Bansch, Helga
Summary: "The animals are all asleep in their respective homes, until things get turned upside down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRAira, César
Summary: "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRBuxton, Kira Jane
Summary: "Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T., which was, of course, short for Sh*t Turd . . . When the world last checked-in with its beloved Cheeto addict, the planet had been overrun by flesh-hungry, zombie-like beasts, and all things natural had started staking claim to territory that had previously been inhabited by humans. And S.T., alongside his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUXGaiman, Neil
Summary: Enter the Dreaming again as the blockbuster audio adaptation of "the greatest epic in the history of comic books" continues. James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in this sequel to the #1 New York Times audio bestseller. Journey into a world of myths, imagination, and terror based on the best-selling DC comic books and graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman (returning as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GAISummary: A band of soldiers is on a war games expedition deep in the Scottish woods, but something deadly is waiting for them in the darkness. It becomes an army of werewolves versus an army of men and only one will survive to tell the tale.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY HORROR DOGScott, Cavan
Summary: Join Finn, Poe and BB-8 as they journey across the galaxy after the events of The Last Jedi on an important mission for the Resistance in the fourth book of the Star Wars: Choose Your Destiny series. With over twenty possible outcomes, readers will have to think on their feet to keep these Resistance heroes safe from the First Order!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney · Lucasfilm Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWCYDGombač, Žiga X.
Summary: "Everyone in the circus loves to perform--except for Adam, the very youngest member of the Von Trapeze family. Wherever Adam Von Trapeze's family circus performs they inspire audiences with their breathtaking feats. Grandma Antonia breathes fire, Uncle Artem builds dizzying human pyramids, and Papa Alexei and Mama Anastasia dance blindfolded on the tightrope. Only Adam, the youngest of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOMAtelier Sentō (Firm)
Summary: What happens when the living risk their lives to save the souls of the dead? Every summer, in an isolated Japanese village, a celebration known as the Festival of Shadows takes place. The villagers are entrusted to assist the troubled souls or "shadows" of those who died tragically, and to help them come to terms with their deaths and find eternal peace. Naoko, a young girl born in the village,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZMarshall, Linda Elovitz
Summary: Ixchel, a young Mayan girl, who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: An incident occurred at a wedding hall where Akiko Nagato was working part-time. The bride disappears just before the ceremony, and there is a corpse in the wedding dress. Akiko shows her curiosity and pursues the case. Youth humor mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKAFior, Manuele
Summary: "Celestia has become an outpost for criminals and other misfits, as well as a refuge for a group of young telepaths. Events push two of them, Dora and Pierrot, to flee the island and set sail to the mainland. There, they discover a world on the precipice of a metamorphosis, though also a world where adults are literally prisoners of their own fortresses, unintentionally preserving the "old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FIOParton, Dolly
Summary: "Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her."--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PARHigashino, Keigo
Summary: Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGFeign, Larry
Summary: South China coast, 1801: Sold as a child to a floating brothel, 26-year-old Yang has finally bought her freedom, only to be kidnapped by a brutal pirate gang and forced to marry their leader.Dragged through stormy seas and lawless bandit havens, Yang must stay scrappy to survive. She embeds herself in the dark business of piracy, carving out her role against the resistance of powerful pirate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Feign 2021Akagawa, Jirō
Summary: Ayumi, a second-year college student, was invited to a wedding reception by her senior at the club, Tamura, but it seems strange. On top of that, Tamura left behind saying, "It's just like that, but the bride is another woman," and went to Honeymoon. And murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC AKAHigashino, Keigo
Summary: The thickness of this work is second only to "Magic Night" and "White Night", and ranks tenth in the "Top 10 Works by Readers' Voted by Dongye". The characters in this work are the most in "East Wild World", and even the prime minister, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department and other government officials have appeared. The content also brings a sense of seriousness and tension rarely seen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kōdansha 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC HIGGroom, Winston
Summary: After feared outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa kidnaps his grandchildren, railroad tycoon John Shaughnessy, known as the Colonel, ventures to El Paso with his adopted son and a band of hired cowboys on a rescue mission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016