Musil, Manica K.
Summary: Karl the Crocodile is tired of everyone telling him what to do. One day, he rebels. When anyone asks him to do something, he says, ""No, I won't!"" Finally, everyone leaves Karl alone. A very lonely Karl realizes that sometimes it's better to say, ""Yes, I will."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUSMujica, Barbara Louise
Summary: 1910, Mexico. As the country's revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable life in Durango or risk death. Her family settles in Mexico City, where, at sixteen, she marries the worldly Jaime del Rio. But in a twist of fate, at a party she meets an influential American director who recognizes in her a natural performer. He invites her to Hollywood, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grayden House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUJMancillas, Mónica
Summary: Mariana is visiting her abuelita and extended family in Mexico for the first time. Her tummy does a flip as she and Mami cross the frontera. There are all new sights, smells, and sounds. And at Abuelita's house, Mariana is overwhelmed by new faces and Spanish phrases she doesn't understand. But with a story, some kindness, and a few new words from Abuelita, Mariana discovers that the love of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MANMujica, Barbara Louise.
Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the tumultuous marriage between artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as seen through the eyes of Frida's sister, Cristina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUJCarnesi, Mônica.
Summary: "Beatrice the bunny wants to share winter with her best friend, Bear, but he will be busy hibernating"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CARMancillas, Mónica
Summary: After her mother's sudden departure, twelve-year-old Salva Sanchez adjusts to her new life in an RV campground with her father, and finds her voice through new friendships and a love for Celia Cruz, the "queen of salsa."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MANMontañés, Mónica
Summary: "During the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, siblings Soccoro and Paco must live with constant secrets while they wait to reunite with their father, who fled Spain due to political persecution."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Mexican American boy Sami loves combining Spanish and English to make Spanglish and is eager to share his language and joy with his skeptical Abuela and his vibrant community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANKnoll, Jessica
Summary: Grooming herself for an ideal life involving a successful career and a happy marriage, a rising young journalist confronts a violent episode from her past that threatens to unravel everything she has worked to achieve.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KNOMusil, Robert
Contents: v. I. A sort of introduction and Pseudoreality prevails -- v. II. Into the millenium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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Kubica, Mary
Summary: Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident - until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon. ormented by grief and her obsession that Nick's death was far more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2017
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Summary: Two couples are close friends until Nina's husband goes missing. Should Nina's best friend reveal having been the last one to see him? Shocking lies, betrayals, and deep secrets may soon surface.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KUBSummary: When shy, beautiful Sissi is the victim of a horrible car accident, a handsome small-time criminal comes to the rescue and saves her life. Once she recovers, she sets out to find him and discovers that he is a violent man with a conflicted past and dangerous future. It doesn't take long for the two to meet again - during a deadly bank robbery. Now it is her turn to save his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Colubia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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Summary: In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is the only clue, leaving her friend and roommate Quinn to wonder, who is Esther really? And where did she go? Meanwhile, in a small lake town an hour outside of the city, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where eighteen-year-old Alex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kubica 2016Kubica, Mary
Summary: "Remaking her life after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica uncovers a secret that undermines her sense of self even as she navigates a world made hazy by sleeplessness. Meanwhile, the heartbreak of Eden's unmet wish to have a child brings on marital stress, emotional collapse, and, finally, some dangerous behavior."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018
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Summary: "When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1989
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Summary: Drago the little dragon surprises his family when he enters a stunts flying competition with them, after taking flying lessons from a bird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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Summary: Jealous when his brother's loose tooth gets him all the attention, Flapper decides to steal the tooth before the tooth fairy can come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1984
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Summary: Recounts the "real story" of the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims pursued such tough turkeys for dinner that they had to settle for squash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KROKubica, Mary
Summary: The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUBKubica, Mary
Summary: Eleven years after a string of missing persons cases, one of the victims returns and everyone wants to know what happened to her. But no one is prepared for what she has to say.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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Summary: Sadie and Will Foust have traded bustling Chicago for small-town Maine. Their new neighbor, Morgan Baines, is found murdered in her home. All eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2020