Ishiguro, Kazuo
Summary: A couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ISHFollett, Ken
Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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Summary: A clever crow leads Max to the underground site where his mother and the other kidnapped women are being kept, alive but asleep, behind a glass wall--then when he returns to the surface and is set upon by demons, the crow comes to his rescue, a new ally in his war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC VARNielsen-Fernlund, Susin
Summary: Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NIEDewdney, Anna
Summary: Entering a school talent show, Llama Llama observes his friends diligently practicing for their respective performances while trying to figure out what he wants to do for his own act, in a skill-building leveled reader based on an episode of the hit animated series.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEWBrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "This WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROBean, Jonathan
Summary: "An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bean 2013Scottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as best friends, despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoing a novelist, Marco a handsome cyclist with a secret, and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy. Soon their friendship ripens to romance, and Marco and Sandro vie to win Elisabetta. Meanwhile war threatens the world, and Mussolini leads Italy down a dark path. Harsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCOFollett, Ken
Summary: "The spinning jenny, a device that reduced the amount of work required to produce cloth, was patented in 1770 and a new era of industry changed lives everywhere. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a young man unexpectedly inherits a failing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOLScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCOFrancis-Sharma, Lauren
Summary: "In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendaon quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRASmith, April
Summary: "An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2014Slouka, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLOEisdorfer, Erica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISRegan, Katy
Summary: About a Boy meets Parenthood in this smart, big-hearted love story about a family for whom everything changed one night, a decade ago, and the young boy who unites them all. Ten-year-old Zac Hutchinson collects facts: octopuses have three hearts, Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth . But no one will tell him the one thing he wants to know most: who his father is and where he went. When Zac's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REGKorman, Gordon
Summary: Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORGorbachev, Valeri
Summary: "Running through town to get a pizza for himself and his mother, Pinky unwittingly becomes covered in snow; now everyone thinks he is a walking snowman!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GORYum, Hyewon
Summary: One rainy day, a little boy is upset because he can't go out and play. His mom comes up with a way to keep him entertained - by drawing a picture of herself and him going outside, playing in the rain, and splashing in a giant puddle. They have so much fun drawing themselves that they decide to venture out and make the most of the rainy weather. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YUMGreen, Tim
Summary: After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLKorman, Gordon
Summary: Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory, but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Believing his long-absent father is missing and leaving clues behind through geocaching, Zig, thirteen, relies on his love of electronics, a garage sale GPS unit, and his best friend, Gianna, to search for answers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESBerkowitz, Leah Rachel
Summary: "A boy and his mom move to the city shortly before Sukkot and need to figure out where to build a sukkah and how to make new holiday traditions in an unfamiliar place"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BERLawrence, Iain
Summary: Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022