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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Atlantic Ocean History 19th century Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Human-animal relationships Juvenile fiction Illinois Fiction Imagination Juvenile fiction Mice Fiction Mice Juvenile fiction Ocean travel Juvenile fiction Social classes FictionSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Her funding rejected by the Royal Society, and pursued by an obsessed member of German nobility, Lily travels from London to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank's questionable services to guide her downriver in search of an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities which would change the future of medicine. Thinking she sees Frank for who he truly is -- a pun-loving con man who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUN1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUN
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Jungle 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUNSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSchell, Orville
Summary: "A uniquely experienced observer of China now gives us a novel that recounts the familiar but still mesmerizing events from the rise of Mao to the Tiananmen Square uprising, and the impact of that history on one father and son. At the center: Li Tongshu, one of the few Chinese citizens ever to graduate from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is married to Vivian Knight, a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: "Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccolò Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes's one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC USUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: M USUKeck, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KECPeek, Tom
Summary: "Mauna A Novel of Hawai'i is a gripping tale of clashing passions—science and spirituality, vengeance and compassion, fear and courage—set atop Hawaiʻi’s 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, realm of revered goddesses and star-wise explorers. A young vagabond running from America’s turmoil is forced to confront his own grief and rage on an embattled holy mountain in the Pacific. There he encounters a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: All Night Books, an imprint of Easton Studio Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEESpeck, Katie.
Summary: When Mr. and Mrs. Peabody invite a guest to dinner, Maybelle the cockroach, who lives under their refrigerator, ignores the warnings of Henry the flea to be sensible and ends up "splashing" into a big adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Speck 2007Peck, Richard
Summary: "Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PECPeck, Richard
Summary: In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PECPeck, Richard.
Summary: A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 2013Peck, Richard
Summary: In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PECPeck, Richard
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PECPeck, Dale
Summary: "Written over the course of twenty-five years, the stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality. In 'Bliss', a young man befriends the convicted felon who murdered his mother when he was only a child. In 'Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore', a teenage boy fends off the advances of a five-year-old his mother babysits. And in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PECPeck, Gregory
Summary: Captain Ahab, obsessed with the whale who disfigured him, forces his tired and mutinous crew to travel the seas until they find it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBPeck, Richard
Summary: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 1998Peck, Richard
Summary: Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 2009Reck, Jared
Summary: After years of pining for the girl next door, fifteen-year-old Matthew Wainwright must deal with Tabby dating a popular senior just when he needs her most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RECCoville, Bruce
Summary: To save heavily pollulted Earth and his ailing mother, eleven-year-old Hurricane must travel to magical worlds, aboard a giant, winged tiger, to rescue the wind and other elements.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COVCarville, James.
Summary: During the Depression in the Louisiana bayou, a curious young girl helps the "Swamp Ghost" that her cousins warned her about and finds herself with one good friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CARPeck, Jan.
Summary: Captain Dare and his newly hired mates set out in search of treasure, swimming through a lagoon, swinging through a jungle, and other obstacles before finding the treasure, until a mouse frightens the Captain into retreat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PECPeck, Richard
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PeckCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PECPeck, Richard
Summary: In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 2011Peck, Dale.
Summary: Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009