Sullivan, Deirdre
Summary: A dark, feminist retelling of 'The Children of Lir' told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of the favourite Irish fairytale 'The Children of Lir'. Aífe marries Lir, a king with four children by his previous wife. Jealous of his affection for his children, the witch Aífe turns them into swans for 900 years. Retold through the voice of Aífe, Savage Her Reply is unsettling and dark,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SULGoodkind, Terry
Summary: Fuer Grissa Ost Drauka is The Bringer of Death-- and she is coming. There is a fracture in the world of life, an opening into the world of death. And to confront an apocalyptic nightmare, Richard Rahl must step into darkness.... -- adapted from bookdepository.com info
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Goodkind 2020Swans
Contents: CD. Lunacy -- Mother of the world -- The wolf -- The seer -- The seer returns -- 93 Ave. B blues -- The daughter brings the water -- Song for a warrior -- Avatar -- A piece of the sky -- The apostate-- --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Young God 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SWAStevens, Sufjan.
Contents: All the trees of the field will clap their hands -- Dress looks nice on you -- In the devil's territory -- To be alone with you -- Abraham -- Sister -- Size too small -- We won't need legs to stand -- Good man is hard to find -- He woke me up again -- Seven swans -- Transfiguration.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds Familyre 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SteveBodden, Valerie.
Summary: Provides a basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of swans, a family of large and graceful birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.418 BODChildren of Alice (Musical group)
Contents: The harbinger of spring (19:18) -- Righ of the maypole - an unruly procession (6:48) -- Invocation of a midsummer reverie (9:04) -- The liminal space (5:11).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC CHISummary: "A satirical jab at network medical dramas, Childrens Hospital explores the lives of a group of self-absorbed doctors"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHISummary: In the Lord's Resistance Army, eight out of ten rebels are under 16 years of age. Some are as young as 6. Providing rare footage of guerrilla leader Joseph Kony, interviews with President Museveni and village and church leaders, and firsthand accounts of the child soldiers and their families, this program reveals the stark facts of life in northern Uganda's Acholi villages. There thousands of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Shields, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIKemmerer, Brigid
Summary: Magic has been banished in the land of Syhl Shallow for as long as best friends Jax and Callyn can remember. They once loved the stories of the powerful magesmiths and mythical scravers who could conjure fire or control ice, but now they've learned that magic only leads to danger: magic is what killed Callyn's parents, leaving her alone to raise her younger sister. Magic never helped Jax, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Black Swans (Musical group)
Contents: Boo hoo -- Joe Tex -- Don't blame the stars -- Sunshine street -- My brother -- I forgot to change the windshield wipers in my mind -- Mean medicine -- Worry stone -- Blue bayou -- Little things.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Misra Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLAGoodkind, Terry
Summary: The story of a world confronted by an apocalyptic nightmare. Continues Richard and Kahlan's lives after the Sword of Truth series in novella form.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HADWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Four orphans take shelter in an old boxcar during a storm, and, determined to make it their own, they turn it into a safe, cozy home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARCopies Available at East Bay
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARLloyd, Natalie
Summary: Seven siblings are forced by the destruction of their swamp home to move into their grandpa's mansion, but greedy neighbors plot to steal their secrets and place them in homes far away from each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LLOBlack Swans (Musical group)
Summary: "The Columbus, Ohio-based folk band returns with their excellent fifth album, Occasion For Song, out now on Misra Records. On the emotional first single, singer Jerry DeCicca describes with vivid detail the loss of violinist Noel Sayre in 2008 during a swimming accident and the rest of the album deals with his loss and his memory in an unflinching and visceral way that is humbling yet also...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Misra Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLASwans (Musical group)
Contents: In -- I am the sun -- She lives! -- Celebrity lifestyle -- Mother/Father -- Blood promise -- Mind/body/light/sound -- My buried child -- Warm -- Alcohol the seed -- Killing for company -- Mother's milk -- Where does a body end? -- Telepathy -- The great annihilator -- Out -- I am the sun.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Invisible Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SWAYellow Swans (Musical group)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Acuarela 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE YelloHeine, Florian.
Summary: Buildings of every shape and size and from all corners of the world, populate this colorful and beautifully produced book that introduces children to history's most iconic architectural feats and the people behind them. In lively illustrated spreads, young readers will learn how Christopher Wren reconstructed an 11th-century cathedral after London's great fire of 1666 to become the St Paul's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JT 720.922 FlorianHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2016Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2018Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1993
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1977
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2 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WARSummary: In addition to trade goods, religious beliefs also followed the ancient Silk Road into China. Today, a vibrant minority of more than 20 million Chinese Muslims of various ethnic groups live harmoniously among an overall population of more than a billion. This program traces the history of Islam in China while illustrating the Muslim way of life there, including prayer, religious education, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006