Fridlund, Emily
Summary: ""So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!"-Aimee Bender. Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fridlund 2017Luiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUIFisher, Valorie.
Summary: This book covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes, colors, and seasons and uses bright photos of retro toys to illustrate these topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FISFontaine, Valérie
Summary: "The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.829 FONLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Luiselli 2019Valerio, Geraldo
Summary: A little girl falls asleep, her book in hand, and as she dreams an astonishing adventure unfolds. This wordless picture book celebrates the joy and freedom that can be found in stories, dreams and the imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VALFriedland, Elyssa
Summary: "The four Potter children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet, as adults, their financial lives--as well as their personal lives--are in complete disarray. The siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore home on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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Summary: Inspired by a visit to an art museum, Raven sets out to create a masterpiece but her discarded mistakes start stalking her, teaching her to accept her imperfections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WICFriedland, Elyssa
Summary: Sink or swim. Or at least that's what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for her entire family. It's been over a decade since the Feldman clan has spent more than twenty-four hours under the same roof, but Annette is determined to celebrate her seventieth birthday the right way. Just this once, they are going to behave like an actual family. Too bad her kids didn t get the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRIFriedland, Jacqueline
Summary: Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby's parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sparkpress 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRISummary: A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN REDManfredi, Valerio.
Summary: The story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan plain who have worked the land since time immemorial, and the homeless multitudes, travelers, and tinkers roaming Europe during the hardscrabble nineteen twenties and thirties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2012
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Summary: On their first visit to a playground, two little chickens are afraid to play until a beaver helps them go down the slide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2001
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Summary: One of Mother Hen's little chicks is missing. Did they leave him in the house? Is he hiding in his bed, or under a bush? Mother Hen and the neighbors search high and low, but there's still no sign of the missing chick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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Summary: Molly buys so many balloons for all her animal friends at the fair, she gets carried away into the air.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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Summary: "From dressing oneself to mastering colors, patterns, and even making the bed, Fisher's encouraging book balances the known and the new."--Publishers Weekly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FISValério, Geraldo
Summary: "On a dull gray day, a boy puts his dog on a leash and they walk to a shimmering pond where snowy white swans swim freely. One of the swans invites the boy and dog for a ride. They climb on its back and sail into a stunningly beautiful landscape, dotted with wildflowers, spoonbills and ibises. Foxes, rabbits and deer appear in this paradise, then butterflies and even bigger, more beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VALGorbachev, Valeri
Summary: "Running through town to get a pizza for himself and his mother, Pinky unwittingly becomes covered in snow; now everyone thinks he is a walking snowman!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GORGorbachev, Valeri.
Summary: When Christopher Rabbit learns to count in school, he enjoys it so much that he counts everything in sight, including how many baskets his friends make when they play basketball and how many peas and carrots are on his plate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GORSummary: Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDVallere, Diane
Summary: When an old friend leaves Madison Night a pajama factory, she gets caught in a tangle of secrets and lies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Vallere 2018Blackman, Malorie
Summary: Sephy is a Cross- dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought- pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing. But he dreams of a better life.Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. But this is love story that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASelkowe, Valrie M.
Summary: Danny Duck needs something to take to a "green" contest at a spring party and surprises himself by what he actually takes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SELGorbachev, Valeri.
Summary: Although they disagree about Bootsy the cat's individual talents, a brother and sister do agree that he's a very special pet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010