Varon, Sara
Summary: "Sara loves to draw and tell stories, but sometimes it can be difficult to get started. What if she doesn't have any good ideas or her drawings turn out terrible?! Lucky for Sara, she has a friend who is always by her side--her pencil. With a little helpfrom Pencil, Sara learns it's okay if her story isn't perfect, as long as she's using her imagination and having fun"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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Summary: The enduring friendship between a dog and a robot is portrayed in this wordless graphic novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VARSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGSummary: Fourteen children's book artists draw their favorite foods and explain why they love them, using short stories, statements, and poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARSiamon, Sharon.
Summary: Text and photographs describe paleontologists and their fossil discoveries in Canada's Red Deer River Valley, also known as Dinosaur Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Pub. 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SIASummary: "Catherine Frazee, Wesley Smith, Jean Echlin, Bobby Schindler, Adrian Dieleman and Senator Sharon Carstairs ... bring a wealth of personal experience and insight to a society that would be at risk if assisted suicide were legalized. They expose the oversimplification, flaws and myths surrounding safeguards, pain management and suffering."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Salt and Light Television Productions 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TURTeatro Alla Scala
Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRASala, Enric
Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 SALApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "A poignant, heartbreaking new work by "one of the best novelists alive" (Irving Howe)--the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other's lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment advisor, he lives alone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPBackus, Sharron.
Summary: Explains the rules and fundamental skills of softball, shows how players can improve their skills, and discusses team and individual strategies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1979
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Summary: "We all have a duty to affect others--from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can we become better? It turns out that many of our instincts--from relying on facts and figures to shape opinions, to insisting others are wrong or attempting to exert control--are ineffective, because they are incompatible with how peoples minds operate. Sharot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 SHASummary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREStanišić, Saša
Summary: HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was danach kommt. HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über ein Dorf, in dem nur noch dreizehn Menschen leben, ein Land, das es heute nicht mehr gibt, eine zersplitterte Familie, die meine ist. Es ist ein Buch über die Frage, was zu mir gehört, ein Selbstporträt mit Ahnen. Und ein Scheitern des Selbstporträts. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: btb 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 STASheron, Jessica
Summary: In a dark fantasy retelling of "The Little Mermaid," a young girl barely escapes an encounter with a deadly mermaid, and the two quickly form a romantic bond that threatens all of their social ties on land and beneath the sea.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Sala, Enrico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.862 SALNewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 NEWAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAAbdelnour, Salma.
Summary: The author chronicles her return to Lebanon after leaving the war-torn country at the age of nine and living in the United States for thirty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.925 ABDELNOUR, SALMA ABDRubio, Salva
Summary: From many years without recognition, money and yet a family to raise, all the way to great success, critically and financially, Monet pursued insistently one vision: catching the light in painting, refusing to compromise on this ethereal pursuit. It cost him dearly but he was a beacon for his contemporaries. We discover in this comics biography how he came to this vision as well as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RUBSalo, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 499.99 SALSalak, Kira
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 SALRubio, Salva
Summary: "This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. Through an odd turn of events, Boix finds himself the confidant of an SS officer who is documenting prisoner deaths at the camp. Boix realizes that he has a chance to prove Nazi war crimes by stealing the negatives of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Reckoning 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RUBSale, Kirkpatrick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.015 SALKacenberg, Mala
Summary: "The incredible true story of a young girl who navigated dangerous forests, outwitted Nazi soldiers, and survived against all odds with the companionship of a stray cat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022