Summary: Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIKAki, Evi
Summary: In Flavors of Africa, Evi Aki shares the traditional Nigerian dishes she grew up enjoying, as well as typical eats from all across the continent. She introduces customary recipes from each of Africa's different regions, including meals from Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Angola and more, all of which she collected with the help of relatives and family friends. Whether...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishng Co. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.596 AKISummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GREAvi
Summary: Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: "A wolf and bird must fight the starving time and find food, while a human boy learns to hunt"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2015Avi
Summary: After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD AVIAvi
Summary: In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2017Summary: Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen year old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME INAvi
Summary: Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1996
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2011Avi
Summary: Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies, and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AVICopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction AVI 2017Avi
Summary: In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBE PURPLE AVIAvi
Summary: Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999