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Penguin classicsAppelt, Kathi
Summary: In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm. sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC APPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC APPAhmed, Jamila
Summary: "In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AHMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHMHenry, Patti Callahan
Summary: "In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HENZusak, Markus
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: In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCZusak, Markus.
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: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ZUSBerry, Julie
Summary: The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Berry 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERForsyth, Kate
Summary: "Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the handsome but very poor fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. It is a time of tyranny and terror: Napoleon Bonaparte wants to conquer all of Europe, and Hesse-Cassel is one of the first kingdoms to fall. Forced to live under oppressive French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all, for the king of the land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DICTorres, Justin
Summary: "Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORAcevedo, Chantel
Summary: Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money - she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora - and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends, neighbors, and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell one last story so that eight women can keep both hope and themselves alive. Cuba, 1963. Hurricane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACEBoccaccio, Giovanni
Summary: Located in the Classics rotating display rack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCBoccaccio, Giovanni
Summary: Revised for the seven hundredth anniversary of the author's birth, this tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by telling stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013