Bell, Cece
Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BELSteyns, Lee Ann
Summary: "My first baby signs teaches basic signs that provide families with a way to communicate before babies can talk at all. The picture book format keeps the learning fun while introducing over 40 key American Sign Language (ASL) signs in context- each with their own visual and written guide. Your little one will learn to express their needs, wants, and frustrations with simple gestures-and you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 419 STEReynolds, Emma
Summary: Emma Reynolds shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth. From Autumn Peltier campaigning for clean water to Edgar Edmund Tarimo turning plastic waste into building materials-and many more-these inspiring true stories highlight the importance of taking charge and creating change. Beautifully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYBurpo, Todd.
Summary: Todd Burpo shares his son Colton's experiences having visions of heaven after a near-fatal illness, describing what Colton saw in heaven and the lessons he has learned about faith and love after listening to Colton's stories of his time with Jesus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grupo Nelson 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 460 BURPO, TODD BURNeal, Mary C.
Summary: Recounts the author's life, including her death and experiences in Heaven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel NealDince, Adam S.
Summary: "Adam [Dince] became a certified hypnotherapist who specializes in regressing clients back to memories and experiences in their present life, past lives, and life between lives. In Back to the Beyond, he introduces us to a new hypnotherapy modality he calls near-death experience (NDE) regression and relates the experiences of his clients."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit DinceNeuhaus, Richard John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 2002
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Summary: "...documents 34 incidents of paranormal events in my life: telepathy, telekinesis, ghosts, demons, guardian angels, precognition, near-death experiences and more. Timeless offers a message of encouragement for others to share their stories of the paranormal and to be assured that there is a life beyond this one and that we are, indeed, timeless."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog Publishing/Tuscany Bay Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 SOLSmith, Dominic.
Summary: Possessing a superior intellect that is nevertheless overshadowed by his physicist father's genius, Nathan Nelson fails to fulfill his father's definition of a child prodigy until a head injury enables him to manifest a photographic memory, with unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIBurke, John
Summary: John Burke compares gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven. The author shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors--including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of all ages and cultures, and even blind people--point to the exhilarating picture of Heaven promised in the Bible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 BURCrandall, Chauncey W.
Summary: How a doctor's glimpses of eternity confirmed everything he believed about God, suffering, life on earth, and what happens after death. Dr. Chauncey Crandall knows his patients well. When they are dying, he sits at the bedside with them and holds their hands. He prays with them. Sometimes he can feel what they feel and see what they see. At other times his patients have near-death experiences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 CRASánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANHeelan, Jamee Riggio
Summary: Chris, a boy who was born deaf, tells how he uses sign language, hearing aids, and his other senses to communicate with others, how his friends help him, and how, with the help of an interpreter, he can attend public school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.4 HEEBeam, Christy.
Summary: Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree -- and survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEAM, ANNABEL BEAHood, Susan
Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARSBorth, Teddy
Summary: Dean Ambrose has wrestled all over the world for over 14 years. Discover the journey that led Ambrose to becoming one of WWE's top stars and earning every championship they have to offer. The easy to read text is joined with beautiful and colorful photographs showing some of Abrose's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards, Bolt is an imprint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BORFavreau, Marc
Summary: "Marc Favreau documents the Great Depression--a time when Americans from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear--and tells the incredible story of how they survived and, ultimately, thrived. This is the story of the Great Depression in the United States, from the sweeping consequences of the market collapse to the more personal stories of individuals and communities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 FAVNović, Sara
Summary: "True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC NOVMills, Deborah
Summary: Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILCook, Julia
Summary: Wilma Jean worries about everything. She worries about missing the bus, doing a math problem wrong, having friends to play with, and getting carrots in her school lunch. Wilma Jean's teacher helps her figure out what worries she can control and those that she can't and what to do about both types of worries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Center for Youth Issues 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 RINMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: The Garcia's new refrigerator comes in a big box. Carlos and Carmen turn the box into a rocket, then a submarine. Then the twins finally decide to make the box a fort. But it's a crumpled fort. It's a flat fort. Discover how Carlos and Carmen don't let a flattened box ruin their fun!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH MCDCooke, Pan
Summary: "A memoir of living with OCD before and after diagnosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024
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Summary: "An inspirational and heartrending memoir about Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012, written by his sister Ally Breedlove. On Christmas Day 2011, Ben Breedlove's soul went to heaven. But it wasn't his first time there. Ben suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition that posed a constant risk of sudden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013