Summary: Five (1951) Black and White 93 minutes Not Rated Starring: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee When a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. A pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a banker and an explorer seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last living human beings, they must work together. However, their clashing visions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CLAMatula, Christina
Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MATSacks, Marcy Goldberg
Summary: Jorge el curioso aprende a usar sus sentidos del olfato, del oído y del tacto para entrenar el mejor de sus sentidos: ¡el gusto para los caramelos de una piñata!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J Spanish CuriousKrensky, Stephen.
Summary: Jorge el curioso no quería derramar un vaso lleno con jugo de uva sobre la alfombra nueva. ¿Qué podría hacer un mono tan creativo como él para limpiarla?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH KRESummary: Svetla, a strong-willed widow, lives alone in a small Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border. She has recently lost her job as a teacher due to the lack of families with young children. One day, while hunting in a forest, she encounters an African refugee, Bamba, who is trying to reach Germany, and will bring about a dramatic turn in her life. Reluctantly, she offers him hospitality, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEASummary: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! Follow the adventures of this enthusiastic, optimistic sponge whose good intentions inevitably lead him and his friends into trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Mag, Call number: DVD JUV SPOAnderson, Natalie C.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDAuyeung, Pearl
Summary: "Once upon a morning in Hong Kong, in the alley of Tai Yuen Street, a girl is promised a mooncake with a double-yolk center ... the special mooncake seems like the only excitement on an otherwise boring day in the market where nothing changes ... until an exhausted stranger falls to his knees right in the street! He ran through forests, swam through rivers, and even stowed away on a ship, all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Seeboruth, Sumana
Summary: ¡¿Sopa verde?! ¡Guácala, no para mí! O podría ser... ¿deliciosa? ¡Ayudar a mami y mamá a cocinar le da a este niño la valentía de probar una nueva comida!--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SEETaddonio, Lea
Summary: It's not easy being the youngest of three kids, especially when you're a vampire who hasn't gotten his fangs yet. Colin isn't even allowed to sleep in a coffin yet and his big sisters tease him about being a baby. Fed up, he decides to run away, but the world isn't as kind to monsters outside of Shiverwood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TADMayer, Mercer
Summary: Little Critter celebrates fall by going to the Fall Festival, experiences a big storm, takes a trip to the firehouse, builds a snowman and feeds him snowball soup, searches for a missing triceratops bone at the museum, and helps a neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MEYSummary: Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong's go-to one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn't exempt Fong from social pressure to marry. Since nodding to Edward's proposal, she has been pushed beyond limits by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, and intrusive in-laws. What befuddles her further is the reappearance of Shuwei, a mainlander she's supposed to be divorced from out of a sham...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYKostova, Elizabeth
Summary: A "novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kostova 2017Hazlewood, Lee
Summary: Lee Hazlewood's tough-talkin' hit song (popularized by Nancy Sinatra) is adapted into a playful children's book about the inner life of a jealous cat. These boots are made for walking / And that's just what they'll do / One of these days these boots / Are gonna walk all over you. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' is an adorable story of friendship and family set against the backdrop of Lee...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Gregory, Nici
Summary: George and his sister Lotta have found a new slug friend named Speedy. They can't wait to introduce him to the family, but Speedy has other plans. He escapes! The whole family helps to bring their lost critter home. But is George and Lotta's jar really his home, or does Speedy belong outside with his fellow slugs?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berbay Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREFoxe, Steve
Summary: Grandma has taken Baby to a serene location overlooking Carnivore Cove to practice meditating. Baby is doing his best when--AWWW! A cute little bunny slug hops up to him. He wants to focus and meditate but he keeps getting distracted because teeny tiny cute things are his absolute weakness!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FOXSummary: Six-year-old Andy is thrilled when he gets a brand-new cheery Chucky doll for his birthday. But he quickly discovers that Chucky is possessed by the soul of a notorious serial killer who swiftly begins terrorizing Andy, his ill-fated babysitter and his disbelieving mom. And he doesn't stop there. Proving he's nobody to toy with, the demonic doll schemes to transfer his evil spirit out of its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Peterson, Coyote
Summary: "Coyote Peterson, YouTube star, animal enthusiast, and creator of the Brave Adventure series, has tracked down some of the world's most painfully stinging insects and chronicled getting stung by each of them on his YouTube channel. Coyote has saved the best -- or possibly the worst -- for last, and he's finally ready to share his experience with the most painful sting in the world: the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA 617.1 PETYogis, Jaimal
Summary: "When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YOGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction YogisQuinn, Jordan.
Summary: Eight-year-old Lucas, Prince of Wrenly, is eager to explore and Clara, daughter of the queen's seamstress, knows the kingdom well, so they team up to find a lost jewel and visit all of the land's main attractions as they search.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Summary: Layla and the Bots visit the Surfside Rescue Center, where they meet a dolphin named Splash, who will only eat when the music is playing, but is very picky about the music--so Layla and the Bots build a machine that uses the sound waves Splash communicates with to change the music.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FANKostova, Elizabeth
Summary: "From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOSDrago, Flavia Z.
Summary: Gustavo is good at doing all sorts of ghostly things: walking through walls, making objects fly, and glowing in the dark. And he loves almost nothing more than playing beautiful music on his violin. But Gustavo is shy, and some things are harder for him to do, like getting in a line to buy eye scream or making friends with other monsters. Whenever he tries getting close to them, he realizes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DRABán, Zsófia
Summary: "Perfect for anyone looking for a little more Nohoo (or "know-how") in your life, Zsófia Bán's mock-textbook, Night School: A Reader for Grownups covers all the important subjects, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French, complete with a hearty dose of irony. Bán's "lectures" tell of the travels of young Flaubert to Egypt with his friend Maxime, and includes a missive from Laika the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2019