSauer, Gordy
Summary: "For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2021