Summary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONClaus, Santa.
Summary: Ever wonder what Santa does with all those letters? (And all those cookies?) After a particularly long, cold night staring at nine smelly reindeer butts, the old man lets loose with the real answers to those stupid, whiny, hard-to-read letters from kids. Turns out, we really do get what we deserve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2008
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Summary: "An all-new Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring Nickelodeon's Corn & Peg! Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Peg and Corn are inseparable best buddies who love to make their home, Galloping Grove, a better place. This mighty unicorn and Pegasus duo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green ClaussGehrmann, Katja
Summary: "A little goose hatches out of an egg and starts following a bear around. The bear becomes more and more convinced that the gosling is actually a bear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEHClauss, Lauren
Summary: Welcome to the magical world of Palace Pets, where each Disney Princess has a furry pet to love and care for! Blondie loves being Princess Rapunzel's royal pony. What will happen when a new pet moves into the castle? Young readers and Disney Princess Palace Pets fans ages 3 to 5 will love this book, which is full of sweet, cuddly pets--and 30+ stickers! Step 1 readers feature big type and easy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CLAClauss, Lauren
Summary: "Young readers ages 4 to 6 can get to know Berry, Snow White's bunny, and learn how she became the princess's fur-ever friend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: "A man drives his truck up to a cliff's edge. Unable to go any further, he opens the back door of his truck and a flock of birds flies out, but, as the man soon discovers, a small timid bird remains. Surprised and delighted, the man acts kindly towards the bird and an intimacy develops. After lunch, the man tries to show the bird that he should fly off and join his friends. The man's comic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZULHesse, Hermann
Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1976
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Summary: A classic of modern literature, The Journey to the East is a profound rendering of the struggle between faith and despair. The hero, identified only as H.H., recounts a fantastic spiritual and geographic pilgrimage he took years ago with the League, a secret society whose members include the likes of Paul Klee, Mozart, and Baudelaire. Traversing both time and space, the pilgrims come across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESBaumgart, Klaus.
Summary: When her family's Christmas trip has to be cancelled, Laura finds a way to create a special kind of magic for the holiday, with the help of her own special star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Tiger Press 1999
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E BAUBaumgart, Klaus.
Summary: A lonely little girl befriends a star that has fallen out of the sky, but when the star begins to get sick she must allow it to return home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Tiger Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC BAUClark, Clare.
Summary: A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLABaumgart, Klaus.
Summary: A lonely little girl befriends a star that has fallen out of the sky, but when the star begins to get sick she must allow it to return home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Tiger Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Baumgart 1997Clark, Clare
Summary: "Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal--involving newly discovered van Goghs--that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power. Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin inthe 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClark, Clare.
Summary: 1910. Jessica and Phyllis Melville have grown up at Ellinghurst, a family estate fraught with secrets. A headstrong beauty, Jessica longs for London -- the glitter and glamour of debutante life -- while bookish Phyllis dreams in vain of attending university. Into their midst walks Oskar Grunewald, a frequent visitor fascinated by the house but alternately tormented and ignored by the Melville...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAGuendelsberger, Erin
Summary: As Little Red travels from the Christmas shop to the North Pole, seeking Santa in hopes she can be his sleigh one day, good advice helps her discover her true purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GUECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday GuendelsbergerSharff, Billy
Summary: "When one family's cookies are so good that Santa and other holiday characters decide to stay, the question of why this holiday only comes once a year is answered by the time the 4th of July rolls around, when everyone's had a bit too much Christmas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAChaud, Benjamin.
Summary: Papa Bear wakes up to find his son missing, and his search leads him to an opera house and a command performance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHACoats, Lucy
Summary: "Odin, the ruler of the Asgardians, has an important mission for Demon. Goldbristle, the gods' prized shining boar, is losing his light. Now Demon must travel to Asgard in the North to search this cold, snowy land for anything that might cure this beast." -back of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COAHesse, Hermann
Summary: Dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent, led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian, into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood. mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC HESHesse, Hermann
Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESBarnett, Mac
Summary: "When Santa arrives at a child's house on Christmas Eve, does he go down the chimney feetfirst or headfirst? What if he gets stuck? What if there's no chimney? Maybe he slides under the door, as thin as a piece of paper? Or is it possible he pours himself through the faucet? What happens once he's inside? Whether it's shape-shifting or impromptu laundry use, Mac Barnett's iconic talent for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BARClark, Clare.
Summary: Returning home from the battlefields of 1855 Crimea, William May struggles to recover from his experiences by working on London's new sewer system, a job that is compromised by a murder accusation that strains his tenuous hold on sanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLABerry-Byrd, Holly
Summary: "Follow Santa and Mrs. Claus around their home at the North Pole! What fun surprises will you find?" - Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022