Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, PhD graduate Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. When their father, Mr. Luong, summons them home for his American citizenship party, Van and Linny find themselves communing about their past, their late mother, their father's obsession with his Luong Arm invention for short people, even the irony of their romantic straits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUCarrier, Roch.
Summary: With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARWurster, Erich
Summary: Bob Patterson considers himself an Everyman--albeit an Everyman with a rich, beautiful wife, two good kids, and a mail-it-in job that ignores his law degree. Despite his good fortune, Bob is idling through life, bored at work and at home. In short, he is the proverbial Coaster. Bob's wife, Sarah, is the anointed heir to the empire built by her father, Sam, a kind of Kansas City, Missouri,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WURGreen, Rico
Summary: Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos are the offspring of some of the most terrible villains of all time. They're offered a chance to leave the Isle of the Lost, where they have been imprisoned all their lives, and go to prep school in the idyllic kingdom of Auradon with all of the "good" kids. There, they must choose whether or not to follow in their parents' evil footsteps. Watch out Auradon--here come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Book Group 2015
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Green, Rico
Summary: "When four offspring of classic Disney villains are offered a chance to leave the island where they have been imprisoned and go to prep school in an idyllic kingdom, they must choose whether or not to follow in their parents' evil footsteps" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREGreen, Rico
Summary: Introduces characters from Disney's newest motion picture, Zootopia, in a city of anthropomorphic animals, a fugitive fox con artist and a rookie rabbit cop must work together to uncover a conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Summary: Devlin Judge, an American lawyer in Europe as part of the International Military Tribunal to try Nazi war criminals. Haunted by his own demons, Judge has a secret agenda-- to find the Nazi responsible for his brother's death. Determined to avenge his brother and bring his killer to justice, Judge is plunged into pursuit, menaced at every turn by forces determined to keep him from his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIMoyer, Rich
Summary: While being snowed in at the old Helsing manor, Ham has his hands full trying to keep his friends safe from his very much alive legendary monster hunter dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2023
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Summary: A bathtub, who is just as terrified of bath time as the little girl who bathes in him, offers suggestions on how to make the experience better for both of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: Craig and Eliza, two underpaid angels in the Department of Miracles, try to stop God, the CEO of Heaven, Inc., from destroying Earth by striking a deal with him to get the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICWallace, Rich
Summary: When Stu gets lost in the woods just as night closes in, he know he should just sit still and wait for morning because there is a flooded quarry nearby--but when he hears a boy calling for help he follows the sound, ignoring the dog that is trying to steer him in the opposite direction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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Summary: Seventh-grader Torry is feeling pressure on the basketball court because he has to guard a player on the rival team who is bigger and older than he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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Summary: A raccoon and skunk pass other nocturnal animals as they head to a corn field to forage for food until a surprise causes them to scurry home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Muddy Boots 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LORich, Roberta
Summary: "A sweeping, New York-set historical novel following a Jewish cigarette girl who moonlights as a spy and attempts to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RICWallace, Rich
Summary: Stu and his friend Dan are hiking in the forest when a rainstorm leads them to seek shelter in a haunted hunting cabin, which suddenly bursts into flames in the middle of the night. The boys escape with their lives, but when Stu returns in the day he finds the cabin apparently untouched by fire, but in the possession of a ghost that clearly does not want company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WALStower, Adam
Summary: Lily learns that kitties can be almost as much trouble as dogs--but they can also be very comforting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Stower 2012Segal, Erich
Summary: The love between wealthy Oliver Barrett IV and working-class beauty Jenny Cavilleri allows them to overcome their differences, but cannot help them when tragedy strikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGRich, Nathaniel
Summary: New Orleans, a century ago: a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nation's. Downtown, a new American music is born. In Storyville, prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans's faded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICShapero, Rich.
Summary: "After graduating from college, Sam Altman finds himself disillusioned with the world of the '60s and rejects normal life to follow an inner calling. Altman's unleashed--and increasingly unhinged--imagination takes him first to Seattle and then farther north, to the remote Alaskan wilderness. Sam has fallen deeply in love with the mysterious and powerful Lindy, a young woman who will do...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Too Far 2005
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Summary: Ally, who thinks she is a dinosaur, and her friends must learn to deal with a new girl who wants everyone to play by her rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TORTorrey, Rich.
Summary: Almost six-year-old Jack lists all the ways in which he is almost a grown-up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TORWallace, Rich
Summary: It is track season and seventh-grader Marcus is struggling at the 400 meter distance and upset that his best friend Torry jokes about his slow times--so he is determined to build up enough strength to earn a place on the 4x400 meter relay at the upcoming track and field meet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016