Zyzak, Magdalena
Summary: "One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBazay, Casie
Summary: Estranged cousins K. J. and Becka must complete their deceased grandfather's strange bucket list in order to earn the inheritance they both need, but Grandpa's real motive makes it a challenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAZBehar, Ruth
Summary: In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEHZyzak, Magdalena.
Summary: Possessing romantic delusions of grandeur and desperate to attract a voluptuous Gypsy concubine, a smitten young swineherd from a fictional backward country rides his short-legged steed through a series of scandals and misadventures marked by an eccentric cast of characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZYZByler, Linda
Summary: "Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. As the local Amish community begins to thrive, a terrible drought and a windmill fire devastate their business and the community. Hannah must choose whether to stay in North Dakota or move back to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with the other Amish families that are leaving"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: Sadie Miller is forced to leave behind the horse she loves when her family moves from Ohio to Montana, but after she settles in and begins to enjoy her new job at Aspen East Ranch, serving the ranch hands, Sadie forms a bond with Ezra, a man who seems perfect and has intentions to propose marriage, though her heart may be won by Mark, a fascinating English man who helps rescue a dying horse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BYLBehar, Ruth
Summary: In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEHLazar, Tara
Summary: When upper case letters disappear from Capital City, Question Mark calls on Private I to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAZLazar, Zachary
Summary: "Tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York ... He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods ... In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before the world she knew disappeared. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAZBehar, Ruth
Summary: "Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEHBehar, Ruth
Summary: "La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEHBehar, Ruth
Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEHByler, Linda
Summary: Hester, the Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She shares a house with Bappie King, another Amish woman, living their independent lives in the fast-growing mid-18th-century city. Bappie runs a highly successful stand at the downtown farmers market; Hester is Bappie's assistant when she isn't out in the city nursing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2016
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Summary: Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is finally feeling settled. The cattle business is doing well, and other Amish families have moved into the area. Feeling betrayed by Clay Jenkins and unimpressed with her own father, Hannah is hesitant to trust the men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Sadie and her new husband, Mark, face danger when FBI agents warn them that Sadie's horse is extremely valuable and could be the target of some violent horse thieves, as Sadie also contends with Mark's unexpected black moods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2012
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Summary: As the spirit of the Christmas season approaches in an Amish community, little Isaac aims to fix up his shy brother, Simon, with his teacher, Catherine, whom Simon as been pining after.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYLLazar, Alexandra
Summary: Princess Jasmine is determined to learn more about the world outside the palace where she lives, and even after her efforts almost end in disaster, she keeps trying to find out more about the kingdom she will one day rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAZLazar, Tara
Summary: When 7 is accused of eating 9, worried 6 hires a detective to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LazAymar, E. A.
Summary: When their estranged brother, jazz musician and social activist Markus Peña, is found murdered, sisters Melinda and Emily Peña seek to unravel the truth, but must first face their own demons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AYMLazar, Ralph
Summary: Dash Candoo's Monday is filled with adventure--during breakfast battling scallywags and the Devil Cat and then at school, confronted with Total Mayhem Situations involving an assortment of missing objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages! It's the most amazing day on earth: the first day of school! It can be a daunting prospect, but don't worry - your big brother can show you the ropes. Join a nervous boy and his enthusiastic older brother as they navigate the highs and lows of a first day at school . . . except this school is a big top, and the teacher is named Miss Stupendous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAZLazar, Tara.
Summary: Little Red is an excellent ice skater, but she will need a good partner for the skating pairs competition and the only one available is a certain Wolf, who needs new skates as badly as Little Red does.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAZLazar, Ralph
Summary: "Dash and his friends Rob and Greta are used to unusual things happening at their school, Swedhump Elementary. But even they pay attention when their invisible principal, Mrs. Rosebank, announces that they have a special guest: Ms. Aqualine, the owner of the new Aqualina Water Park. Most elementary students don't get to spend time on waterslides during the school day. But soon Dash, Rob, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: Dash Candoo is used to really strange, mysterious things happening at his school. But now, really, really, really strange and mysterious things are happening. Dash starts to wonder what's going on when mysterious tire marks and strange sounds start coming from Moremi Forest, next to Swedhump Elementary. When he and his friend Rob go to investigate, they can't work out what's going on. All they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021