Summary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARRoss, Aleksandra
Summary: A fantasy about a dark forest besieged by monsters--and the wild queen who has sworn to drive them out. A fierce young queen, neither human nor lynx, who fights to protect a forest humans have long abandoned. An exhausted young soldier, last of his name, who searches for the brother who disappeared beneath those trees without a trace. A Golden Dragon, fearsome and vengeful, whose wingbeats...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: The murder of Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch triggers ethnic and political tensions in early twentieth-century Chicago, an event that is investigated a century later by a young writer from Eastern Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "A novel about an aspiring screenplay writer--full of script ideas but unable to follow through on any of them--who becomes entangled with a Bosnian woman and her violently jealous husband"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Contents: Islands -- The life and work of Alphonse Kauders -- The Sorge spy ring -- The accordion -- Exchange of pleasant words -- A coin -- Blind Josef Pronek & dead souls -- Imitation of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMMotyka, Aleksandra
Summary: "Geralt is summoned by an old acquaintance to help solve a mystery involving his daughter. Geralt soon discovers that the situation at hand, in which he believes to be helping with, only leads to more trouble for the witcher and results in all signs pointing towards him as the prime suspect"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MOTAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALEAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: Ava Gabriela is excited to celebrate the New Year with her extended family in Colombia, but being around her loud relatives in an unfamiliar place makes her shy and quiet. Includes author's note and glossary of Spanish words.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "To save their father's life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of magical beings from Colombian folklore and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all--the Madremonte"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIPreziosi, Alessandra
Summary: Spending a summer day at their local pool, George helps his friend Lucy learn to swim, despite her fears.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE CURPreziosi, Alessandra
Summary: Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat describe everything they love about each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: BOARD PRERequena, Alessandra
Summary: "It is a perfect day of sun, splashing, and swimming in the sparkling blue pool... until my brother needs a poop. But can we get him to the toilet on time?"--Page 2 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REQTorre, Alessandra
Summary: Four years ago, I lied. I stood in front of the police, my friends and family, and made up a story, my best one yet. And all of them believed me. I wasn't surprised. Telling stories is what made me famous. Fifteen bestsellers. Millions of fans. Fame and fortune. Now, I have one last story to write. It'll be my best one yet, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave them stunned and gasping for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alessandra Torre 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TORBaisho, Chieko.
Summary: A young woman named Sophie flees to the moving castle of a notorious wizard named Howl after she is cursed to look old beyond her years; while at the castle she falls in love with Howl who can see Sophie's true self despite the curse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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Summary: In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
Summary: Annotation 'Blest who betimes has left life's revel, whose wine-filled glass he has not drained'Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersberg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to the country estate he has recently inherited. With the arrival of the idealistic young poet Vladimir Lendsky he begins an unlikely friendship, while the poet welcomes this urbane addition to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSChute, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUSolzhenit͡s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLBaricco, Alessandro
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: "When the kingdom's most wanted and charming bandit, Flynn Rider, hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with seventy feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower she's been locked in for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief, and the unlikely duo sets off on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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Summary: "When the kingdom's most wanted and charming bandit, Flynn Rider, hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with seventy feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower she's been locked in for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief, and the unlikely duo sets off on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the Toy Story motion picture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021