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Summary: "A picture book biography of Senator Elizabeth Warren"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WARThompson, Laurie Ann
Summary: Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YEBThompson, Laurie Ann.
Summary: Empower yourself in today’s highly connected, socially conscious world as you learn how to wield your passions, digital tools, and the principles of social entrepreneurship to affect real change in your schools, communities, and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 361.2 THOMankell, Henning
Summary: Collects five mystery stories that detail Kurt Wallander's journey from a twenty-one-year-old rookie police officer to a first-rate detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANMankell, Henning
Summary: In January 2014 Hening Mankell was informed that he had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. He writes about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANKELL, HENNING MANMankell, Henning
Summary: Swedish inspector Kurt Wallender investigates the murder of a woman whose body was stuffed in a well. The case has international ramifications, involving a plot against Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANNesser, Håkan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESEdwardson, Åke
Summary: Enjoying a satisfying family life and career as Sweden's youngest chief inspector, Erik Winter faces a daunting case involving a double murder and a suspect with possible links to the gothic world and the local police force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWMankell, Henning
Summary: "A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANNesser, Håkan
Summary: The untimely murder of a lottery-winning retiree, whose case was initially closed by the quiet confession of his wife, baffles Detective Münster when a neighbor goes missing and contradictory evidence emerges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESPaquette, Ammi-Joan
Summary: "Assorted unbelievable stories about people, places and events--most of which are true, some of which are not"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: When archaeologist Louse Cantor returns to Sweden from a dig in Greece, her world collapses with the discovery of her only child dead in his bed. Henrik turns out to have led multiple lives and held many secrets--including his HIV-positive status--that she knew nothing about, and part of her shock over his death stems from the realization that he concealed so much from her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MANMankell, Henning
Summary: Hudiksvall, January 2006, police find eighteen people massacred in a small village. They think it's the work of a mad man but Birgitta and August believe they were killed by the same person who killed their mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANNesser, Håkan
Summary: Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESLarsson, Asa
Summary: It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Oak 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARLarsson, Åsa
Summary: When a bear hunt culminates in the discovery of a brutally murdered woman in a northern Swedish village, Rebecka Martinsson delves into the victim's tragic family history, only to be blocked from the case by an arrogant prosecutor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARMankell, Henning
Summary: When a life raft carrying the bodies of two Eastern European criminals washes up on the Swedish coastline, Inspector Kurt Wallender travels to Riga, Latvia, where he struggles against corruption and deceit and risks his own life to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANMankell, Henning
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MANMankell, Henning
Summary: "Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old former surgeon who retired in disgrace years ago. He has retreated to a Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude. Until he wakes up one autumn evening to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANNesser, Hakan
Summary: Investigating a dubious religious sect in the aftermath of a young girl's brutal murder, Inspector Van Veeteren is frustrated by the group's secretive refusal to defend itself, a case that is complicated by increasingly perplexing tips by an anonymous woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESNesser, Håkan
Summary: When a killer linked to a hit-and-run and a possible second murder proves increasingly unstable, a personally affected Van Veeteren comes out of retirement to face the greatest trial of his career. In the middle of a damp, dark night a young man is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriend's house. The driver, drunk, leaves the body by the side of the road, and tries to put the murder out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESPaquette, Ammi-Joan
Summary: Did you know that there is a fungus that can control the mind of an ant and make it do its bidding? Would you believe there is such a thing as a corpse flower -- a ten-foot-tall plant with a blossom that smells like a zombie? How about a species of octopus that doesn't live in water but rather lurks in trees in the Pacific Northwest? Every story in this book is strange and astounding. But not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508 PAQCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508 PAQSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005