Conaghan, Brian
Summary: "All seventeen-year-old Dylan Mint wants is to keep his Tourette's in check and live as a normal teen, but during a routine hospital visit he overhears that he is going to die, and in an attempt to claim the life he has always wanted he makes a list of "Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It" and sets out to have some fun."--From Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CONSummary: This new, 1950s-set adaptation of the classic novel 'The Darling Buds of May' captures the warmth, optimism, and escapism of the Larkin family for a modern generation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LARLessing, Doris
Summary: A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: The story of the joys and trials of the March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy that they encountered through their youth and young womanhood in and around their New England Home and how they attempted to support the family while their Father is away at war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCGraham, Winston
Summary: The eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer" of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2008
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASummary: Based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield, this follows the fortunes of Paul Craddock, a former soldier who purchases a run-down Devon estate. Set between the Boer War and the outbreak of World War I, the miniseries depicts the end of an era, as England moves into the modern age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HORVine, Barbara
Summary: Faith Severn investigates the mystery of a family murder that her family tries it's best to forget.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VINHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: 1n a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1963
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: Comatose after a suicide attempt, Alice Raikes slides between levels of consciousness as her family gathers at her hospital bedside, where buried tensions emerge, and the more they talk, the more they conceal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC O'FAAhmed, Tufayel
Summary: It's time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you're getting married (and gay) than on your family WhatsApp group? Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once believed in:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHMWinslow, Don
Summary: "Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more "legit" life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINWinslow, Don
Summary: Providence, RI, 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional 'muscle' for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He yearns for something more and dreams of starting over fresh, someplace far away. But when a modern-day Helen of Troy triggers a war between rival mob factions, Danny is embroiled in a conflict...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: "Abbas has never told anyone about his past--before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: The story opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Archer 2016Ausubel, Ramona
Summary: "From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings. Labor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar--married with three children--are happily preparing for a family birthday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSGregory, Philippa
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gregory 2020Morgan, Louisa
Summary: "A Secret History of Witches follows five generations of women -- all of whom happen to be witches -- from nineteenth-century Brittany to London during World War II. Brittany, 1821. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her. Even so, they fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORHicks, Deron R.
Summary: "No matter how dangerous his adventures have been, Art has always been able to count on his best friend, Camille. Now that Camille is meeting her estranged father, Art wants to be there for her--which means going to London. But Camille's history professor father, renowned for expertise in British legend, is missing. When they visit his apartment, Art and Camille find a long-missing object that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AlcAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Look out for Little Women-soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Streep! Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of Jo March and her former students concludes with this beautiful keepsake edition of Jo's Boys, the final novel in the Little Women Collection! Ten years after Jo opened a school for boys, the little men have grown up and left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCColfer, Eoin.
Summary: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019