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Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC CLELloyd-Jones, Sally
Summary: When disaster strikes, Mr. Pockles, a reclusive little dog with a big hat collection, comes to the aid of renowned panda, Lady Satsuma, and begins collecting friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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Summary: In this reminder to celebrate everyday joys in life along with the grand achievements, sweet, silly and creative Zuni marks the moments that have made an impact on her and puts them in her family's memory jar to be shared at the end of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAESummary: An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLMiller, Pat Zietlow
Summary: With all the endless, creative fun a child can have with a rock, the best thing one can do with one is to share it with a friend. Includes facts about rocks and rock collecting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILMass, Wendy
Summary: Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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Summary: Rocket the dog is excited about the 100th day of school and enlists the help of his friends to collect one hundred special things to bring to class, from heart-shaped stones found with Mr. Barker to feathers Owl provides, but will he find enough items in time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN HILReynolds, Peter H. (Peter Hamilton)
Summary: Jerome enjoys collecting and using words that he hears, reads, or sees, and then decides to share his collection with others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2018
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Summary: At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEDRay, Eleanor
Summary: A collector of objects, Amy Ashton, who believes it is easier to love things than people, finds her solitary existence interrupted when a new family moves in next door with two young boys--one of whom has a collection of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAYHughes, Mary Ellen
Summary: Callie Reed makes a long overdue visit to her aunt Melodie in quaint Keepsake Cove, home to a bevy of unique collectible shops on Maryland's Eastern Shore. When Callie discovers her aunt's body on the floor of her music box shop, she can't accept Melodie's death being called accidental. And why was she there in the middle of the night? Signs seem to come from her late aunt through a favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: A series debut introduces London Metropolitan Police Force detective William Warwick, who on his first investigation reflects on his complicated childhood while uncovering the schemes of a ruthless art collector.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCSanders, Lawrence
Summary: When a priceless ancient Greek coin is lost while being transported to the auction house, Mary Lou Dunk, the supervisor of the transfer comes under suspicion. An insurance sleuth and a cop, both rivals for her heart, aid in clearing her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANAlexander, Tasha
Summary: "In the latest installment of Tasha Alexander's New York Times bestselling series, Lady Emily must solve a string of high stakes "accidents" while trapped in a lavish villa in the Bavarian Alps. In the winter of 1906, Lady Emily and husband Colin are invited to the opulent home of Baroness Ursula von Duchtel in the Bavarian alps. Outside is a mountainous winter wonderland with a view of Mad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTBuckley, Jonathan
Summary: "A novel of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interviews with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide. What might be a gloomy subject is instead alluring, lit from within by a lively deep knowledge of human nature: Buckley's eye for motivations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BuckleyJames, Henry
Summary: "This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners."The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMWait, Lea.
Summary: Visiting an old college friend at her new home on coastal Maine, antique print dealer Maggie Summer finds her friends in an unusual state of fear and anxiety and begins investigating strange disturbances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAIArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Archer 2019Baker, Deb
Summary: While attending her first major doll show, Gretchen Birch, a doll restoration artist, is forced to investigate the murder of a sleazy reporter when the killer begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKRyder, Brandi Lynn.
Summary: Years after staging her kidnapping and death to run away with the heir to a renowned art collection, Karen finds her carefully constructed world falling apart when their daughter discovers the truth and brings about Karen's reunion with her sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYDWest, Jacqueline
Summary: Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WESGoodwin, Jason
Summary: In 1840, after hearing rumors that a long-lost Bellini painting has resurfaced in Venice, Sultan Abdulmecid tasks Yashim, his most trusted detective, with discovering the masterpiece's whereabouts. Once in Italy, Yashim collaborates with Palewski, his friend in the Polish consulate, to infiltrate the Venice underworld and locate the missing painting. Now, Yashim must solve the Bellini mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009