Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR ORANGE KERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KERSummary: Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CHAGlynn, Connie
Summary: When the students at Rosewood Hall are targeted by members of a secret society, Lottie Pumpkin and Ellie Wolf must find the culprit before the school is forced to close its doors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLYWard, Lynd
Summary: Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1980
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARGlynn, Dylan
Summary: Wherever Rain Boy goes, rain follows, and when he is invited to Sun Kidd's birthday party the other children complain that his presence is ruining their fun; now Sun Kidd is hiding in her room because she is upset by her friends' behavior, and an apparently an endless storm has descended on the world--until they all discover that something wonderful happens when rain and sun finally get together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2020
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Summary: Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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Summary: "Returned from a three-year Grand Tour, Gideon Viscount St. Mars is accused of murdering his own father. Son of a Jacobite with no friends at Court, Gideon must escape arrest or be hanged. The only person willing to help him is Hester Kean, waiting woman to the lady he had hoped to wed. With her intelligence and his daring--in the guise of the highwayman, Blue Satan--they uncover the secrets...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pemberley Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYNGlynn, Alan.
Summary: On a bright Saturday morning, a Wall Stree investment banker is shot dead while joggin in Central park. Hours later, one of New York's savviest hedge-fund managers is gunned down outside a restaurant. Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has hunch that they are connected, and when an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, her theory is confirmed. As the story blows wide open and Ellen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLYGlynn, Connie
Summary: Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who has spent her life longing for the extraordinary. Ellie Wolf is the crown princess of Maradova, who wants nothing more than a chance at an ordinary life. When fate puts Lottie and Ellie in the same dorm room at the prestigious Rosewood Hall, there's only one solution: for the girls to swap identities, and live the lives they've always dreamed of. But at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: The loving but difficult marriage between Siri and Jon is challenged during a summer visit on the coast of Norway by the disappearance of their nanny and the wrenching feelings of guilt suffered by everyone associated with her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ULLUllmann, Linn
Summary: Presents a genre-bending novel about time, memory, and the author's extraordinary childhood as the daughter of a genius filmmaker and his muse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION ULLUllmann, Linn.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDFIC ULLWard, Lynd
Summary: Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Summary: A bold reimaging of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOLyon, George Ella
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal different kinds of trains, how they run, and the sounds they make.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LYOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LYOKovic, Ron.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quality Paperback Book Club 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 KOVHynd, Noel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYNLanh, Andrew
Summary: Rick van Lam is bui doi , "a child of dust," as the Vietnamese scornfully called a mixed-blood kid whose father was an unknown American GI. But Rick was lucky-in time he was sent to America. And he's ended up in Hartford, Connecticut, where he's made a life as a private eye after leaving a career as a cop at the NYPD. Rick is also teaching a part-time course at Farmington College where brainy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLeng, Qin
Summary: "With beautifully composed watercolor illustrations, Qin Leng recalls her own childhood in this story about a little girl who has always been the smallest: smallest of the family, smallest in school, smallest in a crowd. The girl faces her own set of challenges, but her loving parents and an unexpected visitor might change her perception for good."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LENLyon, Rachel
Summary: An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: Pursued by the sinister Dr. DeWilde and his ravenous wolves, three sisters--Storm, the inheritor of a special musical pipe, the elder Aurora, and the baby Any--flee into the woods and begin a treacherous journey filled with many dangers as they try to find a way to defeat their pursuer and keep him from taking the pipe and control of the entire land.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2006