Elbee, Viviane
Summary: Trying to teach your giraffe to ski can be difficult--especially when she only wants to fly down the Big Scary Slope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchElbee, Viviane
Summary: Daryl does not want to share his favorite dinosaur book, so when it is time to bring it back to the library he uses all his dinosaur skills to get it back until a friendly librarian encourages him to share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBSchwartz, Viviane
Summary: Tiny Cat is very confident at counting to four balls of yarn, but when more and more come bouncing into Tiny Cat's life, things get tricky! Of course, Tiny Cat finds the perfect way to settle the matter - sleep on it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHDurrant, Sabine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURTubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: "A fictional account of eleven-year-old Viviani Joffre Fedeler, who was born and raised in the New York Public Library, and her older brothers and best friend Eva, who all try and find out if the library is haunted."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBDuarte, Judy.
Summary: As a teen, Kristy Smith spent her nights dreaming of a college scholarship--dreams that ended abruptly when she became pregnant. Now Kristy works hard to support her young son, Jason, and her ailing grandmother, staving off regrets about the chances that slipped away. When Craig Houston became a pastor, he envisioned making a difference in some distant, poverty-stricken country, not dealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUADuarte, Judy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUAFrench, Vivian.
Summary: In this deadly funny fourth Tale from the Five Kingdoms, it's Gracie Gillypot's birthday, and Prince Marcus plans to show her a flight of dragons as a special gift. But when greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, evil magic and Total Oblivion threaten the Five Kingdoms. Gracie must find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg before the Old Malignant One does in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FREConroy, Vivian
Summary: "The mist-shrouded moors of Devon proffer a trove of delights for two vacationing zoologists--but also conceal a hoard of dark secrets reaching down to the fathomless depths of the ocean.Miss Merula Merriweather barely saved her uncle from the gallows after he was wrongly accused of murder--and now, she's left the bustle of Victorian London to recuperate in the fresh air of Dartmoor with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFrench, Vivian.
Summary: It's a fine day for dwarf watching! At least that's what Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus innocently think as they set out, unaware that Princess Marigold has honed her sights on Marcus and plans to follow him to the ends of the earth — fan, frilly petticoats, and all. As for the dwarves, it's not a fine day at all: they're overworked and underpaid, rushing to produce extra gold to make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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French, Vivian.
Summary: High above the mountain village of Fracture, trouble is brewing. The sorceress Lady Lamorna wants a skull-studded gown of deep black velvet, but her treasure chest is empty of gold. That doesn't stop her, however, from kidnapping, blackmailing, and using more than a little magic to get what she needs. Will her plans be foiled by the heroic Gracie Gillypot, two chatty bats, a gallant (if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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Vivian, Daisy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIVDuarte, Judy.
Summary: When Amy Masterson finds the three-story Victorian house that belongs to her great-grandmother, Eleanor Rucker, she's surprised to discover a run-down building. Amy rents the house, fully furnished, and as she begins cleaning out the debris, she opens a window into the past she knows almost nothing about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUAShotwell, Vivien.
Summary: "Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHODunant, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunant, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNShaw, Vivian
Summary: "A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies. Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShaw, Vivian
Summary: "Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her family's specialty for generations. Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills -- vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHADunant, Sarah.
Summary: In the declining years of the rule of the Medici over Renaissance Florence, an atmosphere of enlightenment and sophistication prevailed; gorgeous art, relaxed mores, and intellectual freedom were the order of the day. But the puritan ideologue Savonarola began to exert ever more control over the city, and was turning it, bit by bit, into a totalitarian theocratic city-state, burning art and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunant, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: O. Penzler Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNFrench, Vivian.
Summary: While visiting his grandfather, who has a wonderful garden, Oliver learns to eat vegetables other than potatoes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1995