Summary: Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England. In one evening, four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEPNavin, Rhiannon
Summary: Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NAVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NAVScillian, Devin.
Summary: When Brewster, a prize-winning rooster, suddenly begins crowing at the most unexpected times, the family tries to figure out what is causing his problem.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ScillScillian, Devin.
Summary: After Cosmo's affection for the Moon causes it to leave its orbit and begin to follow him around, he must reassure the Moon that saying goodbye makes the hello even sweeter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ScillMurphy, Devin
Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem. On days when they aren't playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their Uncle Martin on his fishing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MURMurphy, Devin
Summary: In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MURScillian, Devin
Summary: "Join a brilliant, but stubborn, parrot as he endures the banality of the pet store before being purchased by an equally insufferable young man. But while things between parrot and owner get off to a rocky start, the delights of having a pet (or human) bring them both around in the end"-Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCIScillian, Devin
Summary: Oliver the tortoise looks back on his happy life as he wonders why his pet human, Ike, who he has had for eighty years, has stopped visiting the garden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCIScillian, Devin
Summary: "From a mischief of mice and a shiver of sharks to a caravan of camels and a rhumba of rattlesnakes, animals from around the globe gather a group and sashay, swim, slither, or sail through this party of animal plurals"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCIScillian, Devin.
Summary: ""Under Spark Elf's direction, Santa delivers presents in the allotted twenty-four hours only to arrive at the North Pole with a stowaway in the toy bag, a family's beloved dog"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2014
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E SCICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCIHunter, Devin
Summary: With only three days left before they may be trapped, Grey and his squad are in the top ten, but while he may be ranked high enough to escape, he fears he may not be able to bring them all with him--and whatever he does he will lose something.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUNScillian, Devin
Summary: "When country toads, Hank and Buckeroo, hear some folks talking about going 'fly-fishing,' they know they have to tag along. What could be better than fishing for flies?! So they stow away in a picnic basket and prepare for the feast of their lives"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCIHunter, Devin
Summary: "Time is running out for Grey and his squad. While they consistently rank in the top twenty players stuck in Fortnite Battle Royale, they need to be the top five to escape virtual reality and go home. Grey's team begins to fray apart, and he fears he won't be able to keep them together long enough to get the rank they need. With the season ending in a couple weeks, people are either giving up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUNMurphy, Devin
Summary: Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealized the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURScillian, Devin.
Summary: A goldfish gives a personal account of his experiences while swimming around his bowl as it slowly fills with fish and other accessories, only to realize when he is relocated for a cleaning how much he misses them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SCICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCIScillian, Devin.
Summary: "A pet hamster is enticed by the family cat to venture outside his well-equipped cage to the sunroom only to very quickly discover life outside his cage is not the best for him."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2013