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In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer;...
42) Poop fountain!
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Qwikpick papers volume 1
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English
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Three friends spend Christmas day breaking into the town of Crickenburg's antiquated sewage treatment plant in order to witness with their own eyes the soon-to-be-replaced "poop fountain."
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Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 1
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English
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Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about...
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Did you hear that? Listen for cars, people, dogs, and more in this book about the sounds you can hear all around the city! Transition young readers from board books to picture books with tear resistant pages. Big, bold text and an engaging question-and-answer format provide a fun and interactive story time experience. About the Turn Without Tearing Series:?The Turn Without Tearing collection from Flowerpot Press encourages readers to mimic the sounds...
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"A stunning debut novel that delves fearlessly into the taboo subject of modern-day medical experimentation on African Americans"--
When Lena Johnson's beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical...
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Library of America volume 125
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
48) Bone: Rose
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Series
Bone (Jeff Smith) volume Prequel
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Princess Rose must defeat a terrifying dragon that attacks the small towns of the Northern Valley, and is possessed by the evil Lord of Locusts.
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English
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Staff Reads - Juneteenth Weekend Edition! 2023
Queer Coffee House @ the (Virtual) Library - November
Staff Reads - Juneteenth Weekend Edition! 2023
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town -- with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity as he...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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English
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"The installment in Mary Daheim's beloved and long-running small-town murder mystery series featuring newspaper editor-publisher Emma Lord. An unsettling visit from Ren Rawlings, a strange young woman in search of the mother who abandoned her, sparks Emma's curiosity--especially when the woman suddenly collapses and lands in the hospital. Matters become even more baffling when Emma's husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, finds a corpse and Ren claims that...
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Three-time Grammy winner and superstar Tim McGraw releases his 17th album, which takes its name from his new hit single. McGraw has sold more than 89 million records worldwide, has dominated the charts with 46 #1 singles, and is the most-played country artist since his debut in 1992.
52) Refuge
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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After Amy's parents leave, she ends up raising her two, slightly younger, but overly needy siblings. Amy has to balance her personal life with her responsibilities. But when Sam, a young handsome stranger rolls into town, he becomes entrenched in the family while he and Amy, against all odds, begin to create a life they never thought possible.
53) Sinister graves
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Cash Blackbear novels volume 3
The Cash Blackbear Mysteries volume Book 3
The Cash Blackbear mysteries volume 3
The Cash Blackbear Mysteries volume Book 3
The Cash Blackbear mysteries volume 3
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English
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"A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymnal written in English and Ojibwe. Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old Ojibwe woman, sometimes helps Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, on his investigations. Now she knows her search for justice for this anonymous victim...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
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English
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Cassie Nightingale has settled into Middleton and is busy making a home of Grey House. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Jake Russell, and his kids are happy to have Cassie in the neighborhood, but she has yet to gain the trust of some people in town. Before long, a stranger rolls into town with papers entitling him to legal ownership of Grey House. Before she knows it, Cassie is left without a home and is convinced Middleton isn't where she belongs.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Expecting to cover zoning meetings and school plays, Paul Tomm signs on as a cub reporter with a small-town paper near his Connecticut alma mater. When Jaan Puhapaev, a professor doing his research on the ancient art of alchemy, dies under suspicious circumstances, Paul is called back to the campus to write an obituary. But Puhapaev had no family or friends, and the only person who seems to have known anything about him is the beautiful next-door...
56) Burn Country
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As a former “fixer” for journalists in Afghanistan, Osman (Dominic Rains, "Best Actor" at the Tribeca Film Festival) finds asylum in a small California town. Promised a job as a crime reporter for the local paper, and a home with his best friend’s mother, the town sheriff (Melissa Leo), Osman is ready to settle in. But, when the job falls through, Osman finds himself restless and looking for action.. His attempts to get to know the area lead...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Book Description: In their collaborative early writings, the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and Byron, whose feuds, alliances, and love affairs weave an intricate web of social and political intrigue in imaginary colonial lands in Africa...
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Zebra Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"The stories in this collection ... give nuances to the theme of touch, with all its complex emotional and physical connotations. ... The theme has been interpreted in diverse, often surprising and inventive ways. Whether fictional or autobiographical, the contributions focus not only on emotional and bodily contact, but also on such concepts as 'staying in touch' and 'easy touch'. With the exception of two pieces, the stories in Touch were written...
60) Paper princess
Author
Series
The royals (Erin Watt) volume 1
Publisher
[Diversion Books]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ella Harper spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet. After Ella's mother dies, Callum Royal plucks Ella out of poverty and tosses her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her.
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