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Interlochen book club kit includes 5 hardcoversSummary: In 1963, student Anne has a bright future ahead of her, but her dreams of finishing her studies is shattered when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HAPElschner, Géraldine.
Summary: On Christmas Eve, Simon finds a goat with beautiful white hair and when the family decides to raise it instead of eating it, the goat rewards them handsomely.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC ELSElschner, Géraldine.
Summary: Little Hippo, the blue hippo, lived in Ancient Egypt. He had been sleeping below the ground for days, months, centuries ... But one day he woke up in a panic. Everything around him had changed. Only the pyramids remained. "I need to go find my family, my brothers, my friends," thought Little Hippo. And so his journey began.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel Verlag 2014
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Summary: "A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROMcCaughrean, Geraldine.
Summary: Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC MCCMcCaughrean, Geraldine.
Summary: In the 1930s, all is not well. Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland. Fearing for Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys go back to Neverland -- with the help of the fairy Fireflyer -- only to discover their worst nightmares coming true! Peter Pan and his friends eventually restore Neverland to rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCCBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brooks 2011McCaughrean, Geraldine.
Summary: The stories that tell of Christ's lineage unfold as an old carpenter begrudgingly tells a young boy about the Jesse tree he is carving.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220.9505 MCCBrooks, Geraldine
Summary: A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian become connected by their shared interest in a 19th century race horse, one studying its remains, the other uncovering the history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROBrooks, Geraldine
Summary: Traces the arc of King David's journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brooks 2015Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Summary: "A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROMcCaughrean, Geraldine
Summary: In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCMcCaughrean, Geraldine.
Summary: Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC McCauBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BROBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Based on the story of King David, traces his journey from an obscure shepherd to a hero and king before his fall.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Brooks 2015Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMcCaughrean, Geraldine.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Phelim and his companions, a Maiden, a Fool, and a strange black Horse, journey to the Stoor Worm's lair to destroy the long-forgotten Worm and its Hatchlings, who have been roused from their slumber by the sounds of war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MCCBrooks, Geraldine
Summary: "A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BROBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: "As the North reels under a series of defeats during the first years of the Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will change his marriage and challenge his ardently held beliefs"--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BroBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: An extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history by the author of the international bestseller Year of Wonders. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries-old book binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2008