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Curtis, Grace

Summary: "Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the Milky Way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury--and an absolute magnet for intrigue. Intrigues such as: Why are there love poems in the lobby inbox?...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF CUR

Tokarczuk, Olga

Summary: A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOK

Gutman, Dan

Summary: "After noticing that A.J. and his friends' geography knowledge could use some work, Mr. Cooper invites to class just the person to help. Globetrotter Mrs. Barr speaks seven languages and has visited nearly two hundred countries! But why does she carry a suitcase everywhere she goes? And why does she open a window whenever she walks into a room? Perhaps Mrs. Barr has something to hide"--Provided...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUT

Swift, Jonathan

Summary: The unusual voyages of Englishman Lemuel Gulliver carry him to such strange locales as Lilliput, where the inhabitants are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a nation ruled by horses.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWI

Holt, Anne

Summary: Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOL

Doig, Ivan.

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DOI

Doig, Ivan

Summary: Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Radish, Kris.

Summary: Katherine Givens befriends the four other women who, through the unexpected circumstance of their recently deceased friend Annie Freeman's last will and testament, are about to share a life-affirming road trip.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAD

Gunn, Robin Jones

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GUN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUN

Swift, Jonathan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SWI

McMurtry, Larry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult- Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McMurtry

McMurtry, Larry.

Summary: McMurtry with his miraculously sure touch at creating recognizable women characters, and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure-with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004

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Ward, Amanda Eyre

Summary: Caroline Winters' family broke apart after the disappearance of her five-year old sister, but now, fifteen years later, she has seen someone who looks like her sister and she sets out on a journey to find her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Gunn, Robin Jones

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GUN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUN

Gunn, Robin Jones

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUN

Henry, Sue

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS Henry

Swift, Jonathan

Summary: Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself in Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose six-inch height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1988

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 823 SWI

Harrison, Jim

Summary: Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers, and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them, at first. With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Henry, Sue

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

Cho, Elaine U.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHO

Downes, Anna

Summary: "Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia's remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads, and no DNA evidence, the case has gone cold. But Katy refuses to give up. Using Phoebe's social media accounts as a map, Katy starts to retrace her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

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McLarty, Ron.

Summary: Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCL

Daheim, Mary.

Summary: On a cross-country train trip to Boston, Judith McMonigle Flynn is disgusted by the antics of daredevil and fellow passenger Wee Willie Weevil, whose untimely death following the train's collision with a truck identifies the work of a murderer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAH

Hart, Carolyn G.

Summary: When Annie Darling, the popular proprietess of the Death on Demand bookstore, throws a cruise-party with guests dressing up as their favorite fictional sleuths, it's a success until one of the revelers falls overboard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HAR

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