Summary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACUlrich, Philip
Summary: For centuries the bears of Haven have lived quiet lives, high in the mountains at the edge of the great Precipice. That all changes for a young cub named Growly when he receives a mysterious message. With just his backpack and glider, Growly sets out on a desperate journey to find his grandfather's long lost friend ... and to find a way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Here We Go Productions 2013
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Summary: Growly's adventure has taken him far from home in search of C.J., his grandfather's long-lost friend who disappeared over The Precipice. Now, the desperate quest continues as Growly, Chippy, and Tully find themselves facing a journey across the Ocean. In a makeshift sailboat, Growly and his friends embark on their greatest adventure yet. It is a journey that will take them to far-off lands and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Here We Go Productions 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ULREmrich, Alisha
Summary: Ramona Lambert's best friend has moved away; her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay; and she is pretty sure her crush has no idea she exists. Her cosplay character, Rel, gives her the confidence and freedom she lacks in real life. When she decides to strike up an email conversation with her crush, Caleb Wolfe, from her cosplay account in the hopes getting to know him, the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMRSummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
Summary: "Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOSOlsen, Susan Ulrich.
Summary: A young eagle has great difficulties in his abilities to land properly only to discover that he is nearsighted. His father then devises a way to help Elmer learn to land safely by gathering his friends who then dump sacks of snow on the mountain peaks so that Elmer would feel the cold and know it would be safe for landing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mindset Press 2000
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Summary: Equipped with a magic flute, Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to retrieve her daughter from the clutches of evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2019
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Summary: When a homesick college freshman attends a party, he spends the night with his sophomore RA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mpi Media Group 2021
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Summary: Bob Patterson considers himself an Everyman--albeit an Everyman with a rich, beautiful wife, two good kids, and a mail-it-in job that ignores his law degree. Despite his good fortune, Bob is idling through life, bored at work and at home. In short, he is the proverbial Coaster. Bob's wife, Sarah, is the anointed heir to the empire built by her father, Sam, a kind of Kansas City, Missouri,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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Summary: "Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor's escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned Atticus’s great grandmother—they encounter both mundane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUFSummary: The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: The love between wealthy Oliver Barrett IV and working-class beauty Jenny Cavilleri allows them to overcome their differences, but cannot help them when tragedy strikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGGonzalez, 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
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Summary: An aspiring writer receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021
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Summary: "The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son -- the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel -- is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTRakoff, Joanna Smith
Summary: Like The Group, Mary McCarthy's classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff 's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAKAldrich, Bess Streeter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aeonian Press 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDAldrich, Bess Streeter
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1985
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Summary: Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1983
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Summary: "Pulled by literary ambitions in one direction and her heart strings in another, young Laura Deal of Nebraska, tries to ignore her liking for dependable Allan Rinemiller. This tale of the second and third generations of a pioneer family, while perhaps too deliberately patterned gives careful attention to its setting and has a popular appeal through its sentiment, romance and happy ending." N Y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALDRuff, Matt
Summary: John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Arrested for murder, Jane Charlotte tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil. Her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons, "Bad Monkeys" for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she's lying, crazy, or playing a different game...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007