Tran, Trang Thanh
Summary: When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in, so if she's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TRASummary: Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ROGFraia, Emilio
Summary: "Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives, each burrowing inside a crucial turning-point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a semi-abandoned inn in the middle of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRANguyen, Trang
Summary: "A young conservationist overcomes the odds to return a sun bear to its natural habitat"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NGUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NGUThe Learning Train
Summary: Celebrate Fall and Autumn with this adorable scarecrow book perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and kids! With simple rhyming text, this book is a fantastic way to introduce children to scarecrows. This is a great book to read aloud and pair with a fun scarecrow activity. There is a coloring and cut and paste page included at the back for children to color and cut out their own scarecrow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Learning Train 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LEA (BASKET)Crain, Caleb
Summary: A deeply humane novel that explores the fate of candor, good will, and the utopian spirit in a world where technology and surveillance are weaponizing human relationships. One autumn night, as a grad student named Matthew is walking home from the subway, a handsome skateboarder catches his eye. Leif, mesmerizing and enigmatic, invites Matthew to meet his friends, who are experimenting with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRATreml, Renée
Summary: Georgie is a moose who loves to pull practical jokes on his friends, and Ollie and Bea are getting tired of his pranks, and need to figure out a way to tell him, without hurting his feelings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TRETreml, Renée
Summary: Ollie accidentally gets Bea's stuffed animal stuck up in a tree, and when he does not admit it was his fault, Bea assembles a super crew to solve the mystery and retrieve it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2022
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Summary: Ollie is an owl who wears glasses; Bea is a bunny with very big feet, and both are very self-conscious about what they see as flaws--but when they meet they help each other turn what seem at first to be problems into superpowers, and so become good friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLATreml, Renée
Summary: Bea has planned a whole day of games, but since every game is designed to give Bea the win, the other animals soon abandon her to make their own fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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Summary: Who knows blue? Roo knows blue! But does Roo know other colours too? Sing along with Roo and Possum as they practise their colours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TREFrai, Maksim
Summary: Follows the adventures of a vice-driven loafer who becomes a celebrity in a magical parallel universe for his membership in an enchanted secret agent organization and his talent for solving extravagant and imaginative cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRETreml, Renée
Summary: Ollie is excited about his party, but worried about the storm clouds gathering, so Bea tries to save the day by showing Ollie that his party will be fun no matter the weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2024
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Summary: "Ollie is having a hoot on his roller skates-but Bea is full of excuses for why she can not join in. Will Bea realize that real friends do not mind if you sometimes look silly?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TRENguyễn, Trang
Summary: Young conservationist Chang overcomes the odds to save and return an elephant to its natural habitat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC NGU (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Oral, Feridun
Summary: When Rabbit wakes up in the middle of winter looking for food, he has to rely on help from his friends to reach the only red apple hanging on a tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORATuil, Karine.
Summary: "An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a suspenseful Gatsbian tale of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUISorell, Traci
Summary: "At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORKrall, Dan
Summary: By not covering his mouth or washing his hands, Simon spreads his cold to his teacher and classmates, much to the delight of three germs named Virus, Protozoa, and Bacteria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Carol Starkey, a Los Angeles bomb squad detective who suffered permanent scarring and watched her lover/partner die in a prior detonation, embarks on a dangerous investigation into a series of explosions rocking the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol Starkey's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol. When a bomb call takes the life...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Pub. Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CRAGonzalez, Raul
Summary: Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019