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Bailey, Tessa

Summary: To access her trust fund, Natalie Vos must get married, and with no prospects, proposes to a man she wants to kill and kiss in equal measure, failing vineyard owner August Cates, but their sham wedding turns into something more due to their unfortunate, unbearable, undeniable attraction.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAI

Moore, Heather B.

Summary: "Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOO

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRU

Poyer, David

Summary: "In his final tour of duty after a remarkable career at sea, Dan Lenson is appointed Superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He begins at a difficult time: Congress is cutting military budgets in the wake of the devastating world war with China, calls for radical reform are upending traditions, and Dan himself faces legal jeopardy for his actions during the war. And when a Category...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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Chesil

Summary: Inspired by a mysterious message, seventeen-year-old Ginny Park sets off to find herself as she reflects on her experiences of growing up Zainichi, an ethnic Korean born in Japan, and the incident that forced her to leave years prior.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHE

Moore, Heather B.

Summary: Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies. Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java'living with other Dutch families'had...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Cameron, Marc

Summary: "For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CAM

Cameron, Marc

Summary: "For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Deutermann, Peter T.

Summary: "Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEU

Kim, Graci

Contents: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas -- Why is orange chicken so delicious? -- Vegas wasn't built in a day -- Who doesn't like a garden wedding? -- Museums are so hot right now -- Blue eggs and ham(strings) -- Even Princess Jasmine needed her space -- Is a two-star hotel really just a motel? -- Meetings should always happen on ferris wheels -- Who knew there were so many M&M falvors! -- Ever...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIM

Azuma, Kiyohiko

Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009

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Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2023

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Armstrong, Addison

Summary: Two women. One secret. A truth worth fighting for. 1918. Timid and shy Emmaline Balakin lives more in books than her own life. That is, until an envelope crosses her desk at the Dead Letter Office bearing a name from her past, and Emmaline decides to finally embark on an adventure of her own--as a volunteer librarian on the frontlines in France. But when a romance blooms as she secretly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARM

Landau, A. J.

Summary: "In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is awakened by his boss with that news and sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things - one that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAN

Ackerman, Sara

Summary: "She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man she is drawn to but who clearly has secrets of his own. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACK

Wright Faladé, David

Summary: "By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild--a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WRI

Ganeshram, Ramin

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ganeshram 2018

Mehl, Nancy

Summary: "Former FBI behavioral analysts River Ryland and Tony St. Clair are asked to assist on a profile to catch the Snowman, a serial killer who has stayed hidden for over twenty years. As the killer's pattern emerges and danger mounts, River and Tony are in a race against the clock to catch a killer before he catches one of them"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MEH

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PRE

Asim, Jabari

Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASI

Andrews, Brian

Summary: Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel, his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Cohen calls for Charley Castillo to come out of retirement to direct a new Presidential Agent, one Captain...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AND

Amin, Anita Nahta

Summary: Reeya Rai and her friend Finlay discover a priceless ivory peacock in a cave near the Roman site her parents are studying, and Reeya must come up with a way to retrieve the nearly inaccessible artefact before the greedy Dr. Acker finds it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMI

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAM

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