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Chance Romans, nouvelles, etc Destin et fatalisme Romans, nouvelles, etc Fate and fatalism Fiction Fortune Fiction Friendship Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction Mortalité Romans, nouvelles, etc Successions et héritages Romans, nouvelles, etc Veufs Romans, nouvelles, etc Widowers FictionParish, 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 PARCopies Available at Interlochen
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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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 BARKing, 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: 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 SMIO'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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'NE1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
King, 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 KINHarms, Kelly.
Summary: Winning a million-dollar dream home in a television sweepstakes, Janey leaves her aunt's house and embarks on a trip to her new hometown only to meet a fellow prize contender, a down-on-her-luck neighbor who shares her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harms 2013Browne, S. G. (Scott G.)
Summary: "A radically funny, irreverent, satirical novel about a loan shark who is able to steal people's luck--perfect for fans of bestselling authors Christopher Moore and Chuck Palahniuk. Nick Monday is a private detective with a penchant for coffeehouse baristas and the ability to steal other people's luck. Politicians and celebrities. Lottery winners and game show contestants. Accident survivors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSparks, Nicholas.
Summary: U.S. Marine Logan Thibault believes he's found a lucky charm buried in the sands of Iraq: a photograph of a smiling woman. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPAMeyer, Marissa
Summary: Jude is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw comics, host D&D night with his friends, work at his parents vinyl record store, and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck. Suddenly, everything Jude has ever wanted is within reach. His art is being published. He helps his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024