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Viets, Elaine

Summary: Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women, fires her entourage and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. She collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, but she ignores the advice of her doctors and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIE

Slaughter, Karin

Summary: When the charred body of a woman is found, and Detective Lena Adams is charged with homicide, Grant County's medical examiner/pediatrician Sara Linton joins forces with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, to uncover the truth about a case that is poisoning a small town with hatred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS SLA

Klein, Carol Swartout.

Summary: "Painting for peace in Ferguson is the story of a community coming together, hundreds of artists and volunteers, black and white, young and old, to bring hope and healing to their community using the simplest of all tools- a paintbrush. Written in child-friendly verse, the actual artwork painted on hundreds of boarded up windows in Ferguson, South Grand and surrounding areas illustrates the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Treehouse Publishing Group, an imprint of Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC 2015

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Viets, Elaine

Summary: "Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself deep in the Missouri woods on a perfect spring day. But there is nothing idyllic about her grim walk - a body has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Detective Jace Budewitz wants Angela on the scene.Terri Gibbons, the popular Forest High track star who went missing eight months ago, has been found strangled. Could a message...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIE

Johnston, Joan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOH

Summary: Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband, Russ' conviction. When his conviction was overturned, the crime set off a chain of events that exposed a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV THI

Raney, Deborah

Summary: "At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to care for her dying mother with her sisters, Joanna and Britt. Now Mom is gone and their father stuns them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phylicia feels stuck--until her father's protégé, Quinn Mitchell, presents the sisters with an intriguing business...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gilead Publishing, LLC 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RAN

Wilson, Nathan D.

Summary: Now a Netflix series! Join imaginative ninjas Wes and Georgie as they chase down Wes's stolen lost tooth in this Level One I Can Read book with text by N. D. Wilson and charming art by Forrest Dickison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN WIL

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: JE WIL

Summary: Based on the true story of Kansas City contractor Bruce Murakami. On November 16, 1998, Bruce's wife Cindy and daughter Chelsea are killed in a street accident by drag-racing teenager Justin Suarez. Despite the admonitions of Bruce's surviving sons Brody and Josh, and those of family friend Melissa, the bitter, vengeance-driven Murakami hires attorney Erin Teller to see to it that Suarez is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRO

Whaley, John Corey.

Summary: After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014

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

Hamilton, Laurell K.

Summary: When vampire hunter Anita Blake confronts The Harlequin, terrifying, powerful creatures feared even by the centuries-old vampires, rivals Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, the alpha werewolf, must become allies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2007

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Viva, Frank

Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIV

Seal, Caitlin

Summary: Daughter of a sea merchant captain, seventeen-year-old Naya Garth is on a trading mission in Ceramor when she is murdered, and resurrected by a necromancer as one of the "undead," bound to her former body by mysterious magic runes, an abomination in her homeland of Talmir--she has been effectively recruited as a spy for Talmir, and soon finds herself embroiled in politics, kidnapping, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Higginson, Sheila Sweeny

Summary: When Donny feeds his stuffed dinosaur, Bronty, a salami sandwich, Bronty comes down with a case of bad breath, and Doc McStuffins must teach Bronty the proper way to take care of his teeth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2019

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Twain, Mark

Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TWA

Membrino, Anna

Summary: While Big Shark loses another tooth, Little Shark is dolefully waiting to lose his first.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MEM

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR Orange Membrino

Wyman, Christina

Summary: Max Plink's life is complicated. Her parents aren't getting along. The school bullies are relentless, and her own sister is the cruelest of them. Worst of all, her mouth is a mess. With a mismatched puzzle of a jaw, Max has a Class II malocclusion, otherwise known as a severe overbite. She already has braces, which means she lives on Advil and soft foods after each orthodontist appointment. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

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

Summary: This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Huckleberry 2005

Twain, Mark

Summary: Set in a 19th-century town along the Mississippi River, Mark Twain's classic and much-loved novel presents a young and mischievous boy, Tom Sawyer, and his numerous antics. Through adventures and a cast of colorful characters, Tom learns much about becoming a young man even while clinging to his boyhood.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Henson, Mike

Summary: All the Silly Stuff in my Teeth is a fantastical, dream-like story about teeth brushing, that takes readers on a journey into the narrator's imagination and encourages good personal hygiene and following a daily routine.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEN

Carpenter, Emily

Summary: "Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove's death, Eve has maintained Dove's charitable foundation--and her lies. But just as a documentaryteam wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove's darkest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDS

Berg, Elizabeth

Summary: Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION BER

Riordan, Rick.

Summary: After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RIO

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