Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIFSummary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Chick encourages all the other animals to get some sleep by giving them all good-night kisses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MACMarz, Ron.
Summary: "During a ceremony to celebrate the Skytrain connecting to the Skylands to the Cloudbreak Islands, the train is stolen by a gang of gear trolls and it's up to Jawbreaker to save the day. Meanwhile, Cynder meets a fairy named Calliope after winning a tournament" --From the Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARMarko, Cyndi
Summary: "Treasure fever has hit Winkelfuss! A recently discovered map alleges that many years earlier, Cap'n Gnawface the Meanie buried her loot somewhere on the island, but anyone tries to find it will be cursed by pirate ghosts. A "golden smudge" will appear on the cursed--and then the treasure-seeker will be ghost-napped! Certain it's just a silly story, the greedy residents go after the booty, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Page cutouts and short descriptions give clues to familiar Halloween characters hiding in the pages of this rhyming story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CARMarr, Andrew
Summary: As the United Kingdom decides whether or not to remain a member of the European Union or go its own way in September of 2017, a group of ruthless killers will stop at nothing to keep a shocking secret at the very heart of the government that could change everything in an instant from being revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARHalter, Marek.
Summary: Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign-born wives, Lilah rebels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HALWolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: Alice Brill struggles to come to terms with the hidden truths of her life--her unrealized aspirations as a writer, her lackadaisical marriage, her troubled younger son, and her father, who is slipping into senility in a nursing home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOLHalter, Marek.
Summary: The story of Sarah-and of history itself-begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord,Sarah is raised in great luxury, but balks at the arranged marriage her father has plannned for her. The groom is handsome and a nobleman, but on their wedding day, Sarah panics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Marr, Melissa
Summary: A mother makes her baby feel safe by sharing how all kinds of mama animals care for their little ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Marr, Melissa.
Summary: Aislinn and Seth struggle with the unforeseen consequences of Aislinn's transformation from mortal girl to faery queen as the world teeters on the brink of cataclysmic violence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMarr, Melissa.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARLark, Sarah
Summary: "In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a refugee camp in Persia, where the days ahead hold only darkness. When they hear that orphans are being selected for relocation to New Zealand, Helena is filled with hope--until the officials say they have a place only for her younger sister. On the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LARMarz, Ron
Summary: "When the students arrive at Skylanders Academy without their pilot, Tessa and Cali search for Flynn. Along the way, they rescue an academy student. Will the girls find Flynn? And what does the student have to do with Kaos?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARMarz, Ron.
Summary: "While on a mission with Trigger Happy, Bouncer, and Night Shift, Blades is so eager to takedown Machine Magus that he leaves his team behind to fight the boss alone. Meanwhile, Hex pulls a fairy named Calliope onstage to help her with a magic trick" --From the Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Wolitzer, Meg
Summary: Max's room has his name all over it--on his blanket and night light and wall. His parents call him The One and Only Max. And so, he is in for a big surprise at the playground one day, when he hears "Max, time to go home!" and two other kids come running. He's not the one and only after all! How many Maxes are in the world?! Millions of Maxes? But when he decides to help one of the other Maxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOLWolitzer, Meg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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Summary: From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata -the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group (USA), Inc. 2011
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMarko, Cyndi
Summary: Superheroes Kung Pow Chicken and Egg Drop must stop the evil Birdbrain from zapping the smartest chickens in Fowladelphia into zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MARMarko, Cyndi
Summary: Gordon Blue and his brother Benny, unlikely superheroes, must save Fowladelphia from Granny Goosebumps, who has filled the city with cookies that cause innocent chickens' feathers to fall off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014