Moebius
Summary: "Actively exploring his storytelling methods within his own mind, Moebius draws himself encountering his favorite characters in an expansive desert setting. He interacts with Arzak, Blueberry, Stel, Atan, and others--and he also meets a younger version of himself!A self-reflective six-part study, Inside Moebius Part 2 collects the two middle chapters in this hilariously unique exploration of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MOESchmitz, James H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchmitt, Gerry
Summary: On a frozen night in an affluent neighborhood of Minneapolis, a baby is abducted from her home after her teenage babysitter is violently assaulted. The parents are frantic, the police are baffled, and, with the perpetrator already in the wind, the trail is getting colder by the second. As family liaison officer with the Minneapolis P.D., it’s Afton Tangler’s job to deal with the emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCollins, Olive
Summary: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics, neglecting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2019
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Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLGanz-Schmitt, Sue.
Summary: A young child imagines going off to Kindergarten as a journey to another planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PLASchlitz, Laura Amy.
Summary: Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile--a crocodile who does not behave properly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PRIBliven, Julie
Summary: A quiet boy, called too shy, notices objects that might also be labelled shy, from the slow-rising sun to seedlings slow to sprout, and shows that in the right situation, he is not quiet or shy at all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLIClover, Andrew
Summary: Ten-year-old Rory Branagan teams up with his neighbor, Cassidy Corrigan, and canine sidekick, Wilkins Welkin, to investigate his father's disappearance seven years before, but first gets caught up in neighborhood mysteries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLOBoehm, Deborah Boliver.
Contents: The Samurai goodbye -- The fire down below -- An itching in the heart -- The beast in the mirror -- Hungry ghosts in love -- The undead of Uguisudani -- The snake spell -- Naked in the moonlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOEPoliner, Elizabeth
Summary: Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLSchlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile--a crocodile who does not behave properly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Schlitz 2017Schlitz, Laura Amy.
Summary: When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Schlitz 2010Schlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed--the curse of all highborn girls--but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHSchlitz, Laura Amy.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SCHSchlitz, Laura Amy.
Summary: When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHSchlitz, Laura Amy.
Summary: When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witchwith a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHDunrea, Olivier
Summary: Gemma is a small yellow gosling who likes to explore and her little brother Gus likes to follow her, but one day, Gus sets out to explore on his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE DUNDunrea, Olivier
Summary: While enjoying his solitary trek through the barnyard, Gus the gosling finds three small eggs that could possibly hold his perfect companions inside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE DUNDunrea, Olivier.
Summary: Gideon is a small gosling who likes to play so much that he will not stop to take a nap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E DUNDunrea, Olivier.
Summary: On Christmas Eve, Ollie and the other goslings anxiously await the arrival of Father Christmas Goose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JBR ORANGE DUNOlivas, Silvia
Summary: Elena and Naomi organize a dig for lost treasure and uncover a few unexpected surprises along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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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 SCHBlake, Olivie
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022