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The house is on fire / by Beanland, Rachel,author.;
Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground, tearing apart a community.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.); Fires; Interpersonal relations; Theaters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The girl in the tower : a novel / by Arden, Katherine,author.;
"The magical adventure begun in The bear and the nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Good and evil; Young women; Magic; Villages; Spirits;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Jills : A Novel. by Parkman, Karen.;
In this debut novel from Karen Parkman, a Buffalo Bills cheerleader will stop at nothing to solve the disappearance of her best friend and teammate, navigating the dark underbelly of a hardscrabble city, the grime and glamour of professional cheerleading, and her own tangled family history. A RADD Pick. Book Club.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Psychological;
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The Paris apartment : a novel / by Foley, Lucy(Novelist),author.;
Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it's his future hanging in the balance.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Apartment houses; Brothers; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Melonhead and the big stink / by Kelly, Katy.; Johnson, Gillian.;
During the summer between fourth and fifth grade, Adam "Melonhead" Melon, who lives in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Capitol Hill, tries to stay out of trouble to earn a trip to New York City to see the giant "stink flower.""RL: 4.5, 8-12"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Conduct of life; Summer; Behavior; Humorous stories.;
© 2011, c2010., Yearling,
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Penitence : a novel / by Koval, Kristin,author.;
"When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn't just legal counsel--she's also the mother of Angie's ill-fated first love Julian, a successful criminal defense attorney. Martine promptly draws him into the legal battle against an overreaching district attorney determined to try Nora as an adult. As the families grapple with the lasting strain of blame and the complexities of an often unfair criminal justice system, Julian and Angie must confront their own culpability in a long-ago accident and the guilt they still carry over how their prior life together in New York City ended"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Criminal defense lawyers; Families; First loves; Forgiveness; Fratricide; Guilt; Siblings; Siblings; Terminally ill; Women lawyers;
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The book that wouldn't burn / by Lawrence, Mark,1966-author.;
The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust, where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change. Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Books and reading; Corruption; Girls; Imaginary places; Libraries; Memory; Secrecy; Strangers; Xenophobia; Young men;
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Summer with my sisters / by Chamberlin, Holly,1962-;
When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Homecoming; Sisters;
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Trashlands / by Stine, Alison,1978-author.;
"A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides ... In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a plucker, pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge ... When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. But is it possible to choose a future for herself?"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Climatic changes; Life change events; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Oculum / by Dowding, Philippa,1963-;
A thirteen year old girl has lived her entire life in a domed city, unaware there is a world outside the walls--a world in which there are adult humans, and where a "mother" is a living being, and not a robot.LSC
Subjects: Dystopias.; Robots; Children; Imaginary places;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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