Summary: Four young people fall in and out of love (and sex) with each other while figuring out their lives in Paris. Emilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - they're friends, sometimes lovers and often both. --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARFontaine, Valérie
Summary: "The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.829 FONFisher, Valorie.
Summary: This book covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes, colors, and seasons and uses bright photos of retro toys to illustrate these topics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FISValério, Geraldo
Summary: "On a dull gray day, a boy puts his dog on a leash and they walk to a shimmering pond where snowy white swans swim freely. One of the swans invites the boy and dog for a ride. They climb on its back and sail into a stunningly beautiful landscape, dotted with wildflowers, spoonbills and ibises. Foxes, rabbits and deer appear in this paradise, then butterflies and even bigger, more beautiful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VALBlackman, Malorie
Summary: Sephy is a Cross- dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought- pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing. But he dreams of a better life.Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. But this is love story that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASchumann, Katrin
Summary: At twenty-four, Katie Gregory feels like life is looking up: she's snagged a great job in New York City and is falling for a captivating artist--and memories of her traumatic past are finally fading. Katie's life fell apart almost a decade earlier, during an idyllic summer at her family's cabin on Eagle Lake when her best friend accused her father of sexual assault. Throughout his trial and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHFisher, Valorie.
Summary: "From dressing oneself to mastering colors, patterns, and even making the bed, Fisher's encouraging book balances the known and the new."--Publishers Weekly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FISSelkowe, Valrie M.
Summary: Danny Duck needs something to take to a "green" contest at a spring party and surprises himself by what he actually takes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SELLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Luiselli 2019Valerio, Geraldo
Summary: A little girl falls asleep, her book in hand, and as she dreams an astonishing adventure unfolds. This wordless picture book celebrates the joy and freedom that can be found in stories, dreams and the imagination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VALHesse, Hermann
Summary: A classic of modern literature, The Journey to the East is a profound rendering of the struggle between faith and despair. The hero, identified only as H.H., recounts a fantastic spiritual and geographic pilgrimage he took years ago with the League, a secret society whose members include the likes of Paul Klee, Mozart, and Baudelaire. Traversing both time and space, the pilgrims come across...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESManfredi, Valerio.
Summary: The story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan plain who have worked the land since time immemorial, and the homeless multitudes, travelers, and tinkers roaming Europe during the hardscrabble nineteen twenties and thirties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANWicker, Valeria
Summary: Inspired by a visit to an art museum, Raven sets out to create a masterpiece but her discarded mistakes start stalking her, teaching her to accept her imperfections.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1976
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Summary: "Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUIHesse, Hermann
Summary: Dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent, led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian, into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood. mike.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC HESHesse, Hermann
Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESGorbachev, Valeri
Summary: "Running through town to get a pizza for himself and his mother, Pinky unwittingly becomes covered in snow; now everyone thinks he is a walking snowman!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GORGorbachev, Valeri.
Summary: When Christopher Rabbit learns to count in school, he enjoys it so much that he counts everything in sight, including how many baskets his friends make when they play basketball and how many peas and carrots are on his plate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GORGorbachev, Valeri.
Summary: Two little chickens are worried about their first day of school and hope they will make new friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GORGorbachev, Valeri.
Summary: After hearing a bedtime story about penguins, Turtle dresses as a penguin for school and soon the entire class is having a penguin day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GORHermann, Nellie
Summary: Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when Ruby is ten, her eldest brother enters the hospital and emerges as someone she barely recognizes. It is only the first in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHesse, Hermann
Summary: In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESGorbachev, Valeri.
Summary: On their first visit to a playground, two little chickens are afraid to play until a beaver helps them go down the slide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2001