Summary: After a roving motorcycle gang attacks him on the street, timid bookkeeper Casey joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence. But when he attends Sensei's mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of brutality and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ARTBitov, Andreĭ
Summary: Seemingly unrelated stories attempt to recreate and identify the writer of a novel once read by the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMiedoso, Andres
Summary: After Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIESummary: After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy escapes from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ITAKortchik, Lana
Summary: "Watching the Red Army withdraw from Ukraine in the face of Hitler's relentless advance, Natasha Smirnova realises her life is about to change forever. As Kiev is cast under the dark cloud of occupation, Natasha falls in love with Mark, a Hungarian soldier, enlisted against all his principles on the side of the Nazis. But as Natasha fights to protect the friends and family she holds dear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2020Kortchik, Lana
Summary: While on a train headed for labor camps under Nazi command, Lisa, a young Russian woman, is rescued by resistance fighters and falls in love with Maxim, one of the battalion members, who has dark secrets, while Maxim's wife, Irina, trapped in a government job back in Kyïv, risks her life to help her neighbors, and both women must face a hard decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2021Kurkov, Andreĭ
Summary: Sergey Sergeyich is one of the last residents of a Ukrainian village in the "Grey Zone," a no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces in Crimea. Sergeyich's one pleasure in life is taking care of his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must move the bees to a place they can safely collect pollen. On his journey, he will meet people on both sides of the battle lines in a country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Vellum Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURKurkov, Andreĭ.
Summary: In the prequel to Penguin Lost, aspiring writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life in poverty-and-violence-wracked Kiev--he's out of work and his only friend is a penguin, Misha, that he rescued when the local zoo started getting rid of animals. Even more nerve-wracking: a local mobster has taken a shine to Misha and wants to keep borrowing him for events. But Viktor thinks he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville International Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURLivadnyĭ, Andreĭ
Summary: He is a cyber dweller. A gamer who's grown up in the web of virtual illusion woven from hundreds of phantom worlds. His biggest dream is to dump the real world for good. His desperate hunger for new experiences forces him to take a risk and become one of the first proud owners of a neuronet implant. The new gadget becomes part of him, but soon it's not enough. If only he could finally burn all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Summary: Desmond and Andres visit the acquarium where they discover a mermaid whose song puts anyone who hears it under a spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEMiedoso, Andres
Summary: When one of the dogs snatched by the dog catcher is feared to be a werewolf, everyone ends up chasing their tails in this 12th spooky adventure in the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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Summary: When supernatural things start happening in the house timid Andres and his parents just moved into, next-door-neighbor Desmond Cole, eight, comes to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIENeuman, Andres
Summary: Playful, philosophizing, and gloriously unpredictable, Andrés Neuman's short stories consider love, lechery, history, mortality, family secrets, therapy, Borges, mysterious underwear, translators, and storytelling itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUMiedoso, Andres
Summary: Desmond, Andres, and their ghost-friend Zax take turns trying to tell the scariest story of all while gathered around the campfire on a camping trip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEMiedoso, Andres
Summary: Desmond and Andres attend a school dance at Kersville Elementary that is complicated by reluctant dancers, over-loud music, teacher supervision, and ghouls on the dance floor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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Summary: A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KURKurkov, Andreĭ.
Summary: "Penguin Lost finds Viktor Zolotaryov sneaking back into Kiev under an assumed identity to undertake a dangerous mission: He wants to find Misha, his penguin, whom he fears has fallen into the hands of the criminal mob looking for Viktor himself. Guilt-ridden and determined to do what it takes, Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who employs him in an election-rigging campaign, in return for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURMiedoso, Andres
Summary: "Kersville Elementary School has a problem: there's a very hungry vampire on the loose! But this creature doesn't thirst for blood. Instead, he's been eating the students' homework! Can Desmond Cole stop the monster from turning everyone's work into foodfor thought?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEDandrea, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANAndros, Camille
Summary: A little girl and her favorite dress have extraordinary adventures together, but when the girl emigrates from Greece to the United States they are separated, and the dress travels the world searching for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANDAndreu, Maria E.
Summary: Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ANDAndric, Ivo
Summary: The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSapkowski, Andrzej
Summary: "The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAPAndreu, Maria E.
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Julieta starts writing a rom-com mystery and posting it online, she unexpectedly receives comments from a mysterious user, so with three suspects in mind, Julieta sets out to find her secret admirer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2023