Vande Zande, Jeff
Summary: Rules of Order tells the story of Harvey Crowe, a community activist, who lives in what could be the last remaining high-rise building in a wrecked city. Cracks in the ground-floor apartments are appearing exponentially. The building's structural strength can't possibly hold the load it bears. Crowe works to inform tenants on the upper floors that the weight of their possessions could bring the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montag Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Detroit Muscle is a fearless examination of family and of loss, a picaresque novel about putting these shattered pieces of our lives together again - to examine them, to understand them, and to see how, if at all possible, we can move past them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. This novel unites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bottom Dog Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANCarrier, Michael
Summary: "The two women were at Whitefish Point in order to watch the migrating birds. But what they saw scared one of them to death. The author tells this story like Stephen King would. This book is not to be read if you want to sleep. It is also recommended that the reader not be alone when reading it."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich Village Ink, an imprint of Alistair Rapids Publishing 2017
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Summary: "This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil...only this time around her world looks a lot more like the one outside your window."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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Summary: They thought their task was an easy one -- take a week off, drive north through Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas, perhaps enjoy some Mackinaw fudge on the way, claim a fabulous Sugar Island inheritance, and then go back home. However, nothing ever comes easy for retired Chicago Homicide Detective Jack Handler, and his daughter Kate, a well-respected New York City homicide detective. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich Village Ink 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARBlade, Adam
Summary: "One boy's journey to help his village becomes a quest to save the kingdom. Strange things are happening in Tom's village. First, the horses were attacked. Then, the river dried up. Now, the last of the crops has mysteriously burned. Everyone is terrified. But Tom isn't afraid. He's always dreamed of a quest -- a real quest! -- and vows to go to the king and bring help for them. But Tom soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLABudge, Donald
Summary: When he wonders about the exact location of his butt, Morty travels around the world asking other animals to help him find the answer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUDSmith, Maudie
Summary: "When Jake's mom upcycles every last thing in the apartment, Jake begins to worry that the only thing left to change is... him!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing Ltd. 2022
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Summary: When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUGibby, Bayne.
Summary: A sweet rhyming story about a mother's love for her child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2013
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Summary: "In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUBCadier, Morgane de
Summary: "There are wonders all around us ... Why not go see what you can find? Every day, perched high up in her tree house, a girl surveys the distant forest through her binoculars. She knows every plant and animal. But look! A strange new tree appears, towering above all the others. Where did it come from? Is it really a tree? Intrigued, the girl sets off to take a closer look. Just to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Press 2022
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Summary: A novel inspired by the true story of Ohio's first female sheriff. When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel, the town sheriff, is killed, she vows to avenge his death. But then a widow arrives at her door, unaware that Daniel has been killed, inquiring about her missing daughter. Soon they realize Daniel was not the man they believed him to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONBab Bonde, Jessica
Summary: "The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BABCondie, Allyson Braithwaite.
Summary: "Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CONWhitethorne, Baje.
Summary: Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf 2001
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Summary: "In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life ... when ... a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving her community reeling"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLUBlume, Judy.
Summary: Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1971
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Summary: Seeking to avenge the murder of her true love while on a dredge ship searching for gold, fifteen-year-old captain Poe Blythe becomes the architect of new defenses designed to destroy her enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CONCollier, Nicole D.
Summary: It's hatching season and Jemison Elementary is buzzing about the arrival of the baby chicks. Fifth-grader Jillian must learn to speak and break free of her shell to enter her school's competition and keep her promise to her grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLBlume, Judy
Summary: Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Blume 1988Bauer, Joan
Summary: Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BAUBlume, Judy.
Summary: Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1975