Summary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISBurrowes, Grace
Summary: Noah Winters, Duke of Anselm, exercises the pragmatism for which he's infamous when his preferred choice of bride cries off, and her companion, Lady Thea Collins, becomes his next choice for his duchess. Lady Thea's mature, sensible and even rather attractive-what could possibly go wrong? As a lady fallen on hard times, Thea doesn't expect tender sentiments from His Grace, but she does wish...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2015
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Barrows, Annie.
Summary: Bean's older sister, Nancy, is going to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp and Bean can't go. So Bean and Ivy make their own camp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARBarrows, Annie.
Summary: When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend Ivy to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BarCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Ivy BarrowsBurrowes, Grace
Summary: Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned's connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady's maid who has disappeared. Rosalind is too opinionated--and too intelligent--and has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURBurrowes, Grace.
Summary: "Gayle Windham, Earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the Duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper... Anna Seaton is a beautiful, talented, educated woman, which is why it is so puzzling to Gayle Windham...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurrowes, Grace.
Summary: All is fair in love and court... Dunstan Cromarty is practicing law far from his native Scotland, and battles his personal loneliness with professional zeal . On a lucrative and fractious divorce case, he meets his match in a sharp-witted and stunningly beautiful adversary ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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Burrowes, Grace.
Summary: An earl who can't be bribed... Gayle Windham, earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper... A lady who can't be protected... Anna Seaton is a beautiful, talented,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2010
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Burrowes, Grace.
Summary: A Regency era battle of wits, wills, and the sexes, with a wily old duke determined to see the succession of his line secured, and his three headstrong sons equally determined to resist the bonds of matrimony. THE HEIR: The Earl of Wyndham, weighed down by responsibilities, is determined to avoid the summer rounds of matchmaking mamas, so he stays in his London townhouse for the summer. There...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012
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Burrowes, Grace
Summary: Named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2012 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes keeps winning reader awards for her gorgeously imagined books. If you're already a fan, you'll devour her new characters and if you haven't yet discovered the richly drawn worlds of Grace Burrowes, you're in for a treat....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012
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Burrowes, Grace
Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers another passionate Regency romance... He left his bride to go to war... After years of soldiering, Michael Brodie returns to his Highland estate to find that the bride he left behind has become a stranger. Brenna is self-sufficient, competent, confident-and furious about Michael's prolonged absence. Now his most important...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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Burrowes, Grace.
Summary: Forced to marry for money to save the family estate, the Earl of Balfour devises a strategy to win the heart of Genie Daniels, a rich English heiress, until he meets her poor cousin Augusta, forcing him to choose between family duty and love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURBarrows, Annie
Summary: Welcome to the wonderful world of Iggy, where the motto is: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Iggy is not a bad kid - he's really not. Okay, so he's done a few bad things. And okay, he's not very sorry about most of them. No one got hurt! Except for that one time when the Best Idea Ever turned into the Worst Idea of All Time. Iggy is really, really, really sorry he did that. "What did he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARBarrows, Annie
Summary: Little John Marco is a keen observer of his world, but nobody--not his big brothers and sisters, not his parents, or his neighbors--listens to him; and only the fat orange cat in the front yard agrees with him that the tree in the yard is falling down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBarrows, Annie.
Summary: Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BarCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Ivy BarrowsBarrows, Annie.
Summary: When all the second grade students must enter the science fair, which has global warming as its theme, best friends Ivy and Bean team up to create an unusual project.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Ivy BarrowsBurroway, Janet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBarrows, Annie
Summary: After meeting Herman the Treasure Hunter during a career fair at Emerson School, every second-grader is looking for treasure and finding it--except for Ivy and Bean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARBarrows, Annie.
Summary: Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Ivy BarrowsBarrows, Annie.
Summary: Seven-year-old Bean is too young to go to the camp her sister Nancy is attending, so she and her best friend Ivy decide to create their own camp.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE IVYBarrows, Annie.
Summary: After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator--and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD Fiction Barrows 2013Barrows, Annie.
Summary: Watch out, you diabolical masterminds! There's a new detective on Pancake Court: Bean! She laughs at danger! She solves even the most mysterious mysteries! What? There aren't any mysteries? Then Bean and her assistant, Ivy, will make some!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Barrows, Annie.
Summary: "Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Barrows 2015Meyok, Rosemarie
Summary: "In this adorable book to be shared with babies and toddlers, mothers explore their love for their babies as experienced through the five senses. From the sound of a baby's giggles to the smell of a kunik, this book celebrates the unique bonds shared between mothers and babies."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2021