Summary: The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU ZOOSummary: The timeless magic of Cinderella returns with Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1965 version of the classic tale filled with music, singing and magic. A poor and mistreated servant girl is transformed into a beautiful princess with the help of her fairy godmother, a pumpkin, a glass slipper and belief in impossible things in order to attend a lavish ball and find her prince!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CINSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Summary: One year—he'll be gone for one year and then we'll be together again and everything will be back to the way it should be. The day David left, I felt like my heart was breaking. Sure, any long–distance relationship is tough, but David was going to war—to fight, to protect, to put his life in danger. We can get through this, though. We'll talk, we'll email, we won't let anything come between us....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2012
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Summary: "A woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: Rhyming text reveals that, although baby animals are not always perfect, their mothers love them and help them through difficult moments.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Evans 2010Evans, Lezlie.
Summary: Children eagerly wait for the snow to begin to fall, and when it does, they spend a day of fun playing in it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC EVASchrank, Ben.
Summary: "[Decades ago, Peter Herman wrote a much-beloved book on marriage.] Now a widower, Peter finds himself in a new relationship and questioning his own advice. So when his publishing company decides to sponsor a contest for struggling couples-- with an afternoon of his counseling as the grand prize-- Peter must face up to truths he's struggled with for far too long" -- from publisher's web site.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCHSchrank, Ben.
Summary: Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHWalton, Leslye J. (Leslye Jo Anne)
Summary: "Generations of the Roux family have learned this lesson the hard way. Foolish love appears to be the family birthright, in fact, which casts an ominous fate for its most recent progeny: twins Ava and Henry Lavender. Henry is mute for much of his young life, and Ava -- in all other ways a normal girl -- is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WALLeckie, Ann
Summary: "Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECHermann, 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 HERLeSieg, Theo.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations briefly point out what animals have teeth, their uses, and how to care for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Summary: When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLainoff, Lillie
Summary: France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school: it is an academy for female Musketeers, socialites on the surface but dangerous, well-trained women who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAILillie, Patricia.
Summary: Each month a child adds something to an empty box, including a red foil heart in February and toasted pumpkin seeds in October.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILLemmie, Asha
Summary: "From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lemmie 2020Lillie, Patricia.
Summary: Text and pictures assign a cow to a barn, a dish to a cupboard, a family to a house, and other things to their place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LILSchreck, Karen Halvorsen
Summary: When Rose becomes a singer at a jazz club, she finds herself falling for the African American pianist and the two begin a relationship marked by prejudice and faith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHElliott, Lexie
Summary: "An exhilarating psychological suspense debut that will propel readers into the darkest edges of friendship, for fans of Fiona Barton, Clare Mackintosh, and Ruth Ware. They were six university students from Oxford--friends and sometimes more than friends--spending an idyllic week together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway...until they met Severine, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLLeSieg, Theo.
Summary: A boy imagines what it would be like if he had such things as duck feet, a whale spout, and an elephant's trunk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1965
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESLeali, Michael
Summary: "A heartfelt part-epistolary middle grade debut about one boys attempt to find himself in the history he loves--perfect for fans of Alex Gino and Julie Murphy. Amos Abernathy has been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if theres something missing from history. Someone like the two of them....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When Annabelle and Benjamin play dress-up they both want to be the bride, the ballerina, and the princess which causes a problem until the two friends realize they can both be whoever they want to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NEWNewman, Lesléa.
Summary: From the moment Donovan wakes in the morning, he painstakingly prepares for his special role in the wedding ceremony of his two mothers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2011