Summary: Revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh Irish landscape combined with the myths, fables, and songs of his Connemara youth helped shape this fascinating character. Enigmatic and complex, Heaney's devotion to his art came at a huge personal cost. But by the time of his death in 1984, he was widely recognized as one of the most important figures in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SONSummary: An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MILFarmiga, Vera
Summary: A single mother and her teenage son have to drive her estranged criminally-inclined father from Texas to California after he has been kicked out of his retirement home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOURosenberry, Vera.
Summary: Vera cannot wait for the day when she starts school, but the first day does not go exactly as she has anticipated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSStrange, Vera
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Delia's obsession with being fashionable and popular at her elite private school turns scary when she acquires a cursed coat from the fashion house of Cruella De Vil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2021
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Summary: "It's almost the first day of preschool and everyone is busy getting ready. A young boy and his family meet the teacher, post a family photo on the classroom wall, send a special lovey for naptime, pack a healthy lunch, and take a special photo... but isthat everything he will need for his big first day? Maybe just one more hug first!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When his little sister is kidnapped for her magical powers, Bucky Orson goes on a strange journey to find her, uncovering his town's painful history and a conspiracy that will change it forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GRERoughan, Howard.
Summary: Philip Randall is getting what everyone wants--a rising career in a big New York law firm, a rich and beautiful wife, enough disposable income to turn Manhattan into a movable feast. So why is Philip testing fate by sleeping with his best friends wife? And who is the man watching every move Philip makes--and waiting to make a move of his own? Philip doesn't expect this development: a man from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROUVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARKay, Verla.
Summary: Simple rhyming text presents the everyday life of a young girl, living on a Pennsylvania farm in the early eighteenth century, who is quickly outgrowing her dress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E KayVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARBrosgol, Vera
Summary: "Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid. With her last shot at happiness lost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC BROBrosgol, Vera.
Summary: Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2011
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Summary: It's Independence Day and Mary is enjoying the parade until the July Queen, a local high school student named Amanda Branson, disappears. Mary thinks she saw Amanda at the docks just after the parade, but is not sure and Chief McArthur won't listen to her. Then it seems Mary's granddaughter Daisy holds the key to finding Amanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guideposts 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DODKurian, Vera
Summary: It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre ... She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURRosenberry, Vera.
Summary: When spots break out all over her body, Vera must stay in the sick room where it is lonely and scary and where she can't fall asleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSAhiyya, Vera
Summary: Leo, a quiet kid who is not ready for his first day of kindergarten, ends up having a great day when he makes a kindness pledge and discovers he knows a lot about being kind to others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AHIBrosgol, Vera
Summary: As they head off to find breakfast, the mighty Little Guys conquer all obstacles in their path through teamwork, but when they amass more than they need, their fellow forest creatures worry about what happens if no one can stop the Little Guys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROBrosgol, Vera
Summary: Freda uses jars to save everything from a chocolate chip cookie to the full moon, just as her grandmother saves summer blueberries. Includes a recipe for blueberry jam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRORosenberry, Vera.
Summary: Illustrations and simple text describe some sights and sounds associated with each season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSRosenberry, Vera.
Summary: Vera is riding her new bicycle in the school yard, when she discovers there's no one there to help her brake to stop herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSStrange, Vera
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jamal has always lived in his twin brother, Malik's, shadow. All he wants in the world is to know, just for one day, what it's like to be his more popular, more talented, and more confident brother. So when a mysterious man named Dr. Facilier appears and offers Jamal the opportunity to do just that, Jamal jumps at the chance. But when he wakes up the next morning to find his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STRStrange, Vera
Summary: "My dear, sweet child. Go ahead. Don't be afraid ..." Eleven-year-old Shelly Anderson just wants to be popular. Her parents have split and she has to start over at a new school with different classes, a brand new swim team and an unfamiliar social scene. So what if she just wants the cool kids to like her? Is that really too much to ask? So when Shelly finds a mysterious nautilus shell that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2020
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Summary: "A not-quite epic science fiction adventure about a down-on-his luck galactic pilot caught in a cross-galaxy struggle for survival! Space travel just isn't what it used to be. With the invention of Quantum Teleportation, space heroes aren't needed anymore. When one particularly unlucky ex-adventurer masquerades as famous pilot and hate figure Jacques McKeown, he's sucked into an ever-deepening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2017