Barbash, Tom
Summary: This collection of stories explores the many ways people try to connect to each other and the world around them, from a newly single mother who interferes with her son's love life to a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 0000
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Summary: An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination. It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: In turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe where women are denied higher education, Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YENBarber, Barbara E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBambara, Toni Cade.
Summary: Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMCastro Urío, Bàrbara
Summary: One-by-one twelve colorful cats, viewed through die-cut holes, return to the big white house, and settle down to sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD CASGarbera, Katherine.
Summary: Media magnate Tristan Sabina is a charmer whose talents have not gone unnoticed by his assistant Sheri. Following a night of shared passion, the two are bombarded by the paparazzi. Now to stave off scandal, Tristan has asked Sheri to play the role of his fiancée--a part she is only too willing to throw herself into.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GARBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2008
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Summary: Two girls from France and Italy who possess uncanny respective abilities to communicate with nature and perform music at a preternatural level come into contact with magical and malevolent forces before meeting each other in world-changing ways. "An inspiring literary fantasy about two gifted girls from the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Life of Elves sings of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2016
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Summary: The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2008
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Barbery, Muriel
Summary: A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2009
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Summary: Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARLindgren, Barbro.
Summary: A toddler and his cat clash over who gets to play with the ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1983
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Summary: Sam and Doggie have a disagreement about Sam's cookie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1982
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Summary: Doggie rescues Sam's beloved Teddy Bear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1982
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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Summary: Detective Inspector Charlie Peace and his wife, Felicity, are shocked when Felicity's difficult dad, Rupert Coggenhoe, suddenly announces he's moving north to their Yorkshire village. Felicity has never much liked her father, and to have him as a near-neighbor fills her with foreboding. The boorish old man has always loved to impress the ladies, young and old, by exaggerating his modest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnard, Sara
Summary: When her best friend runs away with a teacher, Eden is forced to question her friendship and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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Summary: Seventeen mystery stories feature everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARContents: Scooby-Doo! Camp scare -- Scooby-Doo and the monster of Mexico -- Aloha Scooby-Doo -- Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Olasky, Marvin N.
Summary: In the year 2048, the hopes of genetic engineering of humans has faded but advancements have come in the development of bumans - half-animal, half-human - through uniting human embryos with those of the most promising of the five species of Great Apes, the bonobos. Corporations see use for these new creations as well as the profitable and powerful porn syndicates. Others wrestle with deeper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingstone Comics 2011
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Barnard, Robert.
Summary: Yorkshire detective Charlie Peace visits an art colony full of quirky individuals as he investigates the murder of a street artist. By the author of A Little Local Murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001