Summary: NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Talladega 2006Rascal
Summary: "Shhh! Pablo is asleep. This is his last night inside the shell. Tomorrow he'll come out. But he's very shy so he starts with just a very little hole ... Tap tap!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2021
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Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Erin discovers she is the daughter of the love god Cupid, she uses her newfound ability to sabotage her rival Trevor by making him fall in love with her, but she soon realizes love has a funny way of complicating things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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Summary: Andrew P. Cohen, a successful NYU professor of comparative culture, is suddenly plagued with strange and inexplicable visions of an ancient religious ritual. As his superficially perfect world begins to unravel, he is forced to question his beliefs. Interspersed throughout the novel are pages from an ancient (pseudo)Talmudic text, harking back to the golden age of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: A young child sets out to build the best snowman ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "A pair of Christmas tree ornaments set out on the merry adventure of a lifetime in this imaginative picture book about the inner lives of holiday decorations. All is quiet in the forest as the Great Star rises in the distance, and two little musicians, Strum and Drum, wake up from a deep slumber and set out to make the most joyous music they can! But as Strum strums his guitar and Drum drums...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AWASummary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROMSalmon, Caspar
Summary: "Get ready to show off your skills in this fun new counting book! But not everything is as it seems . . . is this book really only about counting to "ONE?" Because there are SO MANY fun things that you could count. But wait --maybe there's a way to outsmart the book . . . and count all the way up to 100!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2023
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Summary: What so many have feared is finally happening. The global AI system has gone haywire. Authorities are slowly realizing that the Worldwide Integrated Consciousness System (WICS) is beyond human control. WICS is certainly transforming and changing the world, but in ways nobody saw coming. Looking for answers, the American government arrives at Tall Oaks assisted living facility. Mateo, a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: On the Level Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NASMercier, Pascal
Summary: Former Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, with whose work he becomes obsessed, and journeys all over the city in search of the truth about the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MERSummary: Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, Fabien decides to find out about the lover's widow, Martine, first by stalking her, then by breaking into her home. He really needs to get Martine on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2014
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Summary: Former Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, with whose work he becomes obsessed, and journeys all over the city in search of the truth about the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MERPascal, Francine.
Summary: First published as a digital, serial, The Sweet Life contains six serialized episodes for fans of Sweet Valley's favorite twins, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. The stories p ick up three years after the events of Sweet Valley Confidential.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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Summary: Prominent linguist and widower Philipp Perlmann contemplates drastic measures when he faces exposure after plagiarizing a colleague's work for his keynote address at an important academic gathering in Genoa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011
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Summary: Elizabeth and Jessica are starting middle school together, but the twin sisters soon realize they have different interests and it is good to become their own person.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SWEWeinberger, Caspar W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: "From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Casares 2019Isaac, Oscar
Summary: During a violent year in New York City, a man struggles to keep his heating company running while dealing with his competitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hesperus 2003
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Summary: In New York, a father's worst nightmare arrives just before Christmas when Edward Ives learns his son Robert, 17, was murdered in the street for $10 by another teenager. The novel describes his coming to terms with his loss. By the author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIJSummary: Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023