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Africans United States Fiction Africans United States Juvenile fiction Children of immigrants Juvenile fiction Circus animals Fiction Death Juvenile fiction Immigrants Fiction Jews Germany History 1933-1945 Juvenile fiction Muslims United States Fiction Shipwrecks Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Juvenile fictionSummary: Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADAUslan, Michael
Summary: For nearly 70 years, the eternal love triangle has been the bane of Archie's existence - and of fans who have wondered, 'Who will Archie choose, Betty or Veronica?' This year, the fans received an answer, not once, but twice! First came the announcement that Archie would marry Veronica, and the reaction was deafening! While some fans rejoiced, others were stunned. But just as it seemed Archie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comics 2010
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Hole, Stian.
Summary: As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLZusak, Markus
Summary: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZUSZusak, Markus.
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC ZUSPamuk, Orhan.
Summary: Never before published in English, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980. In a crumbling mansion in Cennethisar (formerly a fishing village, now a posh resort near Istanbul) the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Nuurali, Siman
Summary: A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUURim, Sujean
Summary: Bob the bird keeps trying to fly, but is beginning to worry that he will never succeed when Crow comes by with a suggestion to "just breathe."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMNuurali, Siman
Summary: Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUZusak, Markus.
Summary: It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2007
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Zusak, Markus.
Summary: Meet Ed Kennedy--underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he's hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first Ace arrives. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. . . Chosen to care,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2007
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Zusak, Markus.
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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We have 4 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Summary: A multi-story romantic comedy about the people who work on weddings to create the perfect day for a loving couple - while their own relationships are outlandish, odd, crazy and far from perfect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Saban Films 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVNuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUVan Dusen, Chris
Summary: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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We have 3 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Summary: During one of Bonnie's post-Christmas playdates, the Toy Story crew find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. It's all up to Trixie, the triceratops, if the gang hopes to ever return to Bonnie's room.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney / Pixar 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOYSteinhauer, Olen
Summary: "Reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver thought he had finally put 'Tourists' - CIA-trained assassins - to bed. A decade later, Milo is hiding out in Western Sahara when a young CIA analyst arrives to question him about a series of suspicious deaths and terrorist chatter linked to him. Their conversation is soon interrupted by a new breed of Tourists intent on killing them both, forcing them to run....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STESloan, Robin
Summary: A software engineer is left a sourdough starter from sibling bakers after they're forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute, and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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We have 3 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Kearsley, Susanna.
Summary: History has all but forgotten... In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2010
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Suen, Anastasia.
Summary: A family helps build their new house.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SUEGhahremani, Susie
Summary: Cats of all shapes and sizes scamper, yawn, and stretch across the pages of this playful counting book. And every now and then, some of them pile into the purrfect cat stack!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GHAYang, Susie
Summary: Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar--but you'd never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, she is taught how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops by her immigrant grandmother. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen--and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANSloan, Robin
Summary: After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOKearsley, Susanna.
Summary: Two Women. One Mysterious Relic. Separated By Centuries. Nicola Marter was born with a gift so rare and dangerous, she kept it buried deep. When she encounters a desperate woman trying to sell a small wooden carving called "The Firebird," claiming it belonged to Russia's Empress Catherine, it's a problem. There's no proof. But Nicola's held the object. She knows the woman is telling the truth....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2013