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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvino, Italo.
Summary: In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
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Summary: Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvino, Italo.
Contents: Under the jaguar sun -- A king listens -- The name, the nose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCalvino, Italo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALSummary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSummary: A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TREColandro, Lucille
Summary: Presents a retelling of the classic tale in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a turkey, a balloon, a horn of plenty, and other items associated with Thanksgiving Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COLColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, a woman swallows the alphabet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COLColandro, Lucille.
Summary: A twist on the classic tale of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" takes the story even further as the lady goes about swallowing a variety of items related to school, including books, a ruler, and chalk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COL BASKETPerkins, Mitali
Summary: When María, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, María must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE PERPerkins, Mitali
Summary: From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, an astronaut swallows the Moon and other celestial objects, while two children ask questions about the Solar System and outer space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG COLColandro, Lucille.
Summary: A twist on the classic tale of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" takes the story even further as the lady goes about swallowing up a variety of objects, starting with layers of snow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION ColandroColandro, Lucille.
Summary: "You won't believe why this old lady swallowed a clover, a daisy, a butterfly, a bird, a pot, some gold, and a fiddle"-- Cover verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books/Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COL BASKETItami, Emily
Summary: Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ITACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITAItani, Frances
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITATallo, Katie
Summary: "After moving back to her hometown and solving her mother's murder, Augusta (Gus) Monet thought she was finally settled. Content for the first time in her life. Done with digging into the past. But it's not to be. Cue hard reset number whatever. When Gus makes a mistake she can't undo, she does the only thing she can: cuts and runs. Packs all her things in the dead of night and takes off. Gus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALColandro, Lucille
Summary: "The Old Lady is back for a fall adventure--now in our bestselling reader format!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN COLColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, a woman swallows a worm, some dirt, and a flower in order to throw a picnic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLColandro, Lucille.
Summary: Presents a variation on the classic rhyme about an old lady who swallowed a chick and a lot of other strange creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COLKinoshita, Itaru
Summary: Dino on the loose. Suma Suzume is getting ready for her first winter as a dinokeeper at the struggling Enoshima Dinoland, but she's got more to deal with than just keeping dinosaurs warm and cozy. When a report comes in that a Velociraptor is roaming the streets of Japan, Suzume and her coworker Kaido are sent to help! Can they bring the raptor back unharmed?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment, Inc. 2024
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Summary: Dinosaurs are alive! In 1946, a remote island was discovered where dinosaurs never went extinct. Through breeding and genetic manipulation, dinosaur populations increased and dino-mania reached a fever pitch worldwide until a certain terrible incident occurred. Afterward, dinosaur reserves like Enoshima Dinoland fell on hard times. Enter Suma Suzume, a kindhearted rookie dino-keeper! Can she be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2022