Ruge, Eugen

Summary: An enthralling story of an East German family through the long years of communism and its aftermath, this novel flows both back and forth in time, creating a panoramic view of a family's saga and a country that has vanished into memory and history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Schiffman, Jay

Summary: Max Cone is a renowned military commander and judge, but all he really wants is a life outside politics. When one leader gives Cone a powerful device that predicts the future, he doesn't want to believe the prophecy: that the world will soon end, and he is to blame. Soon after, his wife and children are taken, his allies are killed, and his friends are imprisoned. With the world descenting into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

Summary: Jan, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well as the love of the pastor, Anna, and her little boy, Jens. But his past...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRO

Hagen, Pal Sverre

Summary: Determined to prove a theory, explorer Thor Heyerdahl leads the Kon-Tiki expedition as he and his crew travel from South America and Polynesia on a raft made from balsa wood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2013

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Kim, Eugenia (Eugenia SunHee)

Summary: "From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIM

Ragen, Naomi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1989

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAG

Degen, Bruce.

Summary: A little boy walking in the forest meets a big lovable bear that takes him on a delicious berry-picking adventure in the magical world of Berryland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1983

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Degan 1983

Ragen, Naomi

Summary: "In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story between newly observant California-girl Leah and ultra-Orthodox widower Yaakov from An Unorthodox Match. From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAG

Summary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAP

Augel, William

Summary: "Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, his sister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces.Based...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BIG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC AUG

Eager, Edward.

Summary: When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAG

Kagen, Lesley.

Summary: During a sweltering 1960 Milwaukee heat wave, Sally O'Malley struggles with the trauma of her father's sudden death and her sister Troo's possible role in a string of burglaries, an escape from a reform school, and an orphan's disappearance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011

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Ragen, Naomi.

Summary: " In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Outen, Karen

Summary: "A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't alloweda goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OUT

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Ragen, Naomi

Summary: A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife's life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually. Lola is a woman from the secular world who has suffered terrible tragedy and hardship in her life. To find her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAG

Burdick, Eugene.

Summary: The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1962

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Field, Eugene

Summary: A classic lullaby poem about three fishermen who try to catch the stars in nets of silver and gold.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.4 FIE

Yelchin, Eugene

Summary: In this wordless story, a hare and a young girl spring up from a trampoline and take an imaginary journey through the clouds into outer space.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017

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Dekko, Espen

Summary: Paws, an old, faithful dog, dreams about the rabbits he used to chase, while he spends his last moments with his devoted young boy, Edward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEK

Price, Eugenia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 1985

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRI

Dugan, Alan.

Summary: In this complete collection that tracks his 40-year career and its shifting concerns, Alan Dugan adds to his legend with nearly three dozen new poems. Dugan spent World War II in the Army Air Corps, and several of his early poems are wry testaments to the somber business of modern warfare. Others plumb the depths of existential angst with bracing black humor and brio. Poems Seven: New &...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DUG

Dugan, Jennifer

Summary: "An openly gay track star falls for a closeted, bisexual teen beauty queen with a penchant for fixing up old cars"-- Morgan, an elite track athlete, is forced to transfer high schools late in her senior year after it turns out being queer is against her private Catholic school's code of conduct. She meets Ruby, who has two hobbies: tinkering with her baby blue 1970 Ford Torino and competing in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUG

Eager, Edward.

Summary: Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999

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