Summary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELRey, Margret.
Summary: A little monkey needs to be rescued when he tries to fly a kite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB REY BasketRey, Margret.
Summary: A curious monkey goes to the hospital after swallowing a piece of jigsaw puzzle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1966
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Rey 1966Rey, Margret
Summary: Invites young readers to join Curious George as he gets ready for bed after a busy day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Summary: Pretzel finds that being the longest dachshund in all the world is not enough to win the favor of Greta, the little dachshund from across the street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Rey 1997Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYOlsen, Susan Ulrich.
Summary: A young eagle has great difficulties in his abilities to land properly only to discover that he is nearsighted. His father then devises a way to help Elmer learn to land safely by gathering his friends who then dump sacks of snow on the mountain peaks so that Elmer would feel the cold and know it would be safe for landing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mindset Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social Emo Olsen 2000Ruurs, Margriet.
Summary: Two children have fun camping in the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RUURey, Margret
Summary: Compilation of eight previously published Curious George titles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYRey, Margret
Summary: "Enjoy learning to read with Curious George! The Curious about Phonics learn-to-read program can help your child master the basic phonic skills that are the building blocks for a lifetime"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN REYRey, Margret
Summary: Collects eight Curious George stories following the adventurous little monkey as he visits the fire station, makes a dinosaur discovery, and plants a tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYRey, Margret
Summary: In Margret and H.A. Rey's Pretzel, we met the world's longest dachshund and his wife, Greta. This book picks up where Pretzel left off, after the birth of their five adorable puppies. In collected comic strips, the Reys explore the drama and comedy of life as a family of seven, and what it means to have a daddy who's sometimes as silly as he is long!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYRey, Margret
Summary: Based on the streaming series Pretzel and the Puppies on Apple TV+, this I Can Read follows the pups as they work to make sure the new Bow Wow Tower is accessible for all dogs. Welcome to Muttgomery, the nicest little city in an all-dog world, and home of Pretzel, Greta, and their five adorable Dachshund puppies: Poppy, Penny, Pedro, Puck, and Paxton. Pretzel is a peppy, playful, and always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN REYRey, Margret
Summary: Based on the streaming series Pretzel and the Puppies on Apple TV+, this I Can Read introduces the series' puppy stars as they work together to plan a celebration for the city of Muttgomery. Welcome to Muttgomery, the nicest little city in an all-dog world, and home of Pretzel, Greta, and their five adorable Dachshund puppies: Poppy, Penny, Pedro, Puck, and Paxton. Pretzel is a peppy, playful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN REYRey, Margret
Summary: The adventures of the ingenious little monkey who left the jungle to live with the man in the yellow hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYAldrich, Bess Streeter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aeonian Press 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDAldrich, Bess Streeter
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDAldrich, Bess Streeter
Summary: Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1983
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALDAldrich, Bess Streeter
Summary: "Pulled by literary ambitions in one direction and her heart strings in another, young Laura Deal of Nebraska, tries to ignore her liking for dependable Allan Rinemiller. This tale of the second and third generations of a pioneer family, while perhaps too deliberately patterned gives careful attention to its setting and has a popular appeal through its sentiment, romance and happy ending." N Y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1988
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Summary: "A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a Bundt cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it's time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a tale of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed years ago and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident still holds her in its grasp. Why did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOWeyr, Garret
Summary: Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer, and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie, a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all the other dragons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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Summary: The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSimenon, Georges
Summary: "Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower pace of life. When a woman, who they regularly pass by on their daily strolls, is murdered Maigret can't help but offer his assistance to the local Inspector, a former colleague of Maigret's."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimenon, Georges
Summary: This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute ...A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015