Lichtman, Johannes
Summary: Prompted by his drug addiction and latest dismissal to relocate to 2015 Sweden, creative-writing instructor Jonas Anderson volunteers to teach Swedish to Middle Eastern refugees, including one who challenges his views about making a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LICJohannes, Shelley
Summary: Operation Upside has grown to a team of three: Beatrice, her best friend Lenny, and her mysterious neighbor Sam. With several successful missions under their belts, the trio is preparing for another great week when the unthinkable occurs--an impostor delivers an imitation Upside Award! As Beatrice hunts for clues to the culprit, Lenny suspects one of their own. Will they solve the mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2020
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Summary: "A young child tries to measure the size of her joy and the depth of her gratitude as she embraces the beauty of the day.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JOHLichtman, Johannes
Summary: Shortly after his thirtieth birthday in 2018, John Turner accepts a job offer from an old college friend to move to Ukraine to teach customer service agents there how to sound American, but with no knowledge of the language and struggling to understand the culture and customs, he finds himself in a romantic entanglement with disastrous consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LICAnyuru, Johannes
Summary: "With echoes of Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, and anti-immigrant hysteria, this remarkably intense, beautifully wrought tale combines the ingenuity of speculative fiction with the difficulties of today's harsh political realities" -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lines Press 2019
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Summary: Beatrice is afraid she is losing her best friend so she uses her topsy-turvy way of thinking to get things looking up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
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Summary: "Beatrice Zinker's Operation Upside is finally in full swing, but when her overenthusiasm puts the mission in jeopardy, she'll have to do her best to lie low for awhile--which, for Beatrice, is not going to be easy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney HYPERION 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JOHChild, Lee
Summary: Collects six short stories and three novellas featuring Jack Reacher, including "Too Much Time," in which Reacher witnesses a bag-snatching while in a small town in Maine, but there is more to the simple crime and it could prove fatal.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHISchell, Orville
Summary: "A uniquely experienced observer of China now gives us a novel that recounts the familiar but still mesmerizing events from the rise of Mao to the Tiananmen Square uprising, and the impact of that history on one father and son. At the center: Li Tongshu, one of the few Chinese citizens ever to graduate from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is married to Vivian Knight, a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SCHSchine, Cathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REVBinder, Hannes
Summary: "Hunting hat, smoking pipe, coat collar turned up-- that's how we know Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective of all time. He usually investigates from London's Baker Street. But Holmes' most spectacular case leads him in a fast-paced chase from the metropolis of London across the continent to the Swiss Alps. At the roaring Reichenbach Falls there is a showdown between Holmes and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BINSchmid, Paul.
Summary: Nervous about the first day of school, Oliver brings an alligator to school for protection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCHSummary: In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A little dinosaur who loves using big, impressive vocabulary is initially misunderstood by classmates at a new school, before reassurance by new friends helps him realize that there are other ways to make connections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHSchmid, Paul.
Summary: Petunia so desperately wants a pet skunk that she refuses to believe her parents when they say skunks stink.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: When Oliver finds an egg, he imagines the amazing adventures they will have together, in a text with liftable flaps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SCHSchimmel, Schim
Summary: An old Monarch butterfly passes along his wisdom about the earth's animals to a young caterpillar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SchimmelSmith Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHJohannes, Shelli R.
Summary: "My name is Glitter Poop and I'm here to show you in nine secret steps how to be a UNICORN. Warning: It's not always easy being a unicorn. Unicorns are special and totally uni-que. We have crazy names, know how to stand out in a herd, love to ask questions, and always search for the bright side. Most importantly, we make our own magic!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "A New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a "Clothing Optional Resort" in California. A nerdy high schooler has her first sexual experience at geology camp. A young woman fundraises for a social-media savvy cancer patient whose circle of supporters grows increasingly obsessive. A college student, the night of her father's funeral, watches an old video of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHLa Valley, Josanne.
Summary: Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself and her family despite her father's opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAVSchine, Cathleen
Summary: "The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013