Palmer, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALStevens, Taylor.
Summary: Dealing information to wealthy clients throughout the world, Vanessa Munroe hopes to leave her unconventional past behind her until a mission to find the missing daughter of a Texas oil billionaire forces her to return to the central Africa region of her youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2011
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Summary: Vanessa Munroe deals in information - expensive information - for corporations, heads of state, and anyone else who can pay. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Vanessa became the protâegâe of an infamous gunrunner at fourteen, and earned the respect of dangerous men. After a decade of building a new life in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. Pulled into the mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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Summary: A disgraceed former State Department star starts over at a Congo m ining facility that's being oppressed by corrupt interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBellow, Saul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pengiun Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELHarris, Lisa
Summary: Deep in the heart of Africa, two American lives are about to change forever. Natalie Sinclair and Dr. Chad Talcott want to make a difference in underdeveloped African villages ... but they didn't count on risking their lives in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2009
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Summary: A white American woman discovers an illegitimate half-sister who is half-black and who was abandoned in Africa by their mother. She brings her to the United States, but the woman is alienated by the soft living and returns to her village. By the author of Lady Moses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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Summary: Haunted by a life of violence and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done, dangerous and often not-quite-legal things. Born to missionary parents in lawless Africa, taken under the tutelage of gunrunners, and tortured by one of the jungle's most brutal men, Munroe was forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEHellenga, Robert
Summary: A middle-aged anthropology professor contemplating his future becomes romantically involved with a woman released from jail after shooting her husband, the pastor of a snake-handling church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELBerenson, Alex.
Summary: When four friends, working at a giant refugee camp in Kenya for Somalis, are hijacked by bandits, John Wells, brought in to find them, goes undercover in a country that isn't his usual playing field where he discovers that the truth behind the kidnappings is far more complex than he imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: When four Americans are kidnapped, John Wells heads to East Africa to track the Somali bandits responsible--and to keep the U.S. out of an unnecessary war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERLiggett, Cathy.
Summary: "One trip binds their hearts forever to the women of Africa"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIGZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: When her first mission brings her to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, Okoye, discovering the truth about a manipulative real-estate mogul, is torn between fulfilling her duty to Wakanda or listening to her own heart and standing up for the people of Brownsville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTTison, Ari
Summary: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TISNuurali, Siman
Summary: "Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEAZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUTMiedoso, Andres
Summary: After Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEAgostini, Alliah L.
Summary: Shane, a boy with big dancing dreams, learns the meaning of courage and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they've got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. When a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ILOGoade, Michaela
Summary: Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a gorgeous celebration of the land she knows well and the powerful wisdom of elders. On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries. Salmonberry, Cloudberry, Blueberry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023