Swanson, Matthew
Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWADewdney, Anna
Summary: Look out, world--Llama Llama is a TV star! The beloved character, made famous by Anna Dewdney's best-selling picture books, is now the star of his own Netflix original series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE LLAO'Donoghue, Caroline
Summary: Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Things are looking up - until she discovers a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC O'DOParish, Herman.
Summary: A whimsical tale about friendship and luck finds the literal-minded young Amelia Bedelia and her friends testing superstitions related to such symbols as black cats, four-leaf clovers, and broken mirrors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple ParishGreenwald, Lisa
Summary: When the long-ago fortune tellers they created in third grade start popping up in the most unexpected places during the summer before seventh grade, three former best friends -- Millie, Nora and Bea -- see this as a sign to finally reconnect and reunite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREBellairs, John
Summary: The second book in the famous Lewis Barnavelt series. Settled into his new life, Lewis seems content living with his magical Uncle Jonathan and neighbour Mrs Zimmermann. He even has a new best friend, Rose Rita, who loves to play sport, build Roman ship models and play with magic - all the things Lewis loves to do too! After discovering Grandpa Barnavelt's 1859 lucky coin, Lewis is certain that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piccadilly Press 2019
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Summary: Norma devises a plan with friends Belly and Little B to sneak through the Mr. Fortune cookie factory to get their own fortunes squirreled away inside of the treats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2023
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Summary: When Rebecca helps her injured neighbor, Mr. Rossi, by caring for his pigeons, she discovers a strange black pigeon with an eerie message warning Mr. Rossi of danger, and consults a fortune teller to learn if she is in danger, as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRECollier, Nicole D.
Summary: Always turning to her Wheel of Fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies, for answers and a dose of luck, 12-year-old Maya must find the courage to write her own fortune to answer her deep-down questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLDunnett, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNKenyon, Sherrilyn
Summary: In the universe where the League is law, most live in fear. We fight back. Welcome to a world where corrupt assassination politics dominate everyone. It's kill or be killed. Caillen's destiny was to become the next generation of Dagan smugglers. Until fate intervenes. Suddenly, his life is not his own and his loyalties are split in a way he could have never imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKing, Stephen
Summary: "Two Talented Bastids" explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In "Rattlesnakes," a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance--with major strings attached....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "Fortune is a dazzling, endlessly surprising historical novel that opens the day Napoleon leads his victorious Grande Armée into Berlin after having conquered Prussia in battle. As crowds throng the streets to witness the emperor in his glory, a handful of lives that briefly touch are sprung from their orbits and set on courses that will take them across Europe and around the world--their fates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARLeong, Julie
Summary: "A fortune teller finds an unexpected family on her journeys in this heartwarming and charming fantasy debut. Tao, an immigrant fortune teller, lives in a wagon and roams the dusty outskirts of the kingdom of Eshtera. Fleeing a troubled past, she travels between villages telling only small fortunes: whether it will hail next Thursday; what boy will kiss which barmaid; when the cow will calve....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEOKing, Stephen
Summary: From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER. "You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of lifeboth metaphorical and literal. King has, for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Cork O'Connor, the retired sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota, is in a race against time to save the people he loves from ruthless mercenaries in this riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KRUKrueger, William Kent
Summary: Cork O'Connor finds himself in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from a group of bloodthirsty mercenary hunters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRUSmith, Jennifer E.
Summary: Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. On his eighteenth birthday she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. As a kid, Alice's parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after that, leaving them to grapple with his gambling debts....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SMIKenyon, Sherrilyn
Summary: "The war is on...Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella: an organization that has declared war on the League. They rule the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrify it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one. He will do whatever it takes to survive and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENO'Neill, Joseph
Summary: "Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark, a millennial technical writer who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter, grew up a world apart from his much younger half-brother Geoff. Raised in the UK by the mother who deserted Mark when she divorced his dad and married a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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O'Donoghue, Caroline
Summary: Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Things are looking up - until she discovers a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC O'DOKing, Stephen
Summary: These 12 stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as King's novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilartion of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,' and in You Like It Darker, listeners will feel that exhilaration too, again and again. Two Talented Bastids explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KINDunnett, Dorothy
Summary: In 1547 Scotland is clinging to independence after a humiliating English invasion. Paradoxically, the country's freedom may depend on a man who stands accused of treason. He is Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegoat nobleman of crooked felicities and murderous talents, with a scholar's erudition and a wicked tongue. Clawing his way back into a country that has outlawed him, and to a family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNHiggins, Jack
Summary: A small-time smuggler comes to the aid of a nun who is running for her life and hunting for a lost treasure in the hopes of salvaging his own battered soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, 1996, c1972. 1996