Summary: Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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Summary: Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JBR RED BRABranford, Anna.
Summary: After moving to a new neighborhood, a girl who is both a worrier and a problem solver meets a possible very good friend next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Little Pig Figwort cannot sleep, so he goes off to the North Pole, the moon, and the bottom of the sea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2000
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Summary: "Takes readers (and listeners) on a rollicking, clanging, clapping tour through the many sounds that fill a neighborhood"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARBranford, Anna.
Summary: Violet finds a special way to cope with moving to a new home after Mama marries Vincent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: With her knack for seeing the positive, six-year-old Violet anticipates extraordinary results after getting her tonsils removed, such as making a special new friend and turning her everyday voice into an opera voice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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Summary: As the youngest in her family, seven-year-old Violet identifies with small creatures in the natural world, but when she tries to help a special ladybug, she learns an important lesson about animal habitats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: DELTA 0000
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Summary: When Jazmine plans a day out in New Orleans without the interruption of cell phones, she and her dad spend quality time together and have the greatest day ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kidstown Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MarMargolis, Sue.
Summary: Tallulah's grandmother, Nana Ida, wants her granddaughter to have a big Jewish wedding although Tallulah and her fiancé would prefer a small wedding. After months of planning the groom doesn't show up. So Nana Ida gets busy with matchmaking and Tallulah discovers that happiness doesn't always come in the form of the perfect doctor and that real love doesn't require a catered affair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011
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Summary: Her husband left her for another man. Her boyfriend may be cheating. Her mother's got a secret. Is everyone having great sex but Rachel? "Spin Cycle" tells a wickedly funny, shamelessly erotic story of lovers and liars, exes and children, parents and other strangers. This hip and hilarious novel by the acclaimed author of "Neurotica" introduces a heroine who never loses her sense of humor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta 2001
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Summary: "Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARStanford, Phil
Summary: Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. Portland is often called the Rose City, but the denizens that inhabit its underbelly rarely smell so sweet. Dirty cops, dirty robbers. These shady characters and their illicit connections reveal the boiling corruption in Phil Stanford's true crime stories. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Welcome to the City of Roses. Dark Horse is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Summary: Two space expeditions--one American, the other Euro-Chinese--race to be the first on Mars and first to return to Earth. Both teams reach the planet, but with disastrous results. The problem now is not who will return to Earth, but if any of them will return at all. By the author of Cosm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENDiehl, Stanford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longstreet Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIEStanford, Claire
Summary: "Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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Summary: "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARDanford, Natalie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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Summary: In Brooklyn, New York, twelve-year-old dog-walker Maggie, aided by her twin brother Finn and best friend Lucy, investigates someone she believes is stealing pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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Summary: Maggie Brooklyn is distracted from solving the mystery of who is out to sabotage the new sweet shop in the neighborhood because her new dogsitting job has her and her twin brother Finn spending time in what may be a real haunted mansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2004
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Summary: In a futuristic galactic empire, a man and his robot wife escape from their enemies by transferring their minds into the bodies of animals. By the author of Sailing Bright Eternity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1997