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by
Margaret Rogerson
(111,691)
Summary: "All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery --...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F ROGERSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Miranda James
Series:
Cat In The Stacks Series - #8
(3,288)
Summary: "Lighthearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, for walking his cat, a rescued Maine Coon named Diesel. But he may soon be taken for a walk himself--in...
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BOOK
Call #: F JAMES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rachel Caine
Series:
Great Library Series - #3
(9,229)
Summary: "The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series....
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BOOK
Call #: YA F CAINE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Charles C. Lovett
(5,462)
Summary: "In an English cathedral city, passionate bibliophile Author Prescott works to uncover a long-lost secret about the cathedral's past, and its connection to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: F LOVETT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Polly Shulman
Series:
Grimm Legacy Series - #1
(16,607)
Summary: After high school student Elizabeth, working as a page, gains access to the Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
BOOK
Call #: YA F SHULMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Victoria Schwab
Series:
Archived Series
(32,839)
Summary: "When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Call #: YA F SCHWAB
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Donna Leon
Series:
Guido Brunetti Series
(7,931)
Summary: One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning,...
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BOOK
Call #: F LEON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Natalie D. Richards
(1,682)
Summary: Spencer volunteers at the library. Well, it's community service, but he likes his work. Mallory is sixteen and homeless. She spends a lot of time keeping her head down, trying to stay anonymous. When...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F RICHARDS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Eva Gates
Series:
Lighthouse Library Mysteries - #6
(2,184)
Summary: The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to repair the Lighthouse Library's...
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BOOK
Call #: F GATES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sue Halpern
(8,044)
Summary: For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. When fifteen-year-old, home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary she is...
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BOOK
Call #: F HALPERN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nora Page
Series:
Bookmobile Novels (Nora Page) - #1
(886)
Summary: "Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won't be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town's storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on...
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BOOK
Call #: F PAGE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rachel Caine
Series:
Great Library - #4
(6,730)
Summary: "To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F CAINE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mitsu Izumi , illustrator
Series:
Magus Of The Library
(2,599)
Summary: A story about a poor boy swept away by a kind library mage and the (literal) magic of reading. In a lushly-detailed fantasy world reminiscent of Arabian Nights, the Great Library is the center of...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL IZU
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mitsu Izumi , illustrator
Series:
Magus Of The Library
(1,458)
Summary: Theo has set out from his hometown on a journey to the great city of Aftzaak with three goals: to see the city he's longed for his whole life, to take the test to become a Kafna, and to return the...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL IZU
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mitsu Izumi , artist
Series:
Magus Of The Library
(1,132)
Summary: Theo has completed the first part of the grueling exam to become a kafna, but he's not in the clear yet -- there are two more trials he must face. Even if he makes it through the second test, an...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL IZU
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Eva Gates
Series:
Lighthouse Library Mysteries - #4
(2,893)
Summary: Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman...
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BOOK
Call #: F GATES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alechia Dow
(4,845)
Summary: Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world's population. Seventeen-year-old Janelle "Ellie" Baker survives...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F DOW
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Fiona Davis
(55,248)
Summary: It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life -- her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within...
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BOOK
Call #: F DAVIS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Matt Haig
(1,352,068)
Summary: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived, to see how things would be if you...
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BOOK
Call #: F HAIG
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 6
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by
Matt Haig
Summary: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived, to see how things would be if you...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: PLAYAWAY F HAIG
Location: Adult Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Fiona Davis
Summary: It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life -- her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F DAVIS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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![The lions of Fifth Avenue [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/236720@2x.jpg)
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by
Fiona Davis
Summary: It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life -- her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: PLAYAWAY F DAVIS
Location: Adult Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Fiona Davis
(54,560)
Summary: It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life -- her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F DAVIS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 4 of 18
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by
T. L. Huchu
Series:
Edinburgh Nights - #1
(12,925)
Summary: Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker -- and now speaks to Edinburgh's dead, carrying messages to those they left behind. A girl's gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough....
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BOOK
Call #: F HUCHU
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Juan Villoro
(6,368)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Juan's summer is off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito's house for the entire break! Who wants to...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F VILLORO
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sara Nisha Adams
Summary: Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching...
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Note: The Thursday Night book club will be discussing this book on 12/14/23. Please ask for a copy at the circulation desk.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F ADAMS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 17
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by
Sara Nisha Adams
Summary: Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F ADAMS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sara Nisha Adams
Summary: Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ADAMS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Sara Nisha Adams
(70,607)
Summary: Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching...
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BOOK
Call #: F ADAMS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Eva Gates
Series:
Lighthouse Library Mysteries - #1
(5,917)
Summary: For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family's social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the...
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BOOK
Call #: F GATES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Erin Morgenstern
(179,087)
Summary: Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F MORGENSTERN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brenda Novak
(727)
Summary: Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse lies the beautiful old library that...
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BOOK
Call #: F NOVAK
Locations: Adult Displays - Nonfiction Aisle, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Brenda Novak
Summary: Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse lies the beautiful old library that...
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BOOK
Call #: F NOVAK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jenn McKinlay
Series:
Library Lover's Series - #8
(3,676)
Summary: "Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library's annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover's dream--it's the library's...
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BOOK
Call #: PB MCK
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rachel Caine
(5,181)
Summary: The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain....
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BOOK
Call #: YA F CAINE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Donna Leon
Summary: One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning,...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: PLAYAWAY F LEON
Location: Adult Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Emily Beck Cogburn
(685)
Summary: "For Louisiana Richardson, desperate times call for crazy-like-a-fox measures. As the new librarian at Alligator Bayou Parish's struggling library, she's returning to her Southern roots and facing...
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BOOK
Call #: F COGBURN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rachel Caine
Series:
Great Library Series - #1
(27,719)
Summary: "Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F CAINE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rachel Caine
Series:
Great Library Series - #2
Summary: "In Ink and Bone, author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library--and rewrite...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F CAINE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mark Lawrence
Summary: The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust, where nightmares stalk...
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BOOK
Call #: F LAWRENCE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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