Newman, Lesléa
Summary: Inside the house, a boy prepares for the Passover ritual of welcoming Elijah--meanwhile, outside the house, a kitten lingers in the cold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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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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Summary: Little Bunny learns to overcome his fear of the dark from his friends, the Moon and the stars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: minedtion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORASummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMDuval, Kathy.
Summary: After taking a walk on Christmas Eve while their freshly baked gingerbread cools, Papa, Mama, and Baby Bear arrive home to encounter another "trespasser," who does not have golden hair but wears a red suit and leaves presents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2005
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE DUVPamuk, Orhan
Summary: Awaiting the arrival of her grandchildren in her home outside Istanbul, bed-ridden widow Fatma shares memories and grievances with her late husband's illegitimate son until his cousin, a right-wing nationalist, involves the family in the Turkish military coup of 1980.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: Never before published in English, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980. In a crumbling mansion in Cennethisar (formerly a fishing village, now a posh resort near Istanbul) the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Pamuk, Orhan
Summary: A novel on Turkey featuring a group of students infatuated with a book. One of them has even abandoned his studies to make copies by hand so others can share it. It is never made clear what the book contains, but while the young are enthusiastic their elders think the contents are degenerate, another example of foreign influence ruining the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997
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Summary: Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he’d hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul—“the center of the world”—and is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father’s trade, selling boza (a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Summary: Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International/Vintage Books 2006
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Summary: After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION PamukOram, Hiawyn
Summary: Greedy Greenbackboy enlists Snowboy's help in cutting down all the trees and catching all the fish in return for ka-ching, but after a terrible storm Snowboy realizes they have devastated the land and he asks the Ice Troopers and Polar Bear King for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: "A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria--the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire--located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: "On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before, not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAMZommer, Yuval
Summary: Dive and drift with Little Turtle as he embarks on an undersea adventure and discovers all sorts of marine life. Packed with Yuval Zommer's gorgeous illustrations, tons of creatures to spot and fun onomatopoeia words to read out loud, this chunky board book is perfect for any child who loves the sea. Join Turtle for a swim around the ocean, and meet ten species of sea life, from flying fish to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2024
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Summary: To the amusement of Midnight the cat, Dog sets out to prove that he deserves a more exciting name and discovers the importance of being happy with his own identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998
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Summary: Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Summary: The rivalry between father and son professors of Talmudic studies comes to a head when the father is slated to receive Israel's most prestigious national award for his work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOOZommer, Yuval
Summary: "Follow a baby snail on a slow and slimy trail around the garden to discover a world of insects"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2024
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Summary: A small, crooked evergreen tree is sad and lonely when the other trees are cut down to be taken indoors at Christmas, but new friends help him feel special, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: "Sharply observed, beautifully rendered stories about gender, sexuality, and nationality by a fresh new voice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORIWei, Opal
Summary: "The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. Maybe it's her unsuccessful research, maybe it's burnout. But when a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting--and disarmingly handsome--visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2024