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Thorndike Press large print basicKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A brief biography of puppeteer and creator of the muppets, Jim Henson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HENSON KRUSummary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rogue 2017Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROGSummary: "Some loves must remain secret until the time is right. Declaring one's love can be hard--even risky--especially when faced with some of life's greatest challenges. Separated by class, time, distance, and more, nine historical novellas explore the challenges involved when you love someone but can't reveal your heart to them. Instead, notes of affection, acts of kindness, gifts of admiration,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Schine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHKroll, Steven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KROKroll, Steven.
Summary: Drago the little dragon surprises his family when he enters a stunts flying competition with them, after taking flying lessons from a bird.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Koen, Karleen.
Summary: An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEBarnhart, Cathleen
Summary: Told in two voices, middle-schoolers Sammie and David's long-term friendship is endangered when new student Luke begins flirting with Sammie just when David decides to confess his crush on her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARSchine, Cathleen
Summary: Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: "Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Canine companions compel their masters to go outside themselves, take part in the Manhattan community they live in, make friends, and fall in love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Greta finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her grown daughter, Elizabeth, by the increasingly eccentric behavior of her widowed mother, and by unexpectedly falling in love with someone other than her devoted husband.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHKroll, Steven.
Summary: Jealous when his brother's loose tooth gets him all the attention, Flapper decides to steal the tooth before the tooth fairy can come.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KROKroll, Steven.
Summary: Recounts the "real story" of the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims pursued such tough turkeys for dinner that they had to settle for squash.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KROSchine, Cathleen
Summary: "The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is inactuality another woman. She and her two grown daughters who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home and whose own lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion regroup in a small,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCHKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Assuming the responsibilities of governing France after the death of his prime minister, Louis XIV embarks on a love affair with his sister-in-law, Henriette, triggering a scandal that is complicated by a finance minister's growing power and a mysterious boy with an iron mask.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: In the early 1700s, recently widowed Barbara Montgeoffry, the 20-year-old Countess of Devan whose husband died in scandalous circumstances, sails to Virginia for a change of air and takes over management of a family tobacco plantation. In Virginia she creates a stir with her conquests--despite being in mourning--and by freeing slaves. Disturbing news from England, however, send her home to take...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man -- the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps in to govern France. He's still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes all he can get -- including his brother's wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates.Through a glass darkly kill sweep you away tothe splendors of a lost era. Like gone with the wind,it is richwith characters so vivid -- from aristocrats toscoundrels--they create their own immortality Here is thestory of a great family ruled by a dowager of extraordinarypower: of a young woman seeking low in a world of Englishluxury...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986