Tebbit, Jake
Summary: Wide awake yet again, Woolly the sheep asks his barnyard friends how they lull themselves to sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Star Bright Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TEBSummary: Living in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob lives in a two-story pineapple. Instead of taking a more logical approach to everyday challenges, SpongeBob usually approaches life in an unconventional way. Whether searching for the ultimate spatula to perfect his burger flipping technique at the Krusty Krab, or just hanging out with his best pal Patrick, SpongeBob's good intentions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPOSummary: Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hairspray 2002Wake, Elliot
Summary: "Vlog star Renard Grant has nothing to prove: he's got a pretty face, chiseled body, and two million adoring video subscribers. Plus the scars on his chest and a prescription for testosterone. Because Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as male. He films his transition and shares it bravely with the world; his fans love his honesty and positivity. But Ren has been living a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAKHiggins, Jace
Summary: Sunny the bunny is finding it hard to say goodbye to home before she leaves for sleep away camp. When she decides to try new things at camp, Sunny discovers that new things can be fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGSummary: "Enjoy two series of romances under one cover from authors Kimberley Comeaux and Cathy Marie Hake. First head to Springton, Texas, where two Texas belles - a pretty outcast and a shy nurse - find rattlesnakes easier to lasso than the hearts of the men they desire. Then join the Gregor brothers from Scotland - doctor, cobbler, lawman - as they settle in the Wild West, seeking wives to help them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONJaye, Lola
Summary: Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAYJanke, Katelan.
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes an historical note about life in America in 1935.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DAJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Summary: The second volume in The Kent Family Chronicles, in which young Philip Kent, having escaped the murderous intentions of his half-brother in France, becomes caught up in the valor and turmoil of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1978
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Summary: A poignant and provocative story of adoption, self-discovery, and the meaning of family, Being Lara by author Lola Jaye ( By the Time You Read This ) is an unforgettable tale of three women—British mother, Nigerian birth mother, and 30-year-old daughter—the choices they made, and the fragile bond they try to create across time and continents. Intelligent and touching, Being Lara is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Jaye, Lola.
Summary: "Lara Reid knew she was an alien. What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word 'adopted'. Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake; a woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAYJaye, Lola
Summary: This novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity, and belonging, features two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC JAYGebbie, Vanessa.
Summary: When nine-year old Laddy Merridew goes to live with his grandmother in a small Welsh town, he befriends the town beggar-storyteller, Ianto and learns about the Kindly Lights coal mine collapse that had a profound effect on the lives of subsequent generations of townspeople.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEBUlfsak, Lembit
Summary: In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, two Estonian immigrant farmers decide to remain in Georgia long enough to be able to harvest their tangerine crop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run 2015
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Chang, Jade
Summary: "A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovableimmigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASong, Jade
Summary: "Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SONEdwardson, Ake
Summary: An unidentified woman is found in a park. Examination shows that she had borne a child. Chief Inspector Erik Winter and his team are unable to find out who she is for quite a long time. Meanwhile, the child is in danger and may have been killed as well. It turns out that the child is experiencing a repeat of the mother's childhood history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWAdia, Jade
Summary: Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an eviction notice from a greedy landlord threatens to split up the crew, Rhea and her friends use social media to form a fake gang in hopes of scaring off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ADIBeer, Jade
Summary: "The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses.... London, 2017. There's no one Lucille loves more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she's ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something that is precious to her, she's happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with retrieving a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeerJakes, John
Summary: The final volume of The Kent Family Chronicles, following family members as they race for wealth, leaving young Will to redeem Philip Kent's American dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Summary: Post-Civil War prosperity has transformed the nation as well and the Kents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2005