Kovály, Heda
Summary: "In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOVBelleza, Rhoda.
Summary: It does not necessarily take a fist to create a punch in the gut. This fourteen-story YA fiction anthology delves into the experience of being bulliedsocially, emotionally, physically, psychologically, and sexually. The school hallways, walks home, and house walls are no longer the boundaries for intimidation and harassment. With the rapid-fire response time of social media and smartphones,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2012
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Warrington, Freda
Summary: "A painting, depicting haunting scenes of a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, arrives unheralded in an art gallery with a cryptic note saying, "The world needs to see this." The painting begins to change the lives of the woman who is the gallery's curator and that of an ancient man of the fey Aetherial folk who has mysteriously risen from the depths of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARThiede, Emily
Summary: Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessa's gift from the gods is supposed to magnify a partner's magic, not kill every suitor she touches. Now, with only weeks left until a hungry swarm of demons devours everything on her island home, Alessa is running out of time to find a partner and stop the invasion. When a powerful priest convinces the faithful that killing Alessa is the island's only hope,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THIBybee, Veeda
Summary: When nine-year-old Li, her mother, and brother Puck arrive from China at Angel Island immigration center in 1921, Li fears she will be deported for failing the tests. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BYBOjeda, Daniel
Summary: "Babia tiene diecisiete años, una guitarra, un gato que se llama Mousse de chocolate y unos cuantos kilos de más que el resto del mundo se empeña en recordarle."--From publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roca Editorial 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPAWarrington, Freda
Summary: A young woman studying art at a vast country estate near the site where a child was snatched by fairies decades earlier stumbles onto the portal to the Otherworld through which a handsome, charming, and innocent young man emerges and captures her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARPurdie, Kathryn
Summary: "The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two fortune-telling cards that spell an untimely death for 17-year-old Clara. Despite the ever-present warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara embarks on a dangerous journey into the deadly Forest Grimm to procure a magical book—Sortes Fortunae, the Book of Fortunes—with the power to reverse the curse on her village and save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PURHeder, Thyra
Summary: "Sal loves the water. All day, he thinks about it: being out there, just him and the waves, alone. More than anything else, he wants a boat. And he knows just what it would look like. So he decides to build it himself. It isn't long before everyone in town starts sharing advice. But Sal doesn't need their help. He knows just what he's building. And he does it! Except...he forgets one crucial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Tsukune, an average teenager trying to get accepted to a high school, finds that there is something strange about the students at Monster High, where the turf war is waged between vampires and werewolves instead of jocks and nerds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROSRueda, Claudia
Summary: In this interactive picture book, the reader must help Bunny stay on course as he skies down the slope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RUEVerde, Susan
Summary: A boy runs, jumps, and soars through his day, stopping briefly to refuel before zipping and zooming back to his fun, in a book that celebrates the seemingly boundless energy of children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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Summary: Told from the perspective of both the girl, Nia, and her pet turtle, Alfie, and describes what happens when he disappears on the eve of her seventh birthday to find her a special present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEDHeder, Thyra
Summary: Sophie is uninterested in writing a research report on polar bears until a polar bear named Olafur swoops her away to the Arctic, where she learns all about the playful bear's habits and habitat, from glacier mice to Northern Lights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2015
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Summary: Bunny goes sailing on the sea, and the reader is invited to follow instructions to blow wind into his sails, rock the boat, and guess what Bunny will see next as he explores undersea life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUESummary: Collects twelve short stories about the Disney princesses, including Moana, Belle, Pocahontas, Tiana, and Snow White.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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Summary: In this interactive picture book, the reader must help Bunny as he gathers apples to eat, and uses his red scarf to climb a tree or create a rope bridge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RUERueda, Claudia
Summary: In this fairy tale mixup, the Three Bears get an unexpected visit from Redlocks (otherwise known as Little Red Riding Hood) who has fled her book to get away from the wolf--and the Bears, with some help from the Three Little Pigs, need to mediate betweenRedlocks and the misunderstood wolf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUERueda, Claudia.
Summary: A polar bear reassures a cub by describing what a polar bear is and does, and promising to lovingly teach such necessary skills as hunting and walking securely on ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUELim, Thea
Summary: "In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical plan--time travel has been invented in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMStilton, Thea
Summary: When Thea Stilton travels to Ireland to search for a missing agent, she finds that the whole fantasy Land of Erin is being threatened by earthquakes, and soon Will Mystery and the Thea sisters follow to help her find the secret of the fairies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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Summary: "The Thea Sisters are headed to Italy for a ballet competition! But the mouselets aren't just there to dance -- they are there to investigate. A group is plotting to rig the prestigious contest, and the future of their new friend -- an aspiring ballerina -- is at stake! Can the Thea Sisters stop this scheme before it's too late?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A lion cub is kidnapped while the Thea Sisters visit a Kenyan safari, and they must travel across the savanna to rescue him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIStilton, Thea
Summary: " While on vacation in Greece, the Thea Sisters make friends with a company of actors who are rehearsing for a play that's about to open. When an actress sprains her ankle, Colette ends up standing in for her! But suddenly, right before the performance, the lead actor goes missing. Can the mouselets find him in time for the show to go on?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014