Jiles, Paulette
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILSpringer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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Summary: Hank can't wait to go on his class field trip to the zoo. But the trip soon turns into a nightmare when Hank gets lost! Where is his class? By the baboons? Near the elephants? The trip turns into a wild adventure that Hank will never forget.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WINPerez Marquez, Barbara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Paulina is delivering bread to her new friend Fabia's home when Mount Vesuvius begins erupting, but when Fabia's father leaves to help fellow Pompeii residents evacuate, the girls make their way through the city, helping others where they can. Includes facts about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAR (GRAPHIC NOVELL)Yomtov, Nelson
Summary: "Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape. Readers will discover a powerful story of human courage and mankind's fierce will to live."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 YOMAaron, Jason
Summary: In an attack on a factory on Cymoon 1, the rebels discover innocent slave workers who they must help escape before the factory is destroyed by explosives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO/Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AARDay, Alexandra.
Summary: When her parents leave her with a babysitter, Madeleine sneaks outside to play with Carl, their Rottweiler, on a snowy afternoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAYSummary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KITAaron, Jason
Summary: As the rebels try to escape from Cymoon 1, Darth Vader arrives and they must fight their way out using the Empire's vehicles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO/Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AARAaron, Jason
Summary: Although the rebels successfully completed their mission on Cymoon 1, Luke Skywalker now recognizes the power of the Force and realizes he has much more to learn before becoming a true Jedi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO/Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AARMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal, an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF MANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MANHale, Bruce
Summary: While on a field trip to the farmers' market, Clark becomes separated from his classmates and must use his rhyming skills to help him remember his teacher's instructions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HALAaron, Jason
Summary: After being discovered by the bounty hunter sent by Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker is blinded by a flash grenade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO/Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AARAaron, Jason
Summary: After defeating the Empire's greatest weapon, the Death Star, Luke Skywalker and the other rebels launch an offensive throughout space hoping to bring freedom to the galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO/Spotlight 2017
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Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIWolfram, Amy
Summary: In the first of two graphic novels, Robin devises an obstacle course that favors his skills because he keeps coming in second in the Titans' daily activities; in the second story the super teens are engaged in a tense game of Go Fish, only to be interrupted when the Hive-Five invade the Tower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone Press 2019
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Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIAaron, Jason
Summary: As Luke Skywalker returns home to Tatooine in a search for answers about his destiny, Darth Vader hires a bounty hunter to find the pilot who destroyed the Death Star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO/Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AARThao, Dustin
Summary: Julie Clarke, de diecisiete años, tiene todo su futuro planeado: marcharse de su pequeño pueblo junto a su novio, Sam, ir a la universidad en la ciudad, pasar un verano en Japón. Pero entonces Sam muere. Y todo cambia. Desesperada por escucharle una vez más, Julie llama al móvil de Sam para escuchar la grabación de su buzón de voz. Y Sam coge el teléfono.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones Kiwiw 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH THAThomas, Jodi
Summary: "A small-town Texas Christmas story, where hearts are lost, love is found, and family always brings you back home. Griffin Holloway is desperate: the Maverick Ranch has been in his family for generations, but lately, it's a money pit. He'd sooner marry one of his horses than sell the ranch. Marriage, though, could be a solution. If he can woo a wealthy bride, he might save the ranch -- just in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOClanton, Ben
Summary: "Narwhal's obsession with his new favorite food leads him into hijinks and hilarity in the third book of this all-star early graphic novel series! Narwhal and Jelly are back and Narwhal has a new obsession... peanut butter! He's so obsessed he even wants to change his name to... that's right... Peanut Butter! Ever-sensible Jelly isn't so sure that's the best idea, but is all for Narwhal trying...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2018
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Summary: "Nintendo and Mario Kart fans ages 5-8 will love to meet Mario, Luigi, and all their friends and foes in this Step 3 Step into Reading level reader as they compete and race to win!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "Texas Ranger John Ringold rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission - to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder. Ringo tackles the desperate job of running down the night-riding bandits, headed by the mysterious robber chieftan "Saguro," only to find himself hurled into a head-on confrontation with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARFoxe, Steve
Summary: "Mr. Kazarian, the school librarian, is actually an extraterrestrial (with a holographic disguise) studying the behavior of human children, and if he wants to continue his research he will have to find a way to convince the four students who have discovered his secret not to expose him--perhaps by helping their assignment on gas giants with a quick trip to Jupiter."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone Imprint 2020