Martinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARWilkes, Ally
Summary: "In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis" Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self--and true gender--and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILFinn, A. J.
Summary: Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTHeikkilä, Cecilia
Summary: Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEICussler, Clive.
Summary: Dirk Pitt sets out on an expedition with his children along the treacherous Northwest Passage to find a silvery mineral, which will prove his theory and link the causes for the sudden deaths in British Columbia and the incidents between the United States and an ally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSSummary: Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion - a new breed of American soldiers. Based on the national best selling book by Evan Wright.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GENSummary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECussler, Clive.
Summary: An attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds is missing. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes bodies are found aboard, burned to a crisp. What is going on? And what does it have to do with an Italian submarine that disappeared in 1943, lost at sea? Or was she?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Cussler 2012Cussler, Clive.
Summary: "The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CusslerLester, David
Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 LESSummary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, this television program became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. In these episodes, Collinwood's surly caretaker, Matthew Morgan, informs Victoria Winters that he believes the ghost of Josette Collins and other spirits inhabit the estate. In an attempt to settle the controversy surrounding the manslaughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, this television program became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. In these episodes, when Victoria Winters searches the Old House for David Collins, she is abducted and held captive by Matthew Morgan, the Collinses' fugitive caretaker who is hiding following the death of family friend Bill Malloy. A massive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARCussler, Clive.
Summary: An anti-globalization activist learns how to artificially trigger a polar shift. He plans to use the event to jolt industrialized nations into corrective action. Unfortunately, unless NUMA Special Assignment Team can stop him, his "wake-up call" could annihilate the entire population of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSCussler, Clive.
Summary: When a series of unexplained deaths and international hostilities occur in the wake of a breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children investigate a mysterious silvery mineral with links to a fabled Northwest Passage expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSPilkington, Doris
Summary: Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black Aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books/Hyperion 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 994.04 PILAllende, Isabel.
Summary: When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ALLMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: "Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento." --contraportada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 MAR SPANISHLynch, Jim
Summary: A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYNHerrera, Yuri
Summary: "Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...
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Publisher / Publication Date: & Other Stories 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLAndrews, Lynn V.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books, Inc. 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.78 ANDBryan, Kinley
Summary: "It's 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream--to open a restaurant back home--but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves. In Sunny's Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Mug Press 2021