Watanabe, Issa
Summary: The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last the journey is over and the migrants arrive. This is the new place. With forceful simplicity, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals leaving a leafless forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WATSummary: When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on animals, Elle heads to Capitol Hill to fight for her cause before Congress. Once there, she runs into plenty of adversity and red-tape and can't seem to find anyone who will listen to her proposals. She meets and befriends an elderly bellman who's been around long enough to know the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LEGCrawford, Isis
Summary: "It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family -- though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which happened within hours of each other -- and were both ruled accidental. Ada thinks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CRASassy, Inc
Summary: "From cow to train to ball, baby will learn first words with this big, bright book."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "A luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of "the Blue People of Kentucky" that probes questions of identity, love, and family. In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio-a writer and photographer-are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MORCrawford, Isis
Summary: "If anything can be said about the endearingly predictable Margo Hemsley, it's that she always serves elaborate desserts at her mystery book club meetings. That's why everyone fears the worst after she doesn't pick up her order from Bernie and Libby and skips out on the monthly gathering. The Simmons sisters can't imagine their acquaintance vanishing like a character from one of her favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CRACrawford, Isis
Summary: Ellen's children forget her birthday and her husband forgets their anniversary, but her Mother's Day could not be more surprising as she finds herself in a hotel with a dead body.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Crawford 2016Mackenzie, Jassy
Summary: "Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie's new, pulse-pounding thriller. Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigator Jade de Jong is attempting to operate on the right side of the law, confining herself to low-profile cases. But her remarkably attractive new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMackenzie, Jassy
Summary: "Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie's new, pulse-pounding thriller. Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigator Jade de Jong is attempting to operate on the right side of the law, confining herself to low-profile cases. But her remarkably attractive new...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACJackson, Easy
Summary: "When mail-order bride Tennessee Smith's husband drops dead on their wedding night, she'll do whatever it takes to save his ranch and raise his three boys, ages thirteen, ten, and six--even become marshal of the lawless Ring Bit, Texas, which is now her home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Western Jackson 2019Van Meter, Crissy
Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANRissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISLil Miss Hot Mess
Summary: Drag queens sing verses of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their fabulousness by singing, posing, and twirling along.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HATCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HATLil Miss Hot Mess
Summary: "The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of the nationally recognized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), this playful picture book offers a quirky twist on a classic nursery rhyme by illustrating all of the ways to "work it". The story plays off "The Wheels on the Bus" as it follows a drag queen who performs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILKeating, Jess
Summary: "Someone who goes by the name of "V" is planning to unleash a lethal virus that could destroy the human race, and it is up to Nikki Tesla and her friends from the Genius Academy (which has been blamed for an international incident and shut down), to uncover the villain (who is closer to them than they realize) and find a way to stop the biological attack--an effort that will cost Nikki her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: "When Goldie Blox lets down her BFF Ruby Rails, she is determined to make it up by throwing her friend the best birthday bash ever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MCAHarrison, Michelle
Summary: The family curse has been lifted, and the Widdershins sisters--Betty, Fliss, and Charlie--are free to leave the misty prison isle of Crowstone. But when a girl arrives asking for help, they embark on another adventure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HARDeen, Natasha
Summary: "When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DEEHarris, Neil Patrick
Summary: "Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: "When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: Uni cares for a chrysalis and wants to keep it as a pet, but when the butterfly emerges, she learns some animals are meant to be wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: "In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner... These women in the club... These women who won't stop asking questions... These women who got what they deserved... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POCCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M POCTaplin, Sam
Summary: Are you there little bee? Children will love peeking through the holes in this beautifully illustrated book in search of the elusive little bee. -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC 2021