Wilder, Derick
Summary: What's a kid to do when given a day-of-the-week underwear set? Wear Monday's undies on Monday, Tuesday's undies on Tuesday like a rule-following robot? No way. He'll cut and craft, snip and sew until every single one of his friends--from an octopus to a piggy bank to, yes, a line of ants--has their own pair of underwear, whether they want them or not.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WILWilder, Derick
Summary: In rhyming text a boy makes underpants for all his friends, from ants to dragons to piggy banks--before concluding that if they do not need underpants then neither does he.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILGarbera, Katherine.
Summary: Media magnate Tristan Sabina is a charmer whose talents have not gone unnoticed by his assistant Sheri. Following a night of shared passion, the two are bombarded by the paparazzi. Now to stave off scandal, Tristan has asked Sheri to play the role of his fiancée--a part she is only too willing to throw herself into.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GARDamico, Gina.
Summary: Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teach Lex the family business. She quickly assimilates into the peculiar...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Barber, Barbara E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low 1999
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Summary: "Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: 'Does it have a butt?' Everything from sheep to ghosts to dinosaurs is subjected to this all-important question, and Dad is a never-ending source of answers. On a laugh-out-loudfather-child ramble, we come to see that every butt, from a bullfrog's to a zombie's, has its own distinctive, and distinctively hilarious,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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Summary: This collection of stories explores the many ways people try to connect to each other and the world around them, from a newly single mother who interferes with her son's love life to a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 0000
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Summary: An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination. It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBambara, Toni Cade.
Summary: Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMDamico, Gina
Summary: Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama--and nothing about the fact that the production is fake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAMDeming, Sarah
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DEMSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLCastro Urío, Bàrbara
Summary: One-by-one twelve colorful cats, viewed through die-cut holes, return to the big white house, and settle down to sleep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD CASBarbery, Muriel
Summary: A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARHimick, Valerie.
Summary: Fun, fresh, and delicious, Life is a Cabernet celebrates romance, love, friendship, and wine. Like a good bottle of wine, with interesting characters, enticing twists, complex flavors, and a lingering taste, readers will savor Chloe's story. Chloe Applewhite, the manager of the tasting room at Northern Lights Winery on Old Mission Peninsula near Traverse City, Michigan, has a unique dating...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIMKerick, Mia
Summary: Robby's not in the closet because he never guessed he's gay, until he meets Tristan. They'll need courage and strength for a loving future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamspinner Press 2013
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Summary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRASummary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLStreisand, Barbra
Summary: In turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe where women are denied higher education, Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009