O'Connell, Jennifer
Summary: This true story describes the rescue of a humpback whale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.525 OCOMosca, Julia Finley
Summary: "As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness!"--Inside book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM MoscaCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BATH MOSByatt, A. S.
Contents: The glass coffin -- Gode's story -- The story of the eldest princess -- Dragons' breath -- The Djinn in the nightingale's eye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYABass, Rick
Summary: Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASSummary: A profile in courage; the stories of brave men and women who proudly served their country on a bold new journey of space discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NASAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Contents: I: Tales for children -- The emperor's new clothes -- The snow queen -- The princess and the pea -- The nightingale -- The ugly duckling -- The little mermaid -- The tinderbox -- The wild swans -- Thumbelina -- The little match girl -- The steadfast tin soldier -- Ole shut-eye -- II: Tales for adults -- The red shoes -- The shadow -- The psyche -- The most astonishing thing -- The story of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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Summary: "Since the 1980s, the Transformers toy line has been defining the lives of children with its mighty heroes. But the Robots in Disguise have morphed into much more than just a toy line! This biography for young readers tells the incredible story of the tiny toys that became blockbuster movie stars, comic book heroes, and more. Ride along with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Megatron as you learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 688.7 SNIHancock, Herbie
Contents: Suite Herbie I. Fingerpainting ; Driftin' ; Chameleon ; Tell me a bedtime story ; The eye of the hurricane ; The kiss (from Blow-up) ; Speak like a child -- Suite Herbie II. The sorcerer ; Dolphin dance ; Chan's song (from 'Round midnight) ; One finger snap ; Sly ; Oliloqui Valley ; Jane's theme (from Blow-up).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HANCOBruchac, James.
Summary: Twenty-four Native American legends and tales from across the United States capture a wide range of belief systems and wisdom from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Hopi, Lenape, Maidu, Seminole, Seneca, and other tribes. The beautifully retold tales, each with an informative introduction, range from creation stories and animal fables to stirring accounts of bravery and sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.089 BRULamott, Anne.
Summary: Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace. Lamott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 813.54 LAMLamott, Anne.
Summary: Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace. Lamott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 LamContents: Disc one Path through the forest / The Factory -- Father's name is dad / The Fire -- Gone with the Luminous nose / Fleur de Lys -- Mind's eye / Ramases & Selket -- Spontaneous apple creation / The Crazy World of Arthur Brown -- Lullaby / Grapefruit -- I will not be moved / Circe Plantagenet -- Sunday best / Turquoise -- My son John / The onyx -- The fantastic story of the steam-driven banana /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOOWelty, Eudora
Summary: Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this remarkable anthology, some of the world's greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize'winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets "render school life in all its complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEAGaiman, Neil
Summary: Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he presents his fashioning of the primeval Norse myths into a novel, which begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds, delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 293 GAICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 293 GAIGrandi, Marta del
Contents: Mata hari -- Eye of the day -- Chameleon eyes -- Snapdragon -- Marble season -- End of the world pt.1 -- Two halves -- Polar bear village -- Good story -- Selva -- Stay -- End of the world pt.2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK DELSummary: "The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWAs anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This years Nebula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr, an Imprint of Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEBSummary: Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston has lived a life of luxury in her cosmopolitan, turn-of-the-century hometown. Determined to reach beyond her sheltered world to help others, the headstrong schoolteacher heads for the impoverished Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to teach in a remote schoolhouse. As she grapples with the ignorance and poverty of the members of her new community, she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Christy 2006Anderson, M. T.
Summary: An amazing WW2 survival story of a time and place largely unfamiliar to today's teen reader: of an unlikely hero squeezed between the German invader and the Soviet government itself. Impeccably researched: eye-witness accounts provide anecdotal detail to a chilling story of the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRI ANDPittman, Craig
Summary: "It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very nearly right. That the panther still exists at all is a miracle--the result of a desperate experiment that led to the most remarkable comeback in the history of the Endangered Species Act. And no one has told the whole story--until now. With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.75 PITSummary: Back in the world of the living, Ichigo Kurosaki has been officially recognized as a Substitute Soul Reaper by the Soul Society. Then trouble comes to Karakura Town in the form of Visoreds, a group of ex-Soul Reapers that have crossed over into the realm of the Hollows. As they try to recruit Ichigo to their side, it is revealed that former Captain Sosuke Aizen is attempting to create an army...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLEPhilbrick, Nathaniel
Summary: "The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018