Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Hewitt Pearce, a blacksmith living in his family's Vermont home, finds his quiet life disturbed by a troubled young woman and the knowledge that the woman he has always loved has recently been widowed.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful advertising executive Michelle Turner steels herself for a difficult encounter with her past when she returns to the small Montana town where she grew up to donate a kidney to her estranged father, and to make peace with Sam McPhee, her ranch-hand lover--now a prosperous rancher and doctor--who left town seventeen years earlier before learning that she was pregnant with his child.
Author
Publisher
Oakhill Publishing Limited
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
4) Plain truth
Author
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered....
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Getting dirty and being loud are what is expected of Jack Truck and Dump Truck Dan as they set out to do the jobs they were meant to do and have some fun along the way in Trucktown.
8) Frogs
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Nonfiction
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nic Bishop's photographs show all different kinds of frogs, big ones, very tiny ones, frogs with beautiful colors of skin, and one frog you can see inside of.
Author
Series
Publisher
August House LittleFolk
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this British variant of a traditional tale, a great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog rescues a rich man from bandits and demands that the man bring his beautiful daughter to li
Author
Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own worl
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 445 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive examination of North American history between Columbus's landing in 1492 and the founding of Jamestown in 1607; and describes the explorations by the Vikings, French, Moorish slaves, and Spanish conquistadors.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Sprig no longer gets along with her twelve-year-old sister, Dakota, but the two pull together during their father's extended business trip to Afghanistan, sharing concerns about his safety, an elderly neighbor's health, fights with their best friends, and boys.
Author
Series
Avalon series volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1984, 1982
Edition
1st Ballantine Books trade ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 876 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
A tragic tale of the rise and fall of Camelot seen through the eyes of Camelot's women: the devout Gwenhwyfar, Arthur's Queen; Vivane, High priestess of Avalon and the Lady of the Lake; above all, Morgaine, possessor of the sight, the wise, the wise-woman fated to bring ruin on them all.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a television adaptation of the class Jane Austen novel in which two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, and discover that after their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them, true love finally triumphs.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
260 p. : ill. ;c24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the surprising ways numbers influence people's lives, discussing how organizations are collecting massive amounts of data that is then used to evaluate, assist, and manipulate people in all areas of life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
18) Edge of evil
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful, high-profile TV journalist Alison Reynolds' career came to an abrupt stop when top executives decided they needed a "younger face." As if that wasn't enough, it seems her husband wants a "younger face" as well. With a dead career and a divorce pending, Ali feels she has no reason to stay in Los Angeles and heads back home to Sedona, Arizona when she hears of the mysterious death of a childhood friend. But now it appears that the dark and...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles Times" columnist Steve Lopez shares the story of his relationship with Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless violinist who captured his attention playing a two-stringed instrument on Skid Row, discussing his attempts to help Ayers--once a promising student at Juilliard--
In CLOVER Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other CLOVER Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request