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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIBusby, Ailie
Summary: Join Fox as he prepares a magnificent tea party for all his friends in this perfect first counting book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Frontier Publishing USA 2020
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Summary: "Watch out on your next walk through the forest, because you just might encounter a real rapscallion in the form of a tiny bird! In this hilarious tale, Chickadee recounts how he went from a normal bird 'childhood' to a daring life of crime. One cold, snowy morning, shivering and hungry, he discovers a vault of gold -- and steals from it! His natural colouring resembling a mask helps him blend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILRuby, Ilie.
Summary: Raised by a mother who follows the cycles of the ocean and moon, sisters Ruthie and Dolly confront the social and sexual mores of their Long Beach, California home in the 1970s while Ruthie hides the truth about her young daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUBSummary: The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLUBusby, Ailie
Summary: Children describe their favorite things to do during the summer, from picnics on the beach to playing in a summer rain shower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's Play (International) Ltd 2018
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Summary: Children describe their favorite things to do during the spring, from listening to singing birds to planting seeds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's Play (International) Ltd 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD BUSBusby, Ailie
Summary: There's something special about each season of the year, wherever we live in the world. Follow the children in this book as they discover and explore the unique character of winter, through indoor and outdoor play. Sensory, detailed and engaging, this is the perfect introduction for young children to the cycles of the year. -- Back cover. En cualquier parte del mundo en que vivamos, cada...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Join a cast of lovable animals as they make music on instruments from A to Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD BUSSalih, Zak
Summary: "Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian-both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence-spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALSilvey, Craig.
Summary: A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Virtanen, Ville
Summary: Follows Detective Inspector Kari Sorjonen as he investigates murders in a small border town between Finland and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV BORCash, Dixie.
Summary: "The Domestic Equalizers are back, in a new hilarious Southern tale from the ever-popular Dixie Cash"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon A 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASNontshokweni, Sihle
Summary: Wanda visits the hair salon, but when Aunty Ada wants to straighten Wanda's hair instead of giving her the style she wants, Wanda and her new friend Nkiruka come up with a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NONJames, Syrie.
Summary: Discovering a letter written by Jane Austen inside of an old book, Samantha investigates the letter's suggestions about a possible undiscovered manuscript and searches the historical home of handsome Anthony Whitaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSilber, Joan
Summary: "One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILSummary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALLapid, Lihie
Summary: Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the table, Nina, a beautiful and restless teenager, vows her life will be different. When a strapping older man in a fancy car appears at school one day offering her luxuries her single mother cannot afford, Nina believes he's her ticket out of her dumpy little town. Ignoring the danger signs and her mother's constant pleas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMylie, Charlie
Summary: When a field mouse discovers that his friend is sick in bed, he is determined to make her feel better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYLO'Neal, Eilis.
Summary: Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia's led a privileged life at court. But everything changes when it's revealed, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection. Cast out with little more than the clothes on her back, the girl now called Sinda must leave behind the city of Vivaskari,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EgmontUSA 2011
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Silvis, Randall
Summary: What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SILSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: Class, cultural and sexual differences are explored in this drama about a thirty-year-old gay man returning to his homeland of Tunisia after the death of his father. His over-bearing mother wishes him to stay and get married, but he meets and falls in love with the handyman. Islamic mores, a class-conscious society and his ever-present mother theaten their burgeoning relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TLA Releasing 2010