Jacks, Janie
Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACSelinko, Annemarie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SELAlfieri, Annamaria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALFAnderson, AnnMarie
Summary: "Next stop...The Magic School Bus heads to the Galapagos Islands to learn about invasive species! Seat belts, everyone! The class returns from summer break to find their beloved Ms. Frizzle has been promoted and her younger sister, Fiona Frizzle, is taking her place. But Arnold is worried. What if the new Ms. Frizzle makes a mess of things? His fears come true when she takes them on a field...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDBurton, Jaci
Summary: Lucy Fairchild is a confident, successful lawyer and heiress to the Fairchild fortune. Her father thinks he can choose who she'll marry, which Lucy finds ridiculous. She might be thirty and still single, but she's perfectly capable of finding her own man.Jake Dalton owns a construction company and has built his life from nothing to something he can be proud of. His father might have once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Alfieri, Annamaria
Summary: "It's 1913, and Justin Tolliver is no longer a member of the colonial police in British East Africa. Instead, he has opted for life as an African farmer and a newly minted family-man. But once again, Vera and Justin are brought face to face with terrible injustice."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFAlfieri, Annamaria
Summary: The British don't belong in Africa. Their skins are too pale, their clothing too heavy and elaborate, their morality all wrong. And yet here they are in 1912 in the British Protectorate of East Africa, tangled in an uneasy peace with the Sultan of Zanzibar. Much of the tangle in this new mystery in Alfieri's East Africa series concerns the slave trade. The British have outlawed it, but, well,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFAlfieri, Annamaria
Summary: It s 1911, and young Vera McIntosh is in love and out of place. Pale and Scottish, a missionary s daughter, she no longer fits in with the Kikuyu with whom she grew up. But she is too African, too native to be welcomed by Kenya s ex-pat community. It s only in Justin Tolliver s arms that Vera feels truly at home. Tolliver, too, is neither fish nor fowl. True, he s the son of an English earl,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFAlfieri, Annamaria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFHaeringen, Annemarie van
Summary: Unable to paint after surgery, Mr. Matisse sets out to fill his world with color using a mixture of paint and cut paper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAEDavis, Jacky
Summary: A little girl who is very unhappy when her father says she cannot play outside on a rainy day uses her imagination to make the most out of being indoors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVDavis, Jacky
Summary: "Black Belt Bunny is good at sidekicks, backflips, and air chops, but when told he must learn to make a salad, he resists, only to be unexpectedly empowered by himself and the narrator"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DAVFaqir, Fadia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAQSehgal, Kabir
Summary: Siblings Chintoo and Mintoo collect flowers and press the petals into a fine powder as they prepare for Holi, the Indian springtime Festival of Colors. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEHShah, Tahir.
Summary: Here, travel writer Shah sets out on a bold new journey across Morocco. As he wends his way through the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Marrakesh, traverses the Sahara sands, and tastes the hospitality of ordinary Moroccans, Tahir collects a dazzling treasury of traditional stories, gleaned from the heritage of A Thousand and One Nights. The tales, recounted by a vivid cast of characters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: "Lala has lived a dazzling life, filled with love, betrayals, acts of courage and some of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. There is nothing she likes better than to tell stories of her fascinating past - of her grandfather, the legendary owner of the first car in Ukraine; of her aristocratic mother; and not least of herself. Her most avid listener is her grandson, Jacek,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEHKacer, Kathy
Summary: Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage, a medical certificate and a Star of David, lead her to Germany. Sara arrives in Germany determined to explore her newly discovered Jewish heritage and solve the mystery of her parentage. What she encounters is a country still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD-YA FIC KACLee, Jayci
Summary: "Aubrey Choi loves living in her small town nestled in the foothills of California, running her highly successful bakery away from the watch of her strict Korean parents. When a cake mix-up and a harsh review threaten all of her hard work and her livelihood, she never thought the jaded food critic would turn out to be her one-night stand. And she sure as hell never thought she'd see the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEMarías, Javier
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSehgal, Kabir
Summary: Siblings Chintoo and Mintoo collect flowers and press the petals into a fine powder as they prepare for Holi, the Indian springtime Festival of Colors. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SEHSehgal, Kabir
Summary: Bhangra Baby learns to step, hop, twist, and jump as he moves to the rhythm of the dhol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEHBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BUIBuitrago, Jairo.
Summary: Don Apolinar urges Jimmy, who lives in a small Caribbean town where there is not much to do, to start training at the boxing gym and to read about Muhammad Ali. Jimmy begins to realize that he is a good boxer and finds that he would be happy running the gym and improving his hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BuitragoWaldon, Lacie
Summary: Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. That's what freelance editor Jess Reid loves about her hometown--and part of what keeps her from leaving. Content taking care of her father, a car mechanic who singlehandedly raised her after her mom skipped out, Jess is resigned to a safe, unremarkable existence...until Jasper Wilhelm, the town's eccentric benefactor, dies suddenly and leaves behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023