Crowley, John
Summary: Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOLSummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STAGoing, K. L. (Kelly L.)
Summary: When his human family goes to the store, Dog is left in charge of five wiley cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOI BASKETGoing, K. L. (Kelly L.)
Summary: When his human family goes to the store, Dog is left in charge of five wily cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOIGreen, K. C. (Kenneth Cary)
Summary: The first collection of the all-ages comic sensation based on the Cartoon Network animated series. A monster living under the park that lives off of unruly energy?! Arm Wrestling training? Mordecai and Rigby are always up to something.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KaBOOM!, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Head outside and explore because it's a beautiful day in the Neighborhood! While spending the day outside with his family, Daniel spots a beautiful red bird. When the bird's nest falls out of the tree, will Daniel and Katerina be able to help?
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EXPSummary: When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan on a mission that will determine the fate of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR RATED PGKelly, Mark E.
Summary: El astronauta Mark Kelly voló con "ratonautas" en su primer vuelo espacial a bordo del transbordador Endeavour en 2001. Ratonauta cuenta la historia de un ratoncito que lo que más quiere es viajar al espacio exterior. El ratoncito trabaja tan duro como los ratones más grandes para mostrar que está listo para la misión...¡y es escogido para el vuelo! Mientras están en el espacio, los astronautas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH KELSummary: A lavish period drama set in Atlantic City, following the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed political and criminal mastermind whose grip on power and control of the city's liquor supply is under constant threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BOA RATED RGarrett, Kellye
Summary: In this "tense, twisting mystery" (Megan Miranda), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead--except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth. "I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. I found out she'd died from the New York Daily News." When the body of disgraced reality TV star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARMalley, Gemma.
Summary: It's the year 2140 and Anna shouldn't be alive. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of kids like her, kids whose parents chose to recklessly abuse Mother Nature and have children despite a law forbidding them from doing so as long as they took longevity drugs. To pay back her parents' debt to Mother Nature, Anna will have to work for the rest of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Childrens 2011
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Salley, Coleen.
Summary: In this variation on the folktale, Sody Salyraytus, each of Epossumondas's birthday guests disappears until it is finally up to him to rescue them all and bring home the "sody" for his birthday biscuits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SALTilley, Jim
Summary: "Against the Wind is a story of six characters' second chances to make things right. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TILSummary: Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOLKelly, Mark E.
Summary: A small, but plucky, mouse named Mike is sure that he can help the Space Shuttle astronauts, and ends up saving the whole mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2012
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Fig enrolls in an art class to better understand her father, a composer and pianist whose mental illness she tries to conceal from classmates, neighbors, and social services.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MELSutton, Halley
Summary: Hollywood is a sickness. Few people understand this better than Salma Lowe, progeny of Hollywood royalty and a former child-star turned guide of the Stars Six Feet Under tour bus. Salma spends her days leading tourists around the star-studded avenues of Hollywood, pointing out where actresses have met spectacular or untimely ends. Salma knows better than anyone that a tragic death is the surest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SUTKepler, Lars
Summary: Ten little rabbits, all dressed in white tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite. Kite string got broken, down they all fell, Instead of going to heaven, they all went to... It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die. A masked stranger stands in the shadows. He watches his victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make him pay. Soon the Rabbit Hunter has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEPDealey, Erin
Summary: The Christmas boat parade is underway and Santa and his reindeer run astray until a surprise helps to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DEAGulley, Philip
Summary: "Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (with the exception of a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. But before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources put the quietus on the plan. A colony of endangered Indiana bats have made the tree beside the meetinghouse, and the meetinghouse attic, their place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GULSalley, Coleen.
Summary: Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup-garou.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SALCulley, Betty
Summary: Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CULMcKinney, Kelsey
Summary: "A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community-a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCKSeeley, Tim.
Summary: The horror "heroes" of Chaos! Comics are back! The undead Evil Ernie, goddess Purgatori, vampire Chastity, and supernatural band of misfits known as The Omen have individually witnessed visions of the world's impending doom, and rush headlong into conflict. Some try desperately to avert the holocaust, out of altruism or self-interest, while others just want to raise some hell. So begins the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamite Entertainment 2015