Alfieri, Annamaria
Summary: It s 1911, and young Vera McIntosh is in love and out of place. Pale and Scottish, a missionary s daughter, she no longer fits in with the Kikuyu with whom she grew up. But she is too African, too native to be welcomed by Kenya s ex-pat community. It s only in Justin Tolliver s arms that Vera feels truly at home. Tolliver, too, is neither fish nor fowl. True, he s the son of an English earl,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFAlfieri, Annamaria
Summary: "It's 1913, and Justin Tolliver is no longer a member of the colonial police in British East Africa. Instead, he has opted for life as an African farmer and a newly minted family-man. But once again, Vera and Justin are brought face to face with terrible injustice."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2018
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Summary: The British don't belong in Africa. Their skins are too pale, their clothing too heavy and elaborate, their morality all wrong. And yet here they are in 1912 in the British Protectorate of East Africa, tangled in an uneasy peace with the Sultan of Zanzibar. Much of the tangle in this new mystery in Alfieri's East Africa series concerns the slave trade. The British have outlawed it, but, well,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFNonamus, Andy
Summary: An elementary student, who wishes to remain anonymous, recounts the good and the bad of their first day of school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NONBosch, Pseudonymous
Summary: "Eight-year-old aspiring magician Oliver and his rabbit sidekick Benny must solve a mysterious robbery to save their act"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOSSummary: Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and a rising star in her party with her eye on the White House, then she became Vice President. VEEP follows the whirlwind day-to day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the President's interests, even as she tries to improve her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEEBeck, Sam
Summary: "Fife's plans to become an expert swordsmith are interrupted when he meets Neitya, an extraordinary girl unlike any he's ever met before ... primarily because of her horns and amnesia. Worryingly, she seems akin to the monstrous Vel who roam the countryside. but when Fife is attacked by the Vel, Neitya saves him by using a skill thought to be forever lost to everyone: Magic. Fife and Neitya...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wonderbound 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VERSchaffhausen, Joanna
Summary: "Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up. The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SCHSchroeder, Karl
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHHodkin, Michelle.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HODPierce, Tamora.
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PIEBaugh, Carolyn.
Summary: "Quicksand: The beginning of an engrossing new suspense series featuring Philadelphia policewoman Nora Khalil by Carolyn Baugh, acclaimed author of The View From Garden City. Officer Nora Khalil is used to navigating different terrains. As part of a jointtask force set up by the Philadelphia Police Department, the FBI, and the local sheriff's offices, she works to keep Philly's mean streets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUBrown, Roseanne A.
Summary: After her home is attacked by shapeshifting vampires, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng is sent to live with her aunt and cousin in Maryland, but the aspiring vampire hunter discovers that middle school is harder than it appears on television, especially whenshe has to avoid detention and turn her classmates into warriors before they become vampire food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROKibuishi, Amy Kim
Summary: Enter the rich and fantastical world of Rema in the first installment of this middle-grade graphic novel series with sweeping adventure and light romance! Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. She is unexpectedly led to Rema, a distant world of magic and beauty that is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A fast-paced, sexy drama that follows the elite Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of Sin City's largest resorts and casinos. Includes 23 episodes of TV's hit drama uncut and uncensored.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASFearing, Mark
Summary: "In five spooky stories, an intrepid young resident invites readers to look a little closer at this scenic rural town's secrets, mysteries, and unexplained disappearances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FEAPalmer, Ada
Summary: "The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech ... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: When twelve-year old Ivy attends West Archer Academy, she is determined to graduate in two years and eventually follow her hero Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, but after her roommate introduces her to a group of students who are hundreds of years old, she is forced to reexamine her priorities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCAButcher, Jim.
Summary: In the land of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal--young Tavi struggles to cope with his lack of magical talent, until his homeland erupts into conflct between rebels and loyalists and Tavi discovers that he holds the key to his realm's survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUT CA 1Merbeth, K. S.
Summary: "Scorpia Kaiser has always stood in Corvus's shadow until the day her older brother abandons their family to participate in a profitless war. However, becoming the heir to her mother's smuggling operation is not an easy transition for the always rebellious, usually reckless, and occasionally drunk pilot of the Fortuna, an aging cargo ship and the only home Scorpia has ever known. But when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Angoe, Yasmin
Summary: "Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGConnally, Celeste
Summary: "London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONWalker, Landry Q. (Landry Quinn)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Elara from the planet "Nowhere" begins school at the Academy of Terraforming Arts, where she befriends Clare, a mute intergalactic sponge, and learns how to farm in space without blowing up planets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017