Yi, Kŭm-i

Summary: "'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YI

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Summary: An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Yi, Kŭm-i

Summary: "Two women's lives and identities are intertwined-through World War II and the Korean War-revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. "Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories." -Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author Can't I Go Instead follows...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge/Tor Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YI

Broder, Melissa

Summary: "Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Brodner, Terry

Summary: The Secret Life of Pets meets Amelia Bedelia in this witty and sweet debut picture book about an overly-literal pup trying his paw at several different jobs and the hilarious mishaps that ensue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRO

Brouwer, Sigmund

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008

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Brouwer, Sigmund

Summary: Sam Keaton is not shocked by the death of the town drunk, but he is shocked by the unusual amount of interest others are showing in the man's death, and when a wealthy woman from the East asks for Sam's help in investigate the death, he readily agrees.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2001

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Broder, Robert

Summary: Being a scarecrow can be lonely. Spending his day keeping birds away doesn't leave Crow with many options for friends. Then one snowy day, the children on the farm build a snowman. Crow and Snow are fast friends and winter passes happily in each other's company. Then Snow goes away. Crow misses his friend and thinks of Snow during the warm seasons until they can be reunited again. Being apart...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020

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Brouwer, Sigmund

Summary: "In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, 11-year-old Charlie tries his hardest to keep his life quiet and organized amid the chaos of life on the farm with his veterinarian mother."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021

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Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRE

Brouwer, Sigmund

Summary: In a future world where the fundamentalist government distorts true Christianity, a winged girl named Caitlyn escapes to the Outside but soon finds herself on the run again from an organization seeking her body's genetic information.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010

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Brouwer, Sigmund

Summary: "This WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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Brouwer, Sigmund

Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRO