Smiley, Jane.
Summary: On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SMIHyde, Catherine Ryan.
Summary: 1941. Steven Katz is the son of prosperous landowners. Although his parents don't approve, he's found true friends in Nick, Suki, and Ollie, sons of field workers. But Steven is in turmoil as he begins to acknowledge feelings for Nick amount to more than friendship. When the bombing of Pearl Harbor draws the US into World War II, bonds deepen and the fear of being different falls away. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDSteinbeck, Thomas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STERyan, Pam Muñoz.
Summary: A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYACussler, Clive.
Summary: In 1906 detective Isaac Bell goes after the Butcher Bandit who has committed a string of bank robberies and murders in the western states of America and becomes the hunted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCussler, Clive.
Summary: In 1906 detective Isaac Bell goes after the Butcher Bandit who has committed a string of bank robberies and murders in the western states of America and becomes the hunted.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSBeauman, Ned.
Summary: "In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking ofactors from one scene to another-a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAMason, Connie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: "Addie Sullivan leads a quiet life in a northern California lighthouse. She mourns the death of her father and endures her mother's bitterness, until the night a storm brings an injured stranger and a dark secret to her home. The man insists she is not who she thinks she is, but rather "Julia Eaton"--The child long lost and feared dead by her wealthy family. Seizing the chance to be reunited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2010
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Summary: Growing up as the lightkeeper's daughter on a remote island at the turn of the century, Addie Sullivan has lived a hardscrabble life. When a long-lost and wealthy relative finds her and enlists her to work as a governess at a lavish estate, she hopes to discover the truth of her heritage. But at Eaton Hall, nothing is as it seems. Not the idyllic family she hoped for, not the child she was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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Summary: A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYAJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKCoble, Colleen.
Summary: Addie Sullivan takes a job as a governess at a lavish yet mysterious estate in Mercy Falls, California, in an attempt to decode her heritage, but she finds danger--and possible the love of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Coble 2010Takei, George
Summary: "Star Trek actor, activist, and author George Takei shares his empowering and moving story about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TAKYe, Chun
Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUSherman, Casey
Summary: "Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024