Nisbet, Jim.
Summary: In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly-completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NISSummary: "Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIRSummary: A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2002
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAI1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RAI
Jimi.
Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIANesbet, Anne
Summary: After she is sent to her grandmother's orphanage in Maine when her father becomes a fugitive from the law in 1940s America, Augusta Neubronner has to deal with her classmates' suspicions over her German name and tries to find comfort in playing in the orphanage band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NESNesbet, Anne
Summary: "It's 1915, and "missing" heiress Victorine Berryman is living incognito as "Bella Mae Goodwin" with her best friend, Darleen Darling, star of the exciting photoplay serials adventure-loving audiences crave. When the girls travel cross-country to set up roots in Hollywood, California, home of the developing film industry, they find themselves mixed up in a plot as dramatic as anything on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUNesbet, Anne
Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Battle of the Books Display, Call number: J FIC NES2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NES
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESNesbet, Anne.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Linny embarks on an epic quest to save her best friend and discovers that she is the link between the magical and logical halves of her world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOCampbell, Lisbeth
Summary: When a country is held in thrall to a vicious, despotic king, it's up to one woman to take him down in this gorgeous literary fantasy debut from Lisbeth Campbell. Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed it was an assassination by a neighboring king, but everyone knew it was a lie. He had Disappeared her himself. But after finding the missing queen's diary, Anza--impassioned by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMSherman, Bim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SHELee, J.M.
Summary: "An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process. The enigmatic Gilmo used to have a quiet life back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEELiu, Jia
Summary: "When Merlin the owl tries to make a friend, it takes a little more practice than he expected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIURim, Sujean
Summary: "Chee-Kee, a young panda, moves with his parents to a new land of opportunity. Just when he's resigned to never fit in, Chee-Kee finds a way to use his own experience and ingenuity to save the day and show that he's one of a kind in all the best ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIMMai, Jia
Summary: "One of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breaking In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAILiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUSlegers, Liesbet
Summary: A child describes what he enjoys about all four seasons, from listening to birds sing in spring and collecting shells on the beach in summer to seeing colorful leaves in fall and building a snowman in winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SLEJin, Ha
Summary: The story follows the Wu family as they adjust to life in America after severing their ties with China after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Though their future seems secure, things aren't as simple as they appear. As much of the family slowly adjusts to American life, the father, Nan is disillusioned and finds it hard to totally break with his homeland despite his violent disagreement with its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JINXiaojing, Jin
Summary: A child asks different family members about her late grandfather and learns of his characteristics through the features he passed down to his children and grandchildren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE XIASlegers, Liesbet
Summary: A book filled with recognizable images of a brisk fall day and a winter's day in the snow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SLESlegers, Liesbet.
Summary: A young girl carves a jack-o-lantern and has a special meal before going trick or treating and having fun at a friend's party.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC SLEJin, Ha
Summary: A collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend's parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009