Summary: Zero Motivation is a unique, sharply observed, sometimes dark and often hilarious portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female soldiers in a remote Israeli desert outpost. Playing out like M*A*S*H meets Orange is the New Black, Talya Lavie's debut details the power struggles of three women with different agendas and very little to do. Pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZERLavigne, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVLavigne, Michael.
Summary: From the author of Not Me , this powerful novel about an Israeli father and his daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. In the galvanizing opening of The Wanting , the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing the result of which is that his life and perceptions become heightened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013
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Abril, Mauricio
Summary: Practically perfect Pintro the robot learns how to create art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Paull, Laline
Summary: "A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts"-- publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: A young girl takes a hike with her father, asking many questions along the way about what princesses do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rising Moon 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COYSharma, Akhil
Summary: As an inspector for the Physical Education Department in the Delhi school system, Ram Karan supports his widowed daughter and eight-year-old granddaughter by collecting bribes for a small-time Congress Party boss. On the eve of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, one reckless act bares the lifetime of violence and sexual shame behind Ram's dingy public career and involves him in a farcical, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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Summary: 1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt's office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future...The future: welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SAVAbriel, Anita
Summary: "Paris 1943, Lana Antanov is on her way to see her husband, Frederic with news that she is pregnant. As she arrives at the convent where Frederic teaches piano, she watches in horror as Gestapo officers execute Frederic for hiding a Jewish girl in the piano. Lana is overcome with grief. That evening, she loses the baby. A few months later, Lana is approached by a member of the resistance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: "A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Summary: "For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman -- now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ADLAvila, Lorraine
Summary: "Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with José, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AVIStott, Apryl
Summary: Coco sets out to help her new friend, Bear, show other animals he is not mean just because he is big, and soon they all have learned something about kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: When Coco, a young girl, loses her brave during dress rehearsal for their special dance at the summer festival, she and Bear decide to quit the show, but when Bear gets stuck on a wobbly bridge, Coco bravely rescues him, so perhaps she has enough brave to join Bear onstage after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Ruby the fox uses tools to overcome her social anxiety during a class project at her new school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When her university professor father is sent by the Gestapo to a concentration camp, seven-year-old Anna travels the Polish countryside with the mysterious Swallow Man during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SAVKlein, Adria F. (Adria Fay)
Summary: Many clowns in colorful costumes are riding on Circus Train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KLECoyle, Carmela LaVigna
Summary: During a family camp-out, a young girl asks many questions about what they will do, how she can help, and what they see and hear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2015
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Summary: While a little boy spends a day playing with his older sister, he asks many questions about princesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rising Moon 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Coyle 2006Coyle, Carmela LaVigna.
Summary: When a little girl asks her mother about princesses, she learns that they are much like herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rising Moon 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION CoyleCoyle, Carmela LaVigna.
Summary: "Follow along as two ragtag, everyday super heroes don capes to play in the mud, save their stuffed animals from certain peril, conquer the vegetables at dinner, and overcome darkness at night"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COYSharma, Akhil
Summary: Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014