Lander, Christian.
Summary: From the Publisher: They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees. They believe they're unique, yet somehow they're all exactly the same, talking about how they "get" Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 LANJustus, Rob
Summary: Being Death is a lonely job, especially when everything you touch instantly dies (not to mention the paperwork); but being Sparkles the Last Unicorn is not much fun either, since everyone just wants to take selfies with you or use you to sell stuff--but when Death and Sparkles meet between life and, well, death, it is the beginning of a friendship that just might change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Summary: "There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOGunderson, Jessica
Summary: A humorous retelling of the fairy tale as told from the point of view of the misunderstood wolf, who suffers from "uncontrollable breathing syndrome" and really just wants to be friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC GUNMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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Summary: This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America, The 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALPratchett, Terry.
Summary: "The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRADyckman, Ame
Summary: Og learns the value of teamwork as he builds a robot with Mog and Dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR ORANGE DYCRaúl the Third
Summary: It's lunchtime for young El Toro and his friends--and each one is looking forward to a different kind of taco, their favorite! The luchadores take a break from their training and head into town to eat. When they count their lunch money and discover they don't have enough for tacos, they will have to work together on a creative, fun solution to earn plenty of dinero for a delicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN RAUErickson, John R.
Summary: #1: While investigating a murder on the ranch, Hank finds himself the number one suspect. #2: Hank conducts defensive maneuvers against an attacking silver monster bird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick Books 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: J CD ERIMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Excitement abounds when the revolving door of life brings fresh faces and hilarious new developments to the residents of Edinburgh's fictitious 44 Scotland Street"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCShelton, Dave
Summary: "Daphne is off to an exclusive girls' boarding school, where she'll be given a brand-new start after her expulsion. But St. Rita's school for girls is not your ordinary school. And these are certainly not ordinary girls. As it turns out, nothing is quite what you'd expect at St. Rita's. But then she meets Emily Lime, a crime-solving genius, who's looking for a new library assistant. And the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Shelton 2019McCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Things are looking up for seven-year-old Bertie Pollock. The arrival of his spirited grandmother and the absence of his meddlesome mother--who is currently running a book club in a Bedouin harem (don't ask)--bring unforeseen blessings: no psychotherapy, no Italian lessons, and no yoga classes. Meanwhile, surprises await Scotland Street's grown-ups. Matthew makes a discovery that could be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCNess, Patrick
Summary: What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NESHutchison, Barry
Summary: "After Lisa Marie and her big brother, Vernon, visit a Create-a-Ted store, something unexpected happens. Their teddy bears come to life! And it turns out theirs aren't the only ones... All kinds of stuffed bears--zombies, ghosts, aliens, and more--are suddenly alive and on the loose, and they're not playing nice. Soon there is an army of evil teddy bears creating mayhem all over town! Can Lisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HUTWaxman, Abbi
Summary: "Nina Hill's life may not seem like much, but for a person battling anxiety, it's more than enough. She enjoys her job at a bookstore and her small circle of friends. Until a visit from a lawyer changes everything ... The father that Nina never knew existed has died, leaving behind an enormous extended family. Nina now has innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, and cousins all living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAXAdams, Douglas
Summary: In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: The lives of the colorful residents of a San Francisco boarding house are comically intertwined as they search for themselves, their lovers, and families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUAnam, Tahmima
Summary: "Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Cyrus inspires Asha to write a new algorithm. Before she knows it, she's abandoned her PhD program, they've exchanged vows, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia. The platform creates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: LP FIC ANALoewen, Nancy
Summary: A humorous retelling of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, told from the witch's point of view--who rescues the children from their wicked stepmother, and teaches them food art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC LOEFitzgerald, John Dennis.
Summary: In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1969