Rania
Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RanSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOMaljartschuk, Tanja
Summary: A Biography of a Chance Miracle explores the life of Lena, a young girl growing up in the somewhat vapid, bureaucracy-ridden and nationalistic Western Ukrainian city of San Francisco. Lena is a misfit from early childhood due to her unwillingness to scorn everything Russian, her propensity for befriending forlorn creatures, her aversion to the status quo, and her fear of living a stupid and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cadmus Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALStojic, Manya.
Summary: As snow approaches and begins to fall, Moose, Bear, Fox, and other forest creatures prepare for winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANGuerrero, Tanya
Summary: Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUEHuff, Tanya.
Summary: When former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds out why space pirates needed salvage operator Craig Ryder, she calls in the Marines to get him back--and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFSimpson, Tonya
Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIMYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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Summary: "An artistic, fashion-loving boy unlocks a new talent--and learns to stand up for it--in this chapter book perfect for fans of the Sadiq series and Meet Yasmin! Tehzeeb drew curvy clouds, grand galaxies, squirmy squiggles, and delicate dots. He made charming checkerboards and even perfected paisleys. His practice was finally paying off! The first time Tehzeeb tries mehndi, his passion for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BANHuff, Tanya
Summary: When Auntie Catherine warns the Gale family of an approaching asteroid, Charlotte "Charlie" Gale turns to her supernaturally complicated family for help and soon discovers that the asteroid is the least of her problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: The military adventure continues in this brand new entry in Tanya Huff's bestselling Confederation series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Charlotte, a Wild Power, partners with a family of Selkies to fight offshore oil drilling while her formidable Aunt Catherine is hired by the oil company to steal the Selkies' sealskins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFCarver, Tania.
Summary: Stumbling upon signs of an insane serial killer, Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito discover a cage constructed of human bones containing a feral child who the killer is determined to reclaim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARVelasco, Manuela
Summary: When a reporter and her cameraman follow firemen into an apartment building in response to a distress call, local authorities quarantine the building and the reporter, her cameraman, the firemen and the residents are trapped inside to face a lethal threat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RECSachdeva, Anjali
Summary: "A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives Anjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SACKukafka, Danya
Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Lucinda Hayes is found dead in her sleepy Colorado suburb, the secret lives of three people connected to her are revealed: the social outcast who loved her from afar, the jaded girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating her death"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUKKukafka, Danya
Summary: "Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die--he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women--a mother, a sister, a homicide detective--we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUKHuff, Tanya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFHuff, Tanya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2004