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Summary: "In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOUCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Joukhadar 2018Summary: "Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth. Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FITCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CHOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CHOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHOAlbin, Gennifer.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys is called upon to harness her power in a battle for control of Earth, but as she uncovers the truth about her own history she learns that everyone holds secrets, some of which may drive her from her love, Jost, into his brother Erik's arms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALBCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: "Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHORoss, Jenifer
Summary: Newspaper reporter Hope Jensen goes undercover to find out who has been anonymously giving glass jars filled with money to people in need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ChAlbin, Gennifer.
Summary: Adelice returns to Arras, where the Guild's control is slipping and Cormac Patton needs her help to reestablish order, but she soon discovers that she is not alone and must choose between an unimaginable alliance and a war that could destroy everyone sheloves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALBCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC CHOGoodman, Jenniphr.
Summary: When a young elephant is apprehensive about his first day of school, his parents show him how much fun school can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GOOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CHOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Too shy to approach the girl he likes, Jackson hides little gifts for her to discover before Valentine's Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE CHOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Sam is happy to play with his monkeys until way past bedtime, but he gets tired before them and has to find a way to get them to sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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Summary: Gifted with the unusual ability to embroider the very fabric of life, sixteen-year-old Adelice is summoned by Manipulation Services to become a Spinster, a move that will separate her from her beloved family and home forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALBCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2006
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHOKhan, Zainab
Summary: "Noura can't wait for the sun to go down. The month of Ramadan is almost over, and she and Mama and Papa are headed for the hills for a moonsighting picnic. It would be truly special if Noura's first fast ended with a glimpse of a silvery crescent in the night sky. If the moon stays hidden, that means one more long day before Noura gets to put on her sparkly new dress and the joyful Eid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINWood, Jennie
Summary: After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Can Dylan and Leighton save their friendship and protect their future while trying to survive camp?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick for Mad Cave Comics Inc., published by Mad Cave Studios, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WOOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC WOOKrow, Leyna
Summary: "The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists-a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift-whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KROJenner, Natalie
Summary: "In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Lowry's last chance for a dramatic career. With her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024