Rosen, Sybil
Summary: Renata and her father halt work on their new bathroom when a pair of wrens builds a nest over the bathtub, allowing Renata to see their chicks hatch and begin to fly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSSummary: A thriller about a woman fighting off a sleazy blackmailer. The film was Hitchcock's first full-length sound film and was only his second foray into the suspense genre. Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defense when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber, covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF BLABedford, Sybille
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEDMarks, Janae
Summary: Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARCacao, Joanna
Summary: Twin siblings Elliot and Liza only have each other. Their parents are gone. Their home was taken, and to survive on their own, they're forced to scrounge up plastic and metal to trade for coin within an abandoned garbage heap. Desperate to escape the vagabond cycle that they're trapped in, the answer to their plight seemingly appears when they stumble upon a Raven Quest--magical tasks offered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC CAC (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Shaykh, Hanan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACandau, Brittany.
Summary: Peter Parker continues to adjust to his ever-changing life of family, friends, and being the Super Hero wall-crawler known as the amazing Spider-Man. Since gaining great power and great responsibility, Spidey has fought crime all over the city day in and day out and it's taken its toll on Peter's life. Gwen has moved on from their relationship. His old friend Harry Osborn has returned and plans...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Book Group 2014
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Canin, Ethan.
Summary: "Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph.D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CANCañas, Isabel
Summary: "Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANJames, Syrie.
Summary: Discovering a letter written by Jane Austen inside of an old book, Samantha investigates the letter's suggestions about a possible undiscovered manuscript and searches the historical home of handsome Anthony Whitaker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMMakiya, Kanan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKPorter, Chana
Summary: "In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORS-Cynan
Summary: "Jaehwan has demonstrated both his power and shrewdness for all to see, but the tournament is not over yet! This time, it's his character that will be put to the test to determine whether he is fit to lead the Abyss Expedition. However, it's immediately obvious that he is being set up to fail with an age-old dilemma--sacrifice the few to save the many, or risk losing everything to save the few?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ize Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WORSteil, Jennifer
Summary: "An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECanin, Ethan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCañas, Isabel
Summary: "As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters--her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANIshida, Sanae
Summary: "Take a peek into the lives of sumo wrestlers in this adorable book about colors! Simple, charming scenes with sumo wrestlers help young readers learn different colors, such as red, orange, blue, and black. The Japanese word that corresponds to the English word for each color is included."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ISHLanan, Jessica
Summary: A wordless picture book in which a fisherman finds a whale caught in fishing nets and sets it free. Includes author's note about the environmental impact of contemporary commercial fishing practices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LANCanin, Ethan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANSteil, Jennifer.
Summary: From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEYapa, Sunil
Summary: Follows seven different people, including a marijuana dealer and his estranged police chief father, who have their lives altered one afternoon in Seattle during the WTO protests that tried to shut the city down in 1999.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAPBhathena, Tanaz
Summary: Trained in warrior magic after the murder of her parents, a girl with a star-shaped birthmark is prophesied to be the downfall of a tyrant king, but the boy she falls in love with owes his loyalty to those hunting her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BHABhathena, Tanaz
Summary: "Gul and Cavas must unite their magical forces--and hold onto their growing romance--to save their kingdom from tyranny"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BHATigay, Chanan
Summary: In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira-archaeological treasure hunter and denizen of Jerusalem's bustling marketplace-arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world's oldest Bible scroll. When news of the discovery leaked to the excited English press, Shapira became a household name. But before the British Museum could acquire them, Shapira's nemesis, French...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016