Summary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTHKukkonen, Janne
Summary: "Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods -- a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: :01, First second 2019
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Summary: The year is 1914, and Jake O'Farrell has gained an unusual reputation among the locals. He's played the roles of groomsman and best man in all four of his older brothers' weddings, but he's never been able to find the right woman to capture his heart. And with the upcoming wedding of his best friend, Jake will become the last single man in the town of Groom. Anne Denning has made the difficult...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Summerside Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANJanni, Rebecca.
Summary: A brother and sister's struggle to delay bedtime is transformed into a playful dance with their parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Janni 2012Marks, Janae
Summary: Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARHo, Jannie.
Summary: Is Bear friend or foe? When Bear finds a chicken frozen in the winter snow, he brings her home to defrost her. As Chicken thaws--um, awakens--she fears that Bear is actually preparing to eat her. Oh no! Will Chicken become Bear's lunch? Or does Bear have a different plan in mind?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Ho 2017Jaine, Lillian
Summary: There are lots of ways to say "I love you" -and Elmo and his Sesame Street friends are ready to tell you in as many ways as they can!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAIJaine, Lillian
Summary: Elmo's mother tells him all the ways she loves him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2019
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Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MARTrasler, Janee.
Summary: Silly rhyming text invites young readers to join the chickies as they have their pictures taken and learn about opposites.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harperfestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD TRAMarks, Janae
Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARMarks, Janae
Summary: Twelve-year old Joy dreams of writing music for the movies, but first she has to survive her family's move into a small apartment when her father loses his job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARTrasler, Janee
Summary: Dog would like to play with the three frogs he has met, but he is not good at their games of hopping and leaping--but when he chases away a bear the frogs decide to welcome him into their play time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes an historical note about life in America in 1935.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DAJanni, Rebecca.
Summary: Nellie Sue enjoys the county fair, but cannot wait to compete against the reigning champion of the bicycle rodeo, A.J. Picket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E JANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JANJanni, Rebecca.
Summary: Nellie Sue, who fancies herself a real cowgirl, wants a horse for her birthday, but she discovers that a brand new bicycle--her first--takes almost as much taming as a filly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JANCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JANTrasler, Janee
Summary: Bear is Mimi's constant companion until one busy day, when Bear is not there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TRATrasler, Janee.
Summary: Ghost needs to get dressed! But Monster wants something to wear too...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2007
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E TraJanni, Rebecca
Summary: Like all cowgirls, Nellie Sue loves to go camping so after she and her friend Anna practice indoors, Daddy helps them pitch their tent in the wilderness of the back yard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN JANJanni, Rebecca.
Summary: Nellie Sue hopes to make friends with her new neighbors by hosting a hoedown in her barn, but wonders if the "glitter girls" will be able to dance in their ballet slippers, rather than in dancing boots like hers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JANDeVos, Janie.
Summary: In turn-of-the-century Florida, a family comes of age, and a daughter finds her destiny entwined with a land as full of promise as it is danger. The steamy, sweltering banks of Florida's Ocklawaha River don't look much like Glory Land to young Eve Stewart, despite her father's proclamation. But it's here that Eve, her three siblings, and their parents will settle in July, 1875. Within a few...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction DeVos 2017Trasler, Janee
Summary: When Goat appears wearing a raincoat and invites all the animals to go for a boat ride on a sunny day, Dog declines but as heavy rain falls, Dog needs a boat, too.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN TRATrasler, Janee
Summary: "Told in rhyming text, Dog and Frogs are enjoying riding a log in the pond, but then Hog comes along and is not willing to share the log, or the lunch Dog has made. Hog wants it all, so Dog and Frog need to teach Hog a lesson about friendship and sharing"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: In her highly acclaimed debut novel, the bestselling author of Shelter introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history. Here is a stunning chronicle that begins with the Depression and ends with the Vietnam War, revealed in the thoughts, dreams, and memories of each family member. Mitch struggles to earn a living as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011