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Mondays; 5 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (HALL)
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
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English
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Tony faces the daunting prospect of growing up amidst constant religious and cultural uncertainty. His mother is a devoted Catholic, but her influence is challenged by Ultima--a woman with magical healing powers. As Tony follows his own path toward adulthood, he relies on Ultima's wisdom. With her guidance, he is able to forge his unique identity.
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[2003]
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English
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The absent author: Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.
The bald bandit: Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.
The canary caper: Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.
11) Suspect
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[2005]
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English
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After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.
12) The jury
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Paul Madriani novels volume 6
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[2001]
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English
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Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical resarcher, is charged with the murder of a young colleague; twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, an African-American research physician, whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. But when a key witness for the prosecution dies unexpectedly, leaving an incriminating note behind, Crone's innocence seems confirmed--until Madriani hits...
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[2004]
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English
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Kate Harmon wonders how life got so complicated. One day she's flirting with the hottest guy in Dallas, and tehn the next she's travelling back to Cedar Dell after her father was involved in a car accident. Now back home with all the old folks, sweet potato pies, and awkward childhood memories, Kate figures she'll stick around awhile to help her father recuperate. But what she doesn't know is that her high school sweetheart is back in town, and he...
16) Missing May
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English
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
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44 Scotland Street volume 1
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[2005]
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English
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There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of trust, love, and loss.
18) Wish list
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Back when she was plain starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart, and vanished from her life. Later on in life, with a brilliant career, she sells her house in Hollywood for Chula Vista. There she meets Lex Sanders, a wealthy rancher and breeder of Arabian horses. There's something familiar about those smoldering eyes... something that triggers long-buried memories of passion so pure and perfect it couldn't possibly last.
20) Buck fever
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[2003]
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English
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It's the week before hunting season in Blanco County, Texas. Beer-guzzling poachers are everywhere, and game warden John Marlin has his hands full. But when a man dressed in a doe costume is shot, and a huge trophy buck goes crazy, things get stranger and stranger.
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