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Board books Civilization, Subterranean Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Friendship Fiction Gays Juvenile fiction Historical reenactments Juvenile fiction Letters Juvenile fiction Life on other planets Fiction Stories in rhyme United States. Army History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile fictionSummary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEvans, Lezlie.
Summary: Children eagerly wait for the snow to begin to fall, and when it does, they spend a day of fun playing in it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC EVAEvans, Lezlie.
Summary: Rhyming text reveals that, although baby animals are not always perfect, their mothers love them and help them through difficult moments.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Evans 2010Walton, Leslye J. (Leslye Jo Anne)
Summary: "Generations of the Roux family have learned this lesson the hard way. Foolish love appears to be the family birthright, in fact, which casts an ominous fate for its most recent progeny: twins Ava and Henry Lavender. Henry is mute for much of his young life, and Ava -- in all other ways a normal girl -- is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WALMeaney, John.
Summary: The war against the Blight is over, and the subterranean realms of Nulapeiron have a chance for peace. But Tom Corcorigan, revolutionary and war hero, newly married and longing for the quiet life, knows that a greater force threatens his world: the planet-consuming Anomaly, which has absorbed billions of humans and alien beings into itself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEAMeaney, John.
Summary: Devastated by her husband's death. Earth-based biologist Yoshiko Sunadomari journeys to the paradise world of Fulgar to see her estranged son. Tetsuo, in the hope of bridging the gulf between them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEALeckie, Ann
Summary: "Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECHermann, Nellie
Summary: Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when Ruby is ten, her eldest brother enters the hospital and emerges as someone she barely recognizes. It is only the first in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERLeali, Michael
Summary: "A heartfelt part-epistolary middle grade debut about one boys attempt to find himself in the history he loves--perfect for fans of Alex Gino and Julie Murphy. Amos Abernathy has been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if theres something missing from history. Someone like the two of them....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LEALemmie, Asha
Summary: When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLillie, Vanessa
Summary: "A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMeaney, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEAMeaney, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEAVale, Lillie
Summary: "High-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she's a little too ambitious, a little too mouthy, and overall just a little too much. In one word: besharam. So, when her nemesis, Ian Jun, witnesses Kavya's very public breakup with her loser boyfriend on the last day of junior year, she decides to lay low...Exhausted by Kavya and Ian's years-long feud, their friends hatch a plan to end their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VALLainoff, Lillie
Summary: France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school: it is an academy for female Musketeers, socialites on the surface but dangerous, well-trained women who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAILillie, Patricia.
Summary: Each month a child adds something to an empty box, including a red foil heart in February and toasted pumpkin seeds in October.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILLeali, Michael
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Luca Salvatore is always running interference: in arguments between his younger twin siblings, in his parents' troubled marriage, and between Will, the cute new boy in town, and Luca's best friend, June, who just can't seem to get along. When the host of his favorite culinary TV show announces an open call for submissions for its final season, Luca is sure getting his family's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEALeSieg, Theo.
Summary: In rhyming text, describes how both animals and people have teeth, and explores how teeth are useful and how to care for them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD LESLemmie, Asha
Summary: "From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lemmie 2020Lillie, Patricia.
Summary: Text and pictures assign a cow to a barn, a dish to a cupboard, a family to a house, and other things to their place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LILElliott, Lexie
Summary: "An exhilarating psychological suspense debut that will propel readers into the darkest edges of friendship, for fans of Fiona Barton, Clare Mackintosh, and Ruth Ware. They were six university students from Oxford--friends and sometimes more than friends--spending an idyllic week together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway...until they met Severine, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLLeSieg, Theo.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations briefly point out what animals have teeth, their uses, and how to care for them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESLeali, Michael
Summary: "Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEALeSieg, Theo.
Summary: A boy and rabbit both have two eyes that see all kinds of things, from blue and red to a bird and a bed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999