Summary: George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVE HERMetzger, Cécile
Summary: "A simple act of kindness brings two unlikely friends together in this profound picture book about the transformative power of friendship. A bear sits in his quiet, colorless home in a forgotten place. He feels invisible; no one comes to see him, and he spends his days alone. Then someone moves in next door. Madame Odette is sound and sunshine, and at first, the bear isn't sure about this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE METBergame, Cécile
Summary: "When a little pea escapes a girl who is shelling peas, it rolls off the kitchen table, onto the floor, and an adventure begins. The runaway pea rolls passed several hungry animals. It manages to evade a mouse, a cat, a rabbit, a hen, a pig, and a wolf, finally resting in the perfect place. The girl will find it again after some time has passed for a surprise conclusion. This circular story,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERPin, Cecile
Summary: "A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINBlackman, Malorie
Summary: Sephy is a Cross- dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought- pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing. But he dreams of a better life.Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. But this is love story that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASilvano, Wendi
Summary: "Everyone loves Halloween candy--even Turkey. But how can he and his barnyard friends get any when the farmers only give it out to children? With a costume, of course! As his pals look on, Turkey comes up with one clever costume after another. Each trick gets better and better...but will Turkey and his friends end up with any treats?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SILSilvano, Wendi
Summary: When he discovers that animals aren't allowed to attend school, Turkey must find a way to show the principal and students that turkeys--and their friends--do belong in school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILGalant, Debra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GALRushdie, Salman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSMcLaren, Kaya
Summary: "In Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping, during one unforgettable summer, three generations of one family receive the best gift of all time: a second chance ... The day her doctor says the one word that no one wants to hear, Amy Bergstrom discovers a secret that her husband of 25 years has been keeping from her. Now that the months of treatment and surgeries are behind her, she escapes her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCLMcLaren, Kaya.
Summary: Tells the story of three different women--Jill returning home after heartbreak, Lisa looking for real romance, and ten-year-old Cassie grieving her deceased mother--and their transition from loss to love in a small Colorado ski town named Sparkle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCLMcLaren, Kaya
Summary: "As a young girl, Willow's mother left their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. And with that, she and her daughter set off to New Mexico, to a new life, to a world of arroyos and canyons bordering an Apache reservation. Willow was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P MCLMcLaren, Meg
Summary: A pigeon private eye captures a birdnapper with help from his feathered friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction McLaren 2017McLaren, Kaya
Summary: "Set in New Mexico, this novel explores the complexities of mothers and daughters, the uncertainty of second chances, and the courage to stand on your own two feet"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McLaren 2017Migdal, Sylvan
Summary: "Anaïs Phalèse plays softball, panics about her physics exams, and lives on what the rest of the interdimensional realities dismiss as Boring World . . . better known to us as "Earth." That is, of course, until one fateful trip to the organic food market when Anaïs gets shot in the arm while trying to help a bizarre and beautiful stranger. This is the fabulous Fauna Lokjom, Licorice Princess of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2019
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Summary: "Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCLMcLain, Paula.
Summary: In this fictional memoir, Hadley Hemingway chronicles the life and career of her husband, famed twentieth century writer Ernest Hemingway. Through Hadley's unique perspective, listeners get a behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the Lost Generation writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLMcLaren, Kaya.
Summary: Three people in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado, search for hope and love after painful losses, including a woman who discovered her husband's infidelity after a miscarriage, a woman whose best romantic prospect is a ski bum best friend, and a girl who longs for messages from her cancer victim mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLSilvano, Wendi
Summary: "Turkey is visiting the ocean for the very first time! But when he arrives, he has to stay in Farmer Jake's petting zoo on the boardwalk. If only he could get to the beach for some splashing and surfing.... Luckily, his friends are determined to help him have an utterly crab-ulous beach day, offi-shell duties or not--and they get to have some fun along the way." -- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2023
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Summary: Louie can sense that his charmed Chihuahua life is about to change as his parents prepare to welcome a new addition to the family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FUCSnodgrass, Cecily
Summary: Princess Regina has something wicked waiting in the wings for the school play in this hilarious Level 2 Ready-to-Read story. Miss Prunerot has big plans for this year's class play. The princesses will be starring in The Wizard of Oz. Regina--the Really Rotten Princess--is cast as Glinda the Good Witch. At first it seems like the role might be rubbing off on Regina. She's on her best behavior....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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Summary: For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called "survivors" could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker, is one such sufferer. At 45, Nazerman, who survived Bergen-Belsen although his wife and children did not, runs a Harlem pawnshop. But the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fig Tree Books LLC 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALRushdie, Salman
Summary: "When the aristocratic Golden family moves into a self contained pocket of New York City, a park in Greenwich Village called "The Gardens," their past is an absolute mystery. They seem to be hiding in plain sight: Nero Golden, the powerful but shady patriarch, and his sons Petya, a high functioning autistic and recluse; Apu, the successful artist who may or may not be profound; and D, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rushdie 2017Rushdie, Salman.
Summary: A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008