Berger, Samantha
Summary: "Starting with A and ending with Z, this beautifully illustrated book will show young readers the many ways they can make the world a kinder place."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highlights Press 2020
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Summary: "This young adult mystery horror takes us to a remote borderline village in an intentionally unspecified place and time where people still live by their own rules and still believe in old gods. Twelve years ago, four children suddenly disappeared without trace. Now during the winter solstice, three of them returned out of nowhere as teenagers with no memory of what happened to them. Astrid, Tom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albatros 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SARBivald, Katarina
Summary: It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life; has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIVTruhen, Aidan
Summary: "In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him. All is good in the life of Jack Price. His drug operation is the Amazon of cocaine trafficking, and no one can breach his complex security system. But then: his downstairs neighbor is professionally executed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUJovanovic, Katarina
Summary: "Cardboard City follows the lives of two young teens--members of a Romani family. Saida and Nikola experience harsh discrimination at school and crushing poverty in their improvised settlement, spread out under a bridge in Belgrade. Their dreams of escape and of leaving deplorable conditions behind trigger a family crisis. In particular, Nikola is a gifted trumpeter and aspires to be a famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tradewind Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOVCharman, Katrina
Summary: Skull, the Shadow, and a few of the rat army escaped into Perodia, and now Tag and the other defenders must locate them, and also find their friend, Bod, who is still trapped in the Underland with the rest of the rat army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHAMoore, Katrina
Summary: Daisy, a young Chinese American girl, is excited to be celebrating the Lunar New Year with her Yeh-Yeh in China, but at first she is too grumpy from lack of sleep to enjoy the activities he has planned. Includes recipes for fried Jiao Zi (dumplings) and Eight Treasure Rice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOOCharman, Katrina
Summary: "A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHACharman, Katrina
Summary: Tag, Skyla, and Blaze are on a new quest to find Blaze's family, and Thorn's twin brother, Claw (who claims to be nothing like his evil brother), has offered to guide them to the mysterious Golden Temple where the firehawks were last seen; but the jungle is full of dangers and Tag is not sure they can trust Claw--and even if they find the firehawks, will that help them return to their home in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHATruman, Phil
Summary: When a family is found brutally murdered deep in the tribal lands of the Quapaw in the new state of Oklahoma, evidence leads fledgling Deputy U.S. Marshal Jubal Smoak to suspect the outlaw Crow Redhand. But the savagery of the murders doesn't add up for that of a common cattle thief and bank robber, only that he knew the victims. The Quapaw say a legendary demon has awakened, come to terrorize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PTI Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUCharman, Katrina
Summary: Now that Thorn has been defeated, Tag and his friend Skyla embark on a new quest, to find Blaze's lost family and the other firehawks who disappeared through a portal to the Cloud Kingdom; but the Cloud Kingdom is full of new dangers, and when giant birds seize Blaze and carry her off Tag and Skyla are left to try and free their friend--with only a magic map to guide them, and the threat of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHANannestad, Katrina
Summary: In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NANCharman, Katrina.
Summary: Celebrates all sorts of motor vehicles through illustrations and rhyming text that can be sung to the tune of "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2018
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Summary: Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Goldsaito 2016Moore, Katrina
Summary: "Bessie Lee goes all out for Valentine's Day in the second book of the Teeny Houdini chapter book series from author Katrina Moore and illustrator Zoe Si. The adventures of Teeny Houdini come in short, easy-to-read chapters full of hilarious illustrations--a favorite series for building confident readers! Bessie is in charge of making an extra-special valentine for the new kid in school....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JBR RED MOOSummary: A collection of children's stories about love and families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2011
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Summary: Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPBain, Donald
Summary: "Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Bain 2014Arakawa, Hiromu
Summary: In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical "auto-mail: limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his brother and himself ... the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ARA Bk 6Arakawa, Hiromu
Summary: "Where did Alphonse Eric go during the few short minutes he was wiped from existence, body and soul? From a secret lair in the city of Dublith, a group of outcasts kidnaps Alphonse to find the alchemical secrets of his creation! It's up to Ed (and a certain housewife) to go into the Devil's Nest and rescue his brother. But the criminals of the Devil's Nest aren't exactly human either. Now, Al...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FULBain, Donald
Summary: If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRUSykes, Julie
Summary: Isabel is having trouble getting along with other students, her teacher, and even her unicorn, Cloud, but another threat to Unicorn Academy brings them back together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SYK Book 4Tarshis, Lauren
Summary: Historical fiction. When disaster strikes, heroes are made. New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in the thrilling I SURVIVED series In this collection, witness unforgettable kids who, against all odds, survived sinking ships, shark attacks, the most destructive hurricane to hit North America, and the bombing that launched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARTorres Sanchez, Jenny
Summary: "La travesía llena de peligros, resiliencia, dolor y esperanza de tres adolescentes guatemaltecos que cruzan la frontera entre México y Estado Unidos. En este impresionante retrato de tres vidas injustamente destrozadas, basado en hechos reales, Jenny Torres Sanchez resalta el sacrificio de los migrantes en la frontera sur a través de una narración vívida y conmovedora."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2021