Allain, Stephanie
Summary: This empowering, age-appropriate picture book portrays children asserting in no uncertain terms who is in charge of their bodies, voices and choices, as they proudly and loudly state, "I AM!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Summary: Inspired by a true story, a remarkable friendship between a baby elephant and her keeper shows that kindness is never forgotten. Includes a note about the zookeeper named Denise Weston Austin who protected the baby Asian elephant named Sheila during World War II in Belfast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RANAllyn, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAlyan, Hala
Summary: "A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALYAlyan, Hala
Summary: On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A drifter takes a job at a hunting lodge in Northern Ontario, with the expectation of a big payday for the summer's work. But when the eccentric owner decides to renege on her promises, she ends up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLWink, Callan.
Summary: "A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Wild West re-enactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Indian "squaw" who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor caught in a scary dispute over land and cattle with her former step-son - Callan Wink's characters are often confronted with predicaments few of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2016
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Summary: The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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Summary: "From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALYSummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRMozina, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZAllin, Lou
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllin, Lou
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllyn, Douglas.
Summary: After a stint in jail which cost him his wife and career, Dr. David Westbrook takes his battered jeep, a one-eyed cat, and his troubled past to northern Michigan to start over in a clinic where he can heal injured animals, and maybe himself, at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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Summary: "A captivating debut introducing a spirited young heroine coming of age in coastal Maine during the early 1960s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROGMozina, Andrew
Summary: After his father dies of a heart attack while listening to a meditation CD, Matthew Grzbc, a newly divorced father and professional harpist, confronts his romantic life, professional aspirations, and his own mortality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZMozina, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZSummary: Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwSummary: "Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year 2023, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: A pumpkin tells its life story, from seed to flower to jack-o-lantern and back to seed again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Handprint Books 2003
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Summary: "Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BILDevlin, Calla
Summary: "The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016