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Adultery Fiction Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction Illegitimate children Fiction Psychological fiction Puritans Fiction Puritans Massachusetts Fiction Stories in rhyme Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction Women immigrants Fiction Women Massachusetts FictionSummary: Intrigue. Betrayal. Sabotage. And that₂s just Inspector Simon Magellan's home life as a divorced single father raising two teenage daughters! Veteran French actor Jacques Spiesser (Priceless, Captain Marleau) stars as the meticulous homicide detective in the fictional French town of Saignac, an idyllic place loaded with mysteries and secret crimes. The young investigators he works with can be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Readers will be enchanted by the zany delights in this colorful book. This entertaining narrative is sure to charm emerging readers, educating them about the concept of opposites. Readers will learn to identify opposites including big and small, messy and neat, and hot and cold, as they explore Monster Town. Colorful illustrations bring the story to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BUTBaye, Nathalie
Summary: Set during the time of World War I, follows a group of women in rural France who have to run the family farm while their men got shipped off to combat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GUAButler, Nathalie
Summary: Readers will learn about animals and their behaviors in this adorable narrative about man s best friend. Using familiar pets such as cats and goldfish, the text imparts the lessons of early elementary curriculum in a fun and child-friendly way. Charming illustrations complement the text, reinforcing the book s concepts while captivating the attention of young listeners and emerging readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BUTButler, Nathalie
Summary: Learning how to count is fun! This book uses rhymes to motivate children when first learning their numbers. The brightly colored illustrations captivate readers while also providing them with a way to make connections between what they read and what they see. The simple language in this book makes it suitable for both emerging readers and young listeners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BUTButler, Nathalie
Summary: When the weather stops a young boy from going to the beach, he stays home and reads books with his mother and grandmother instead. Even his dog joins in on the fun! With brightly colored illustrations that encourage readers to follow along and join this boy s fun-filled day, this story is sure to excite children about the concept of reading books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BUTBélineau, Nathalie.
Summary: Pięknie ilustrowana kartonikowa książeczka dla dzieci z edukacyjnego cyklu "Obrazki dla maluchów", przedstawia najmłodszym czytelnikom ich pierwsze samodzielne czynności. Na końcu książeczki znalazła się prosta zgadywanka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firma Księgarska Jacek i Krzysztof Olesiejuk "Inwestycje" 2005
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: BOARD POLISH BELAbi-Ezzi, Nathalie
Summary: "In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABICaple, Natalee
Summary: To fufill her adoptive father's dying wish, Miette sets out to meet her mother, the notorious Calamity Jane, and crosses the badlands of the North American West in her quest to find the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPGhent, Natale
Summary: In Ontario, Canada, in 1977, twelve-year-old Nat and his sisters find that owning, training, and caring for a pony they acquired for free makes it easier to cope with the poverty they have faced since their father abandoned them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GHEHernandez, Natalia
Summary: For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if they are found and brought before them it will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HERSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SYLGinzburg, Natalia
Summary: "In a quiet Italian town after World War Two, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is a constant concern to her obsessive, hypochondriac mother. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family, who own the textile factory that dominates the town. Over the course...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GINSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When Abuela comes to visit from Peru, she brings a suitcase full of treasures and her granddaughter learns that home is not just a place, but the love between family no matter the distance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYLSylvester, Natalia
Summary: The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SYLSummary: "This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMBrown, Nathaniel
Summary: After a man is shot while dealing drugs in Tokyo, his spirit journeys through an unfamiliar world and tries to protect his sister, who is working as a stripper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE ENTHawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hester Prynn, a young woman in Puritan Massachusetts, publicly bears the burden of her sin of adultery while her husband secretly exacts his revenge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HawHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Travel back to Boston, Massachusetts as it existed in the 1642 for this classic tale of Puritanical Romance and sin. Meet Hester Prynne, who has a baby from an adulterous affair, and must wear a scarlet A on her dress to represent her shameful act. She refuses to name the father, so her long-lost husband sets out to expose her lover. This classic tale is a must-read for everyone as it explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 1981
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWLachenmeyer, Nathaniel
Summary: A lighthouse keeper carves a wooden merganser duck that may be just a bit too lifelike to share his home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mitten Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LacheHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hephzibah tries to shelter her brother from the evil of Judge Pyncheon in this novel set in Massachusetts.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hester Prynne and her lover feel the effects of sin in Puritan New England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001