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Author
Series
Beasts of prey volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"There’s no such thing as magic in the broken city of Lkossa, especially for sixteen-year-old Koffi, who holds a power within her that could only be described as magic—a power that if discovered could cost her life. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, Koffi knows the fearsome creatures in her care, and paying off her family's debts to secure their eventual freedom can be her only focus. But the night those she loves are gravely threatened by...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After many years of happy marriage, Emma Knightley and her husband are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances-not all of whom are well known to the Knightleys but are certainly beloved by every Jane Austen fan: Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Marianne and Colonel Brandon, Anne and Captain Wentworth, and Fanny and Edmund Bertram. Very much not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted...
3) Daybreak
Author
Series
Days of redemption volume 1
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
248, 14 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Viola Keim starts working at a Mennonite retirement home and soon finds herself torn between her attraction to Ed, missionary son of a resident, and her Amish values that require her to remain near home to care for her needy family members. Can she leave them behind to begin a new life abroad with Ed?
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
223 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1954, Bernie Gunther is arrested smuggling a woman out of Cuba and is soon being being questioned in the United States and Germany about war crimes. As the interrogations continue, Bernie, a former German homicide detective and private investigator who served unwillingly in the SS during World War II, reveals the story of his life while cracking jokes and playing his enemies off against each other, even with his life at risk.
6) All in
Author
Series
Bridgeport Social Club volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meredith Hunt is content with her solo life. But when she's mugged and the handsome Ace Vance comes to her rescue, she doesn't know how to accept his help, or how to stop staring into his chocolate-brown eyes. Thrown together by a careless criminal, Meredith and Ace can't deny their attraction. But can they open their hearts, and their lives, to make room for love?
Meredith Hunt owns and runs a successful Pilates studio, volunteers at the high school...
Author
Series
Bridgeport Social Club volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to cancer when the town's coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, with a three-year-old daughter to care for and a broken heart to mend, he moved across the country to find a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Now he tends bar by night and tries to navigate life as a single dad by day. Luckily, his neighbor is happy to babysit while he works late nights. She's great with little Kate, beautiful, kind and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
" 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!'
Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 10
Language
English
Description
In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft. More than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep with the son of one caught between. Bob is the last of the famous shepherd line of Gray Dogs of Kenmuir. His alcoholic master, Adam M'Adam, doesn't believe the dog is as good as his forebears, until Bob gives his life to save the flock from a ravenous wolf of the Scottish highlands.
11) The human kaboom
Author
Series
Tales from the multiverse volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here are six thrilling stories -- ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to adventure -- set in six different worlds, featuring artwork from six different illustrators."--
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Unquestionably American, pop music has a profound debt to blues. This episode explores the tumultuous history of blues from its New Orleans origins to its current state.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.
15) Taken
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...
16) Rough weather
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic thriller. As the son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession, the young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls in love with a woman, but can he suppress his urge to kill her?
18) The stray
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A struggling family allows their oldest son to adopt a stray dog even though it may cause more hardship, but Pluto the wonder dog more than proves his worth during a shocking turn of events.
19) Gather
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends,...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jessica Strawser's A Million Reasons Why is "a fascinating foray into the questions we are most afraid to ask" (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author)--the story of two women who discover a bond between them that will change both their lives forever. When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it's an answered prayer--that is, for one half-sister. For the other, it will dismantle everything she knows to be true. But as they...
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