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by
Melanie Benjamin
(2,950)
Summary: The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a long cold spell, warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to...
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BOOK
Call #: F BENJAMIN
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Michael F. Smith
(819)
Summary: Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was in the trenches and tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed, Nick delays his return...
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Call #: F SMITH
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lynsay Sands
Series:
Scottish Highlanders - #9
(983)
Summary: After escaping from the English soldiers who attacked her home and imprisoned her in a dungeon, Lady Elysande de Valance is grateful for the rugged Scots who are escorting her to safety in the...
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BOOK
Call #: PB SAN
Location: New Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marie Benedict
(5,790)
Summary: December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery...
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BOOK
Call #: F BENEDICT
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Laura Frantz
(429)
Summary: Virginia Colony's most eligible woman is busy matchmaking for a ship of brides, though she has no interest in finding her own mate. Will she reconsider when new revelations about the colony's most eligible landowner come to light?
BOOK
Call #: F FRANTZ
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tracie Peterson
Series:
Treasures Of Nome - #2
(132)
Summary: In 1891, when Madysen Powell's supposedly dead father shows up, her gift for forgiveness is tested and she's left searching for answers. Daniel Beaufort arrives in Nome, longing to start fresh after...
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BOOK
Call #: F PETERSON
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Conn Iggulden
Summary: In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon. Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F IGGULDEN
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Kristin Hannah
(39,092)
Summary: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and...
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BOOK
Call #: F HANNAH
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 6
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by
Sylvain Neuvel
(443)
Summary: Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making...
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BOOK
Call #: F NEUVEL
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kristin Hannah
(46,498)
Summary: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F HANNAH
Location: New Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Charles Todd
Series:
Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries - #23
(517)
Summary: A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no...
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BOOK
Call #: F TODD
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Charles Finch
Series:
Charles Lenox Chronicles - #14
(542)
Summary: London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can...
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BOOK
Call #: F FINCH
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Greg Bear
(71)
Summary: Reynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His rare days off lead him to strange encounters -- not just with...
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BOOK
Call #: F BEAR
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ilyasah Shabazz
(281)
Summary: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
BOOK
Call #: YA F SHABAZZ
Location: New YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Sadeqa Johnson
(3,525)
Summary: Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's...
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BOOK
Call #: F JOHNSON
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Sarah Penner
(1,325)
Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells...
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BOOK
Call #: F PENNER
Locations: New Adult Fiction, On Order
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Kate Quinn
(868)
Summary: Joining the elite Bletchley Park code-breaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
BOOK
Call #: F QUINN
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Lauren Fox
(2,257)
Summary: Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that...
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BOOK
Call #: F FOX
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Anne Blankman
(1,321)
Summary: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work -- Chernobyl -- has exploded. Before...
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Call #: YA F BLANKMAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert Jones Jr
(4,836)
Summary: Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and...
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BOOK
Call #: F JONES
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Beverly Jenkins
Series:
Women Who Dare - #2
(456)
Summary: Banished by her grandfather at the age of eighteen, Spring Lee has survived scandal to claim her own little slice of Paradise, Wyoming. She's proud of working her ranch alone and unwilling to share...
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BOOK
Call #: PB JEN
Location: New Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Alan Gratz
(2,648)
Summary: Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GRATZ
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Erin Entrada Kelly , illustrator
(2,376)
Summary: Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each...
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BOOK
Call #: J F KELLY
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Avi
(236)
Summary: Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jan Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered...
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Call #: J F AVI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Sigmund Brouwer
(31)
Summary: Part survival story, part animal-human friendship story and part redemption story, Clan follows the journey of Atlatl and the saber tooth cub he rescued from a dire wolf attack. When Atlatl brings...
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BOOK
Call #: J F BROUWER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
SJ King
(14)
Summary: Traveling back millions of years in the past, the Secret Explorers must rescue a precious dinosaur egg. In their quest, Tamiko and Cheng attempt to fend off angry Allosauruses, but what will they do when the egg starts to hatch?
BOOK
Call #: J F KING
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Linda Sue Park
(3,803)
Summary: When Hanna arrives in the town of LaForge, she sees possibilities. Her father could open a shop on the main street. She could even go to school, if there is a school, and even realize her dream of...
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BOOK
Call #: J F PARK
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Donna Jo Napoli
(23)
Summary: Caught in Japan and separated from their father when World War II begins, Italian sisters Simona, thirteen, and Carolina, ten, embark on a trying journey hoping to reach safety.
BOOK
Call #: J F NAPOLI
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Janet S. Fox
(60)
Summary: During World War II, a Czechoslovakian Jewish boy is sent to northern Scotland to live in a castle that houses gifted children who are learning to harness their magical powers to support the Allies' cause.
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Call #: J F FOX
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ibi Aanu Zoboi
(1,252)
Summary: In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
BOOK
Call #: J F ZOBOI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michael Zapata
(1,728)
Summary: The story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unite in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a...
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Call #: F ZAPATA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
W. N. Brown
Series:
Great Escapes - #3
(11)
Summary: Civil War, 1863. Virginia. Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton were captured by the Confederate Army and taken to Libby Prison, one of the most horrific prisons ever run --...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GREAT
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michael Burgan
Series:
Great Escapes - #1
(40)
Summary: In spring 1942, Royal Air Force pilot Bill Ash|s plane was shot down by Germans, who captured and eventually brought him to Stalag Luft III, a notorious camp for prisoners of war. The Germans boasted...
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Call #: J F GREAT
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
James Patterson
(1,730)
Summary: A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time.
BOOK
Call #: J F PATTERSON
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Colum McCann
(8,521)
Summary: "Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the...
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Call #: F MCCANN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paul Vidich
(220)
Summary: In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he "jumped or fell" from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. As his wife and children grieve,...
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Call #: F VIDICH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Greg Pak , creator
(40)
Summary: Hana and Kenichi finally return to the island seeking refuge with their new travel companions, but are denied entry by Elder Jin and the Islanders who fear the newly mutated byonin. Caught between...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL PAK
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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