Meyer, Marissa
Summary: A collection of Lunar chronicles stories explore how Cinder arrived in New Beijing, how Wolf became a brooding soldier, and when Princess Winter and Jacin realized their destinies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYGabriel, Marius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992
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Summary: Thirty years after the end of World War II, Francine Lawrence, a wealthy, half-Chinese businesswoman, is forced to confront her past, when a young woman claiming to be her daughter, Ruth, given away to preserve the child's life, returns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABMarias, Javier
Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARZusak, Markus.
Summary: Before THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe Brothers: THE UNDERDOG, FIGHTING RUBEN WOLFE, and GETTING THE GIRL. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, and generally disappointing girls, their parents, and their much more motivated older siblings. They're intensely loyal to each other, brothers at their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Summary: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC ZUSGarcia Marquez, Gabriel
Summary: In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Garcia 2003Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Contents: No one writes to the colonel.--Big Mama's funeral: Tuesday siesta. One of these days. There are no thieves in this town. Balthazar's marvelous afternoon. Montiel's widow. One day after Sunday. Artificial roses. Big Mama's funeral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARMontes, Marisa.
Summary: When their parents are killed in an accident, eleven-year-old Javier and his younger brother leave their home in Puerto Rico to go live with their aunt in Northern California, where a ghost from an unsolved crime and Javi's new-found psychokinetic powers make their adjustment all the harder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC 17.00Silver, Marisa.
Summary: The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the Southern California desert. It is a desolate, forgotten place, whose inhabitants thrive amidst seemingly impossible circumstances. Where birds fly by day across the desert sky, by night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILVestita, Marisa
Summary: It’s a big day for little Terri: she’s supposed to spread her wings and fly. But Terri’s scared of heights. “I DON’T WANT TO FLY!” she cries. But with her friends gathered round her, all opening their arms as wide as they can, will Terri feel ready to take the leap . . . and soar?
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2018
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Summary: In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression.--P. [2] of jkt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2013
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Summary: When Trixie suddenly yells “HELP!,” all her dinosaur friends wonder what’s going on. Has she hurt herself? No—she’s just scared of a tiny ladybug. Can her friends convince her to face her fears, stop running away, and play with the friendly bug? Soon Trixie learns that you don’t always have to be afraid of something new.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2018
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Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2007
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Zusak, Markus.
Summary: Meet Ed Kennedy--underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he's hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first Ace arrives. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. . . Chosen to care,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2007
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Zusak, Markus.
Summary: Presents three novels in which two brothers, Ruben and Cameron Wolfe, strive to overcome the limitations of their family's poverty, taking jobs as fighters, and Cameron, the younger brother, tries to find love with his brother's ex-girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZUSEller, Marissa
Summary: Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy, finds solace in baking and watching the Food Network to cope with her illness and social anxiety, but when she meets a cute classmate with the same juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, she must decide whether to maintain a façade or be brave and let go in their budding romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ELLMeyer, Marissa
Summary: Adalheid Castle is in chaos. Following a shocking turn of events, Serilda finds herself ensnared in a deadly game of make-believe with the Erlking, who is determined to propel her deeper into the castle's lies. Meanwhile, Serilda is determined to work with Gild to help him solve the mystery of his forgotten name and past. But soon it becomes clear that the Erlking doesnt only want to use...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Relates the story of Queen Levana, a ruler who uses her "glamour" to gain power, before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Princess Winter, the stepdaughter of the wicked Queen Levana, joins Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress to defeat the Queen and restore Cinder--aka Selene--as the rightful ruler of Luna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world, in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYMeyer, Marissa.
Summary: Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood friend--the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015